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Michael Thomas Michael Thomas i(A50776 works by)
Born: Established: 1946 ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Michael Thomas is a highly successful film writer whose screenplays include Countryman, Burke and Wills and Scandal. Born in Australia, he began writing as a teenager in Sydney. He later moved to the United States.

He has written extensively for Rolling Stone and The Sunday Times, and divides his time between Sydney, Los Angeles and Wiltshire.

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Awards for Works

form y separately published work icon Backbeat ( dir. Iain Softley ) United Kingdom (UK) Germany : Channel Four Films Polygram Filmed Entertainment Scala Productions Fortbeam , 1994 7097456 1994 single work film/TV

'Story of the fifth Beatle, Stuart Sutcliffe, and the two most important people in his life: John Lennon and Astrid Kirchherr. It is a passionate and tragic love story set during the Beatles' wild months in Hamburg.'

Source: BFI (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/486566). (Sighted: 4/3/2014)
1995 shortlisted British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards — Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film
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