Peter Shaffer 1990. "Lettice and Lovage" also enabled Margaret Tyzack to win the award for best featured actress, and the production was nominated for best direction of a play, at the 1990 Tony Awards. Several of Shaffer's plays have been adapted to film, including "Five Finger Exercise" (1962), "The Royal Hunt of the Sun" (1969), "The Public Eye" (1962), from which he adapted the 1972 film "Follow Me!" (1972), "Equus" (1977), and "Amadeus" (1984), which won eight Academy Awards including Best Picture. Shaffer received two Academy Award nominations for adapting his plays "Equus" and "Amadeus" for the big screen. For writing the
Alan Moloney Alan Moloney Alan Moloney is an Irish film and television producer. In 2001, alongside Michael Colgan, Alan produced "Beckett on Film", a project aimed at making film version of all nineteen of Samuel Beckett's stage plays. Ten of the films were screened at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival and some shown on Channel 4. The series won the Best TV Drama award at the 6th The South Bank Show Award at the Savoy Theatre in London. In 2006, Moloney worked with Harold Pinter to produce a TV adaptation of the stage play "Celebration". In 2007, Moloney produced "", directed