Christopher Hampton

British playwrite, film and television screenwriter. Prizes for Christopher Hampton’s screenplays include an Oscar, two BAFTAs, a Writers’ Guild of America Award, the Prix Italia, a Special Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival’s Collateral Award for Best Literary Adaptation and Hollywood Screenwriter of the Year.

His many adaptations of books for the big screen include Dangerous Liaisons, A Dangerous Method, Atonement, The Quiet American, Imagining Argentina, The Secret Agent and most recently Adore, based on Doris Lessing’s The Grandmothers.