Keighley-born screenwriter Simon Beaufoy has won the best adapted screenplay Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire.
The film swept the board at the Oscars, winning eight awards, including best film and best director.
The rags-to-riches story of an orphan from the Mumbai slums who wins the Indian version of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire? has swept all before it at awards ceremonies this year - and the trend continued at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre.
Accepting the statuette, Mr Beaufoy, who was raised in Glusburn, said: "Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can't say what they really mean.
"There are certain places in the universe you never expect to be standing.
"For me it's the moon, the South Pole, the Miss World podium and here.
"It's a tremendous honour."
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