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Steven Knight (born 1959) is a British screenwriter and film director. Knight has written the screenplays for the films ''Closed Circuit'', ''Dirty Pretty Things'' and ''Eastern Promises'', and also directed as well as written the films ''Locke'' and ''Hummingbird'' (a.k.a. ''Redemption''). Knight has also written scripts for numerous British television programmes such as the British version of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' (and is also the series creator, the UK version being the inspiration for the US version), BBC's ''Commercial Breakdown'', ''The Detectives'' and others. ==Screenplays== Knight is best known for screenplays he wrote for the films ''Dirty Pretty Things'' and ''Eastern Promises''. His work on the screenplay for ''Dirty Pretty Things'' earned him the Edgar Award for ''Best Motion Picture Screenplay'' and London Film Critics Circle award for ''British Screenwriter of the Year''.〔(British Screenwriter of the Year ), ''London Film Critics Circle''. Accessed July 29, 2008.〕 The screenplay was also nominated for several other awards including the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay〔(76th Academy Awards Nominees and Winners ), ''Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences''. Accessed July 29, 2008.〕 and the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay.〔(Film Nominations 2002 ), ''British Academy of Film and Television Arts''. Accessed July 29, 2008.〕 Knight also wrote the screenplay for the 2013 film ''Closed Circuit,'' which was directed by John Crowley and which starred Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall. Knight also wrote a draft of a screenplay based on the book ''Shutter Island'' written by Dennis Lehane, but the draft that was used for the movie of the same name was written by Laeta Kalogridis.〔(Shutter Island ), ''Variety''. Accessed July 29, 2008.〕 Recent films based on screenplays that Knight has written include ''The Hundred-Foot Journey'' directed by Lasse Hallström, based on the book of the same name by Richard C. Morais, and starring Helen Mirren, ''Seventh Son'', an adventure story starring Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Djimon Hounsou, Kit Harington and Jason Scott Lee, as well as the film ''Pawn Sacrifice'', based on U.S. chess champion Bobby Fischer, with Tobey Maguire playing Fischer in the film. He wrote also the screenplay of ''World War Z II'', which will start shooting in October 2015.〔(‘World War Z’ Slate Wiped Clean )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steven Knight」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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