Peter Firth the film adaptation of "Equus". The film was only a moderate box-office success, but earned Firth a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe award in the same category. Further film work quickly followed, most notably Roman Polanski's "Tess" (1979). In May 1981, he appeared on Broadway again in Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus" as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, replacing Tim Curry. Shaffer had offered him the role in the original London production, but he was unavailable due to film commitments. Other film work has included roles in "Diamonds on Wheels" (1973); "When You Comin' Back, Red
Stage-to-film adaptation looking at a real location, finally gradually switching back to the Globe Theatre. On some occasions, playwrights re-write their stage dramas for the screen, as Peter Shaffer did for "Amadeus" (1984), and as Peter Morgan did with "Frost/Nixon" (2008). Shaffer's screenplay made much use of camera movements and scenery that could only be suggested on-stage, as did Morgan with "Frost/Nixon". For "Amadeus", Shaffer even added scenes and heavily revised others for his original creation to take advantage of the medium. The scene in which the ill Mozart dictates his "Requiem Mass" to Salieri, while his imagined music is heard on