Tom Stoppard

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1937 age 0

   Born

2. 1985 age 48

   CreditBrazilscreenwriter

3. 1987 age 50

   CreditEmpire of the Sunscreenwriter

4. 1989 age 52

   CreditIndiana Jones and the Last Crusadescreenwriter

5. 1998 age 61

   CreditShakespeare in Lovescreenwriter

6. 2012 age 75

   CreditAnna Kareninascreenwriter

7. 2025 age 88

   Died

• SSSteven Spielberg2 titles
• JWJohn Williams2 titles
• MKMichael Kahn2 titles
• MMMenno Meyjes2 titles
• JBJohn Bradley1 title
• JPJonathan Pryce1 title
• JGJulian Glover1 title
• RARoger Ashton-Griffiths1 title
• PVPeter Vaughan1 title
• JJJoanna Johnston1 title

• Children

  • ESEd Stoppard

• Influenced by

  • HJHenry James

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Parents, Siblings, Studied under, Taught.

• It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable … it's better to be quotable than honest.

  Tom Stoppard, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Most of the propositions I’m interested in have been kidnapped and dressed up by academic philosophy, but they are in fact the kind of proposition which would occur to any intelligent person in his bath. They're not "academic" questions — they're simply questions which have been given academic status … Philosophy can be reduced to a small number of questions which can be battered about most bars most nights.

  Tom Stoppard, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.

  Tom Stoppard, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I began my talk by saying that I had not written my plays for purposes of discussion. At once, I felt a ripple of panic run through the hall. I suddenly realised why. To everyone present, discussion was the whole point of drama. That was why the faculty had been endowed — that was why all those buildings had been put up! I had undermined the entire reason for their existence.

  Tom Stoppard, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

  Tom Stoppard, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I am relieved. At least we can still count on self interest as a predictable factor.…I suppose it’s the last to go.

  Tom Stoppard, CC BY-SA 4.0