The Update - February 14, 2017
Luke Davies
Australian screenwriter, novelist, poet, and 2016 Porter Prize judge, Luke Davies has won a BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Lion (Transmission Films), starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, and Nicole Kidman. After being commissioned to write the screenplay, Davies travelled around India with Saroo Brierley, the author of the 2013 book on which the film is based.
‘It’s very much pinch-yourself material on a daily basis,’ said Davies in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, ‘You live your life one step at a time and all these things happen.’ Lion has been nominated for six Academy Awards, including for best Adapted Screenplay, and was reviewed in ABR Arts by Tim Byrne in January.
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