The Full Monty's SAG Awards upset for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture at the 1998 ceremony — beating a murderers' row that included Good Will Hunting, Titanic, Boogie Nights and L.A.
Confidential — capped an unlikely journey from low-budget British comedy to one of the most beloved properties of the 1990s.
1997's Monty launched a Broadway musical and a hit play that ran in London's West End from 2014 until the novel coronavirus pandemic forced its theater to shutter last year.
It all began when Italian producer Uberto Pasolini approached screenwriter Simon Beaufoy with an idea. "He was fascinated by the idea of male strippers," recalls Beaufoy, 54.
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