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An Education

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Hornby

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…screenplay for the 2009 film An Education, based on a Granta magazine essay by British journalist Lynn Barber, for which Hornby received an Oscar nomination. He also wrote the screenplays for the films Wild (2014), based on Cheryl Strayed’s inspirational memoir about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, and Brooklyn (2015),…
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Mulligan

In Carey Mulligan
…Greatest and the coming-of-age story An Education. In the latter movie her luminous portrayal of a teenage girl who is seduced by a man in his 30s earned an Academy Award nomination and drew comparisons to Audrey Hepburn. Mulligan then played the daughter of Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) in Oliver…
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Thompson

In Emma Thompson
…1960s England: the coming-of-age drama An Education, in which she portrayed a boarding-school headmistress, and the rock-and-roll-themed comedy Pirate Radio.
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