Sir Christopher James Hampton is a British playwright, screenwriter, translator and film director.
28 Facts About Christopher Hampton
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Christopher Hampton is best known for his play Les Liaisons Dangereuses based on the novel of the same name and the film adaptation.
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Christopher Hampton has thrice received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay: for Dangerous Liaisons, Atonement and The Father ; winning for the former and latter.
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Christopher Hampton translated the plays The Seagull, God of Carnage, The Father, and The Height of the Storm.
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Christopher Hampton wrote the books and lyrics for musical Sunset Boulevard and its revival in 2016.
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Christopher Hampton received two Tony Awards for Book of a Musical and Best Original Score.
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From 1964, Christopher Hampton read German and French at New College, Oxford, as a Sacher Scholar.
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Christopher Hampton graduated with a starred First Class Degree in 1968.
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Christopher Hampton became involved in the theatre while at Oxford University.
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Christopher Hampton sent the work to the play agent Peggy Ramsay, who interested William Gaskill in it.
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The play was performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London, and soon transferred to the Comedy Theatre; in 1966, Christopher Hampton was the youngest writer in the modern era to have a play performed in the West End.
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Christopher Hampton adapted this play for Richard Attenborough and Bryan Forbes, but a film version was never made.
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From 1968 to 1970, Christopher Hampton worked as the Resident Dramatist at the Royal Court Theatre, and as the company's literary manager.
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Christopher Hampton continued to write plays: Total Eclipse, about the French poets and lovers Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, was first performed in 1967 and at the Royal Court in 1968, but it was not well received at the time.
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Christopher Hampton's agent told him after this success: "You've got a choice: you can write the same play over and over for the next 30 years" or, alternatively, "you can decide to do something completely different every time".
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Christopher Hampton told her that he was writing a play about the "extermination of the Brazilian Indians in the 1960s".
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Christopher Hampton's first produced film adaptation, of Ibsen's A Doll's House, was directed by Patrick Garland, and stars Anthony Hopkins and Claire Bloom.
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Christopher Hampton won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his screen adaptation of his play Dangerous Liaisons, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich, and Michelle Pfeiffer.
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Christopher Hampton worked on Carrington for 18 years, writing multiple drafts.
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Christopher Hampton went on to direct the feature film Carrington, starring Emma Thompson and Jonathan Pryce.
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Christopher Hampton was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1999 Birthday Honours for services to literature.
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Christopher Hampton both wrote and directed Imagining Argentina, his adaptation of the 1987 novel by Lawrence Thornton.
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In 2007, Christopher Hampton was nominated for a second Academy Award for his screenplay and adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel Atonement, directed by Joe Wright and starring James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, and Saoirse Ronan.
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Since the 1990s, Christopher Hampton has created the English translations of the works of French dramatists Yasmina Reza and Florian Zeller.
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Christopher Hampton translated Reza's God of Carnage, which was the third-longest running Broadway play in the 2000s, playing 24 premieres and 452 regular performances.
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God of Carnage actors James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden, joined Philip Glass, Phillip Noyce and a host of other artists in a short documentary celebrating their Tony Award success and Mr Christopher Hampton's 50 published plays and screenplays.
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In 2020, Christopher Hampton served as screenwriter and executive producer for The Singapore Grip, an international TV mini-series exploring the Japanese invasion of Singapore during WWII.
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Christopher Hampton was knighted in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to drama.