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Daldry has clearly found his ideal collaborators, too: Finn; screenwriter (and playwright) Lee Hall; and cinematographer Brian Tufano, the British veteran responsible for Shallow Grave, Trainspotting and East is East.
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Actually, there is so much Gatiss looming on TV, especially on BBC4, that by November viewers may well be sick of the Sedgefield-born novelist, actor, screenwriter and League of Gentlemen star.
The screenwriter Jimmy McGovern has added his voice to the class debate within the entertainment industry, saying that he struggles to find actors who can play working-class roles.
Other British nominees include Bill Condon for screenwriter of the year for Gods and Monsters.
All the smaller roles are neatly filled, particularly Scarlett Johansson's Leigh and James Darcy's Tony Perkins, the latter almost eerily resembling the original; plus Kurtwood Smith as the fuming head of the censor's office and Ralph Macchio as screenwriter Joseph Stephano.
Pinter, who has had huge success as a screenwriter says that, "words are his (miller's) weapon", implying that words alone are not enough in Hollywood.
This is a great premise for a movie, and the scenes in which the unstoppable force of Walt Disney meets the immovable object of PL Travers are terrific – as are those in which she is driven around by a needlessly chirpy chauffeur (Paul Giamatti), and faces down screenwriter Don DaGradi Bradley Whitfordd) and songwriting brothers Robert and Richard Sherman (BJ Novak and Jason Schwartzman).
Peter Moffat, the Bafta award-winning screenwriter of Silk, said: "In a television era when too many documentaries are essentially freak shows written, shot and edited to ask an audience to laugh at people with mental health issues, writers of television drama have a special responsibility to work against stereotyping and to create characters who are complex and engaging".
Like Lena Dunham's Girls but more realistic and with black women in, Guinevere Turner (later to make her name as the screenwriter of American Psycho) plays the cool 90s New York dyke in back-to-front baseball cap and big boots trying to get laid.
