Editing David Hare (playwright) (section)

{{short description|English playwright}}
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| name             = David Hare
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'''Sir David Rippon Hare''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRSL}} (born 5 June 1947) is an English [[playwright]], [[screenwriter]] and [[theatre]] [[Theatre director|director]]. Best known for his stage work, Hare has also enjoyed great success with films, receiving two [[Academy Award]] nominations for [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]] for writing [[The Hours (film)|''The Hours'']] in 2002, based on [[The Hours (novel)|the novel]] by [[Michael Cunningham]], and [[The Reader (2008 film)|''The Reader'']] in 2008, based on [[The Reader (novel)|the novel]] by [[Bernhard Schlink]].

In the [[West End theatre|West End]], he had his greatest success with the plays'' [[Plenty (play)|Plenty]]'' (1978), which he adapted into [[Plenty (film)|a 1985 film]] starring [[Meryl Streep]], [[Racing Demon (play)|''Racing Demon'']] (1990), [[Skylight (play)|''Skylight'']] (1997), and ''[[Amy's View]]'' (1998). The four plays ran on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] in 1982–83, 1996, 1998 and 1999 respectively, earning Hare three [[Tony Award]] nominations for [[Tony Award for Best Play|Best Play]] for the first three and two [[Laurence Olivier Awards]] for [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play|Best New Play]]. His other notable projects on stage include ''A Map of the World'', ''[[Pravda (play)|Pravda]]'' (starring [[Anthony Hopkins]] at the [[Royal National Theatre]] in London), ''[[Murmuring Judges]]'', ''[[The Absence of War]]'', ''[[The Vertical Hour]]'', and his latest play ''[[Straight Line Crazy]]'' starring [[Ralph Fiennes]]. 

For the big and small screens, along with the Oscar-winning screenplays for the [[Stephen Daldry]] drama films ''[[The Hours (film)|The Hours]]'' (2002) and ''[[The Reader (2008 film)|The Reader]]'' (2008), he both wrote and directed the [[BBC]]'s much acclaimed ''[[Worricker Trilogy]]'' of films — ''[[Page Eight]]'' (2011), [[Turks & Caicos (film)|''Turks & Caicos'']] (2014), and ''[[Salting the Battlefield]]'' (2014) — as well as scripting television series for the BBC, [[Collateral (TV series)|''Collateral'']] (2018) and [[Roadkill (TV series)|''Roadkill'']] (2020).

In addition to his two Academy Award nominations, Hare has received three [[Golden Globe Award]] nominations, three Tony Award nominations and has won a [[British Academy Film Awards|BAFTA Award]], a [[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay]] and two Laurence Olivier Awards. He has also been awarded several critics' awards, such as the [[New York Drama Critics Circle Award]], and he received the [[Golden Bear (award)|Golden Bear]] in 1985.

Hare has been associate director of the National Theatre since 1984.