The prizes keep rolling in for Slumdog Millionaire, based upon Vikas Swarup's novel Q&A. At Saturday's Writers Guild of America awards ceremony, Simon Beaufoy took the best adapted screenplay honor, Variety reported. On the TV side, Kirk Ellis won WGA's long form adaptation award for HBO's John Adams, based on David McCullough's biography.
Slumdog Millionaire also emerged as the top winner at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards. The Guardian noted that the film took seven prizes, including best movie and best director (Danny Boyle). Beaufoy picked up another best adapted screenplay honor as well.
Other book-to-film adaptations winning BAFTAs were The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, based on a story by F. Scott Fitzgerald (three awards, though none in major categories), and The Reader, based on Bernhard Schlink's novel (Kate Winslet for best actress).