Peter Shaffer screenplay for "Equus", he was nominated for the 1977 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar but the award went to Alvin Sargent, who wrote the screenplay for "Julia". For writing the screenplay for "Amadeus", Shaffer received both the 1984 Best Screenplay Golden Globe and the 1984 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar. Shaffer was homosexual but did not write explicitly about it. His boyfriend Robert Leonard died in 1990. Shaffer died on June 6, 2016, at the age of ninety while on a trip to the south-west of Ireland. He co-wrote three detective novels with his brother Anthony Shaffer under the pseudonym "Peter Antony".
Peter Biziou Brian", "Time Bandits" and "Pink Floyd - The Wall". Biziou won the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Alan Parker's film "Mississippi Burning". He received a further BAFTA nomination for Peter Weir's film "The Truman Show". Peter Biziou Peter Biziou BSC (born 8 August 1944 in Wales) is a British cinematographer. Peter Biziou is the son of special effects cameraman and cinematographer Leon Bijou best known for shooting "Foxes" in 1980 . He began his career in the mid-1960s where he worked on short films by Norman J. Warren and Robert Freeman. In 1973 he began his collaboration with