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Lesley Riddoch takes on Alan Cumming in big day for The National's Euros sweepstake

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Scots Bafta-winning filmmaker wants Tom Cruise for new role - as a triathlete

Stirling-born Lesley Paterson is also a former world champion in the gruelling athletics event and attended the Oscars last month.

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Scots Oscar winner says award was “a dream come true” as she receives support from back home

Stirling’s Oscar winner says the support she received from the city has been “incredible” after the film she helped write claimed a much-coveted Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Lesley Paterson was one of the screen writers for the

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St Andrews sound engineer picks up Oscar for work on Tom Cruise blockbuster

THE work of Scots in the film industry has been recognised during the biggest award ceremony of the year: the Oscars.

The National (Scotland)

Full Oscar winners list including glory for Scots screenwriter as film bags four gongs

World champion triathlete Lesley Paterson co-wrote the Netflix adaptation of All Quiet On The Western Front.

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OPINION - The Leader podcast: Will All Quiet on the Western Front win big at the Oscars?

The British screenwriter of Netflix’s nine-time Oscar nominated film 16 years in the making…

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Daniel Radcliffe was up for lead role in Oscars-tipped All Quiet on the Western Front

The Harry Potter star was approached to take a starring part in the film, but the offer fell through when producers decided he was not a good fit for the war epic

Daily Mirror

An antiwar epic became an awards darling. Why Germans don't quite see it the same way

The film with this awards season's most unexpected trajectory may be "All Quiet on the Western Front," an adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's 1928 German-language novel set during World War I. After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and launching on Netflix in October, the film went…

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Scots writer of Netflix epic war movie claims BAFTA title as film wins SEVEN awards

Stirling-born screenwriter Lesley Paterson was this celebrating after the film she adapted scooped seven BAFTAs. Lesley claimed the award for best screenplay for her work on Netflix war epic All Quiet on the Western Front. Earlier this month we tol

Daily Record

All Quiet On The Western Front screenwriter who fought to have film made ‘frustrated’ speech cut from BAFTAs broadcast

Olympian-turned-writer Lesley Paterson spent 15 years trying to get the film off the ground before it was finally made

Evening Standard

Scots find success at this year's Bafta awards

SCOTS Lesley Paterson and Charlotte Wells found success at Sunday evening’s Baftas.

The National (Scotland)

UK Bafta success confined mostly to achievements behind camera

The winners so far include professional triathlete turned screenwriter Lesley Paterson.

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Meet Lesley Paterson, the triathlete who wrote Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front

Paterson competed with broken bones to get her Oscar-winning film made: ‘I find meaning through suffering’

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‘Obsessive? This is who I am!’ How Lesley Paterson funded her 16-year Oscar dream – by winning triathlons

Paterson’s debut film, All Quiet on the Western Front, is up for nine Academy Awards. It could not have been made without her earnings as an athlete – and the drive that made her swim a mile with a broken shoulder

The National (Scotland)

Scots Oscar nominee on her journey from sport to screenwriting

GROWING up, Lesley Paterson loved ET. “Everyone has that film that made them fall in love with the movies and that was mine,” she says.

Evening Standard

Who is Lesley Paterson? The life of the champion triathlete turned screenwriter tipped for Oscar glory

All Quiet on the Western Front was only made thanks to the endurance of Lesley Paterson

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Scots writer of Netflix epic war film says Oscars nomination is a 'dream come true'

Stirling woman Lesley Paterson will attend the 95th Academy Awards after the film she co-wrote - Netflix war epic All Quiet on the Western Front - was nominated for nine Oscars.

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