In addition to winning a BAFTA for the television drama '' See No Evil : The Moors Murders '' in 2007 , Pope was also nominated in 2001 for '' My Beautiful Son '' , and again in 2004 for '' Dirty Filthy Love '' . In 2004 he appeared as himself in an episode of '' The South Bank Show '' . Pope and Steve Coogan were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 86th Academy Awards for writing '' Philomena '' starring Judi Dench . Pope wrote the screenplay for '' Stan & Ollie '' ( 2018 ) , a biographical comedy-drama film based on the lives of the comedy double act Laurel and Hardy and starring Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy . It premiered in October 2018 at the BFI London Film Festival and was released in the United States on 28 December 2018 and in the United Kingdom on 11 January 2019
86th Academy Awards
86th Academy Awards
Jeff Pope