Adapted Screenplay

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy
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ACADEMY AWARDS HISTORY

This is the second Academy Award nomination for Simon Beaufoy. He was previously nominated for:

  • THE FULL MONTY (1997) -- Nominee, Writing (Original)

FILM SYNOPSIS

An eighteen-year-old from the slums of Mumbai finds himself competing on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," where the questions he must answer offer a look back at his earlier life. The show's host, however, insists that he must be cheating and takes steps to force young Jamal to admit that a boy from such an impoverished background could not possibly possess the knowledge necessary to win the show's top prize.
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