Screenwriter Peter Straughan Wins 2024 Golden Globe Award
Straughan also adapted the forthcoming Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light
Screenwriter Peter Straughan won in the Screenplay for a Motion Picture category for the film Conclave at the 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards. “I am just one pure ball of gratitude squeezed into a borrowed tux” Straughan told the crowd at the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, which took place Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025.
Straughan is also the screenwriter of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, coming to MASTERPIECE on PBS March 23, 2025, 9/8. The eagerly awaited historical drama, a sequel to Wolf Hall, continues the spellbinding story of royal power broker Thomas Cromwell during the cruel and capricious reign of Henry VIII and is based on the final novel in Hilary Mantel’s multi award-winning trilogy. Straughan adapted Wolf Hall which debuted on MASTERPIECE in 2015, and won a Golden Globe Award in 2016 in the Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television category.
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light picks up in May, 1536 after the beheading of Anne Boleyn and follows the last several years of Thomas Cromwell’s life, completing his journey from self-made man to the most feared and influential figure of his time. Academy Award® winner Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies, Ready Player One, Dunkirk) returns as Thomas Cromwell, and Emmy® Award winner Damian Lewis (Billions, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, Homeland) is back as King Henry VIII. Academy Award® nominee Jonathan Pryce (Slow Horses, The Two Popes, The Wife) portrays Cardinal Wolsey, and Kate Phillips (Miss Scarlet, Peaky Blinders) plays Henry’s third wife Jane Seymour.
Directed by Peter Kosminsky, Straughan says Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light will be worth the wait. “Peter’s done a fantastic job,” Straughan told Deadline. “It was a long time coming. Hilary [Mantel] took a while to write it, and then I took a long time to adapt it. But I love it. It’s the kind of thing that’s increasingly difficult to get made in this day and age.”
Straughan has become a successful and well-regarded screenwriter over the last two decades for projects such as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, based on the novel by John Le Carré’. Straughan’s adaptation was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Screenplay category. Straughan is also known for Frank starring Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson, and Our Brand is Crisis with Sandra Bullock.
