Who wrote the 2015 comedy-drama film directed by the director of the winner of Academy Award for Best Picture in 1998?
John Madden (director) John Philip Madden ( ; born 8 April 1949) is an English director of theatre, film, television, and radio. He is known for directing "Shakespeare in Love" (1998), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. He has also gained recognition for directing "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" (2011) and its sequel "The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" (2015).
Simon Birch Simon Birch is a 1998 American comedy-drama film loosely based on "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving and was directed and written for the screen by Mark Steven Johnson. The film stars Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, Jim Carrey, Ashley Judd and Oliver Platt. It omitted much of the latter half of the novel and altered the ending.