[DOC] [TLE] BBC News | The Oscars 1999 | Tom Stoppard: A bard for our times? [PAR] Mar 22, 1999 ... He left after six years to write full-time and began a stage play, A Walk on the ... 
One joke he included in the script of Shakespeare in Love is an ironic ... Stoppard 
was awarded the CBE in 1978 and was knighted in 1997. [DOC] [TLE] All about Oscar - Britannica [PAR] He began to write plays in 1960 after moving to London. ... In 1999 the 
screenplay for Shakespeare in Love (1998), cowritten by ... He was knighted in 
1997. [DOC] [TLE] Tom Stoppard - Wikipedia [PAR] Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSL (born Tom Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a 
British playwright and screenwriter, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically 
for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence .... Stoppard wrote short radio 
plays in 195354 and by 1960 he had completed his ..... The Guardian 30 
November 1999. [DOC] [TLE] 'You can't help being what you write' - The Guardian [PAR] Sep 5, 2008 ... ... seven-Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love (1999), which he co-wrote, ... He 
accepted a knighthood in 1997, and the Order of Merit in 2000. ... "He's a very 
impersonal writer; his plays are not confessional - he .... Writing in Talk magazine 
in 1999, he expressed grief both for a lost father and a missing past. [DOC] [TLE] Tom Stoppard Is The Real Thing - tribunedigital-orlandosentinel [PAR] May 9, 2002 ... Audiences might be forgiven for believing that Henry, the writer-hero of Tom ... 
But Stoppard, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Shakespeare in Love, resists the 
... "The events of my life are not in my work," he told a British interviewer in 1999. 
... The plays have brought him multiple honors -- the knighthood,... [DOC] [TLE] The long voyage of Sir Tom - Telegraph [PAR] Jun 29, 2002 ... Tom Stoppard's modest idea for a play grew to a trilogy with 70 characters. ... 
television and film, imagining that at the very least he'll point to his knighthood (
1997) or his Oscar-winning screenplay for Shakespeare in Love (1999). ... The 
Coast of Utopia "is by far the most arduous thing I've done", he reveals. [DOC] [TLE] The heart in the closet | Film | The Guardian [PAR] Jan 17, 1999 ... Sunday 17 January 1999 11.15 EST Last modified on Thursday 18 March ... He 
leaves it to the actors to provide a heart and soul and history for his characters. ... 
Like all the very best playwrights, including Shakespeare, Stoppard is a .... 
expected to win a clutch of Oscars, Shakespeare In Love is a great,... [DOC] [TLE] The Real Thing Written by Tom Stoppard - Bench Theatre [PAR] He began writing plays for radio and television in 1964 and enjoyed his first 
major ... In 1999, he won the Best Screenplay Oscar for for 'Shakespeare in Love' 
which he ... Stoppard was awarded the OBE in 1978, he was knighted in 1997 
and... [DOC] [TLE] Pirandello's Henry IV Playwrights - Remy Bumppo Field Guide [PAR] After quitting school at 17, Stoppard began his career as a writer when he found 
... an Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1999 for Shakespeare in Love, co-
written with Marc Norman, and a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II in 1997. [DOC] [TLE] Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Written by Tom Stoppard [PAR] He began writing plays for radio and television in 1964 and enjoyed his first 
major ... In 1999, he won the Best Screenplay Oscar for for 'Shakespeare in Love' 
which he ... Stoppard was awarded the OBE in 1978, he was knighted in 1997 
and... [DOC] [TLE] PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES RICHARD EYRE (Director) He has ... [PAR] He was producer of Play for Today from 1978 to ... He was Director of the 
National Theatre from 1988  1997 where his productions included ... His films 
include The Dresser (Academy Award Nomination for Best ... Screenplay and 
Humanitas Prize

Question: In 1997 he was knighted for writing plays; in 1999 he was Oscared for "Shakespeare In Love"
Answer: Tom Stoppard