Best Original Screenplay2001 Film Fan Awards73rd Academy Awards
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Billy Elliot (2000)

Ceremony Year: 2001Category: Best Original ScreenplayReleased: 2000
Nominated Talent & Credits
Lee Hall— Written by Lee Hall
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County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.

Historical Academy Record
WRITING (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) — 73rd Academy Awards (2001)

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