---
name: "Tom Stoppard"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tom-stoppard"
fi1m_id: "tom-stoppard"
imdb_id: "nm0001779"
tmdb_id: 372
wikidata_id: "Q294773"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "3 July 1937"
died: "29 November 2025"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-01T21:48:05.171687+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Tom Stoppard

## Identity

Tom Stoppard

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tom-stoppard
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tom-stoppard
- **IMDb ID:** nm0001779
- **TMDB ID:** 372
- **Wikidata ID:** Q294773
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stoppard, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q294773, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001779/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/372

Writer. Born 3 July 1937 in Zlín, Czechoslovakia. Died 29 November 2025.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 3 July 1937, Zlín, Czechoslovakia
- **Died:** 29 November 2025
- **Active:** 1985–2012
- **Also known as:** Tomáš Sträussler
- **Frequently works with:** [Miranda Richardson](https://film.one/person/miranda-richardson.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 1 nominated)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 77, as writer, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 82 (2), 1990s 79 (1), 2010s 72 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 77 to 70 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, History 3, Comedy 2, Romance 2, Science Fiction 1, War 1
- **Screen time:** 9 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $435m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stoppard, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q294773, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001779/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/372

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Parade's End*](https://film.one/tv/parades-end.md) (80)
- **Apple TV:** [*Shakespeare in Love*](https://film.one/film/shakespeare-in-love.md) (79)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Tom Stoppard is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter, also credited as Tomáš Sträussler. He was born in Zlín, Czechoslovakia, and moved to England as a child after the Second World War. He began his career as a journalist in Bristol before writing his first plays in the early 1960s.

Stoppard is known for stage works including *Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead* (1966) and screenplays such as *Brazil* (1985), *Empire of the Sun* (1987), *Shakespeare in Love* (1998, co-written with Marc Norman), *Enigma* (2001) and *Anna Karenina* (2012). He directed the film adaptation of *Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead* (1990). He received an Academy Award for the *Shakespeare in Love* screenplay and multiple Tony Awards for his plays.

Stoppard died at his home in Dorset, England, on 29 November 2025, aged 88.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com, cbsnews.com, reuters.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Anna Karenina* (2012), Fi1m 64, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/anna-karenina.md)
- *Parade's End* (2012), Fi1m 80, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/parades-end.md)
- *Shakespeare in Love* (1998), Fi1m 79, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/shakespeare-in-love.md)
- *Empire of the Sun* (1987), Fi1m 81, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/empire-of-the-sun.md)
- *Brazil* (1985), Fi1m 83, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/brazil.md)

## Complete filmography (42)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt* (2022), Writer
- *A Separate Peace* (2020), Writer
- *Arcadia* (2018), Writer
- *Tulip Fever* (2017), Screenplay
- *National Theatre Live: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead* (2017), Theatre Play
- *National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem* (2015), Theatre Play
- *Anna Karenina* (2012), Screenplay — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/anna-karenina.md)
- *Parade's End* (2012), series, Writer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/parades-end.md)
- *The Merchant of Venice* (2005), Writer
- *The Lion King 1½* (2004), Theatre Play
- *The Invention of Love* (2001), Writer
- *Enigma* (2001), Screenplay
- *Shakespeare in Love* (1998), Writer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/shakespeare-in-love.md)
- *Poodle Springs* (1998), Screenplay
- *The Fifteen Minute Hamlet* (1995), Author
- *Billy Bathgate* (1991), Screenplay
- *Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead* (1991), Director, Writer, Theatre Play
- *The Russia House* (1990), Screenplay
- *Largo Desolato* (1990), Writer
- *The Dog It Was That Died* (1989), Writer
- *Empire of the Sun* (1987), Screenplay — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/empire-of-the-sun.md)
- *Brazil* (1985), Screenplay — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/brazil.md)
- *Squaring the Circle* (1984), Writer
- *On the Razzle* (1983), Writer
- *The Human Factor* (1979), Screenplay
- *Every Good Boy Deserves Favour* (1979), Writer
- *Despair* (1978), Screenplay
- *Professional Foul* (1977), Writer
- *BBC2 Play of the Week* (1977), series, Writer
- *Travesties* (1976), Writer
- *Three Men in a Boat* (1975), Screenplay
- *The Boundary* (1975), Writer
- *The Romantic Englishwoman* (1975), Writer
- *Playhouse* (1974), series, Theatre Play
- *Neutral Ground* (1968), Writer
- *ITV Playhouse* (1967), series, Writer
- *Another Moon Called Earth* (1967), Writer
- *One Pair of Eyes* (1967), series, Actor
- *Thirty-Minute Theatre* (1965), series, Writer
- *Knock on Any Door* (1965), series, Writer
- *In-Side-Out* (1964), Actor
- *A Christmas Carol*, Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![Tom Stoppard](https://film.one/media/person/87675/gallery-065e2ec9678f.jpg) Tom Stoppard — Philip Romano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Tom_Stoppard.jpg/1280px-Tom_Stoppard.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Library Walk in New York City (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/87675/gallery-6a6fa0608838.jpg) Library Walk in New York City (2014) — Lesekreis, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Library_Walk_10.JPG/1280px-Library_Walk_10.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Tom Stoppard, playwright, with wife Miriam Stoppard, NYC. Part of: Bernard Gotfryd photograph collection (Library of Congress). (1984)](https://film.one/media/person/87675/gallery-b26f4cd36599.jpg) Tom Stoppard, playwright, with wife Miriam Stoppard, NYC. Part of: Bernard Gotfryd photograph collection (Library of Congress). (1984) — Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Miriam_and_Tom_Stoppard%2C_NYC.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Il regista Tom Stoppard alla Mostra del Cinema di Venezia del 1990](https://film.one/media/person/87675/gallery-34c8648bf2d4.jpg) Il regista Tom Stoppard alla Mostra del Cinema di Venezia del 1990 — Gorup de Besanez, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Stoppard_01.jpg/1280px-Stoppard_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Il regista Tom Stoppard alla Mostra del Cinema di Venezia del 1990](https://film.one/media/person/87675/gallery-3be832e22ab8.jpg) Il regista Tom Stoppard alla Mostra del Cinema di Venezia del 1990 — Gorup de Besanez, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Stoppard_01_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Il regista Tom Stoppard alla Mostra del Cinema di Venezia del 1990](https://film.one/media/person/87675/gallery-81c84af04908.jpg) Il regista Tom Stoppard alla Mostra del Cinema di Venezia del 1990 — Gorup de Besanez, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Stoppard_02.jpg/1280px-Stoppard_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- 1999: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (won), for *Shakespeare in Love*
- 1986: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Brazil*

### Other awards — 11 won, 5 nominated

- Tony Award for Best Play 2023: Tony Award for Best Play (won), for *Leopoldstadt*
- European Film Award for Best Screenwriter 2013: European Film Award for Best Screenwriter (nominated), for *Anna Karenina*
- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2013: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *Anna Karenina*
- Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement 2013: Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement (won)
- PEN Pinter Prize 2013: PEN Pinter Prize (won)
- Praemium Imperiale 2009: Praemium Imperiale (won)
- Dan David Prize 2008: Dan David Prize (won)
- Tony Award for Best Play 2008: Tony Award for Best Play (nominated), for *Rock 'n' Roll*
- Bodley Medal 2004: Bodley Medal (won)
- Tony Award for Best Play 2001: Tony Award for Best Play (nominated), for *The Invention of Love*
- Order of Merit 2000: Order of Merit (won)
- Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay 1999: Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay (won), for *Shakespeare in Love*
- Knight Bachelor 1997: Knight Bachelor (won)
- Tony Award for Best Play 1995: Tony Award for Best Play (nominated), for *Arcadia*
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire 1978: Commander of the Order of the British Empire (won)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 1972: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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