Editing Peter Shaffer (section)

===Screen work===
Several of Shaffer's plays have been adapted to film, including ''[[Five Finger Exercise (film)|Five Finger Exercise]]'' (1962); ''[[The Royal Hunt of the Sun (film)|The Royal Hunt of the Sun]]'' (1969); ''The Public Eye'' (1962), from which he adapted the 1972 film ''[[Follow Me! (1972 film)|Follow Me!]]'' (1972); ''[[Equus (film)|Equus]]'' (1977); and ''[[Amadeus (film)|Amadeus]]'' (1984), which won eight [[Academy Awards]], including [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]].

For writing the screenplay for ''Equus'', Shaffer was nominated for an Academy Award for his adapted screenplay, but the award went to [[Alvin Sargent]], who wrote the screenplay for ''[[Julia (1977 film)|Julia]]''. For writing the screenplay for ''Amadeus'', Shaffer was awarded a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award.

[[File:Grave of Peter Shaffer in Highgate Cemetery.jpg|thumb|Grave of Robert Leonard and Peter Shaffer in [[Highgate Cemetery]]]]