Jeremy Jez Butterworth is an English dramatist and film director Butterworth has had major success with his play Mojo that premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 1995 It won the Laurence Olivier an Evening Standard and the George Devine awards Butterworth wrote and directed the film adaptation of Mojo released in 1997 This featured Harold Pinter He directed and cowrote with his brother Tom the film Birthday Girl 2001 which was produced by his brother Steve and starred Nicole Kidman Jeremy and JohnHenry Butterworth were named recipients of the Writers Guild of America Wests 2011 Paul Selvin Award for their screenplay for the film Fair Game 2010 directed by Doug Liman and which starred Naomi Watts and Sean Penn In May 2011 Butterworths play Jerusalem was nominated for Tony Award