Simon Beaufoy's SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE scooped 8 OSCAR wins at the 81st Annual Academy Awards in 2009; including Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film.

Simon's recent projects include;  adaptations of JOURNEY TO THE RIVER SEA (Kudos Film & TV) and the cult novels THE RAW SHARK TEXTS for Blueprint Pictures/Film 4 and SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN for Kudos Film & TV/ BBC Films.

In 2009 he completed BURN UP, his climate change drama for Kudos/BBC and MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY (Kudos/Focus).

Previously Simon’s work includes: THE FULL MONTY.

His first full-length feature, it filmed in 1996 as a Redwave Productions film for Fox Searchlight and was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Film; the Writers' Guild of America award for Best Original Screenplay; and Golden Globe Best Picture and Golden Satellite Best Original Screenplay awards; and for 11 BAFTA awards (of which it won - among others - Best Film and Daily Mail Readers' Award for Best Film). It won The Evening Standard Best Film award and audience awards at many film festivals around the world and in 2001 was voted the Best English Film Ever by Empire Online readers. The screenplay is published by Screen Press Books.

His next feature AMONG GIANTS (a triangular love story about pylon painters in Yorkshire, written before MONTY) was produced by Kudos Productions and released in 1999.

His third THE DARKEST LIGHT filmed in 1998 for his own company, Footprint Films backed by Pathé, with Simon co-directing (with Bille Eltrincham) from his own script.

YASMIN, the first feature film to be funded by Screen Yorkshire’s Production Fund was filmed in Keighley in 2003 and tells the story of a British Muslim woman caught in a post- September 11 nightmare when her Pakistani-born husband is falsely imprisoned as a terrorist suspect.

His low budget DV film, THIS IS NOT A LOVE SONG was shot in Scotland in 2004 to great critical acclaim.

Simon is a graduate of Bournemouth Film School where he produced RELEASE ME, a half-hour drama premiered on BBC 2 which won five awards at international film festivals; he subsequently made a half-hour documentary SHATTERED DREAM, a co-production with John Gau Productions, broadcast on BBC 2's 40 Minutes in 1993.Simon's first script CELLO won the Euston Films Best Script Award at the 1991 Fuji Film Competition. PHYSICS FOR FISH, co-written and co-directed with Bille Eltringham, was produced for BBC 2's 10 x 10 series and was transmitted in December '93. In June '96 Simon co-directed with Bille Eltringham a short, YELLOW, which he and Bille co-wrote for Footprint/BFI/Channel 4. In October '96 he co-directed (again with Bille Eltringham) CLOSER for Footprint/BBC/Channel 4, as part of the Brief Encounters strand.

Simon is represented by Charlotte Knight and in the US by Susan Landau.