Oscar for Suzie Templeton

British animator Suzie Templeton has won an Oscar for Best Short Animated Film for her version of Prokofiev's Peter And The Wolf (co-written with Marianela Maldonado).

Templeton's previous work includes the BAFTA-winning Dog and Stanley.

She told BBC News about the challenge of adapting Peter And The Wolf.

"Writing to music meant the script was incredibly difficult to write. For me, it felt like writing backwards. Normally you have a concept and it all grows from that one place, it find its own shape, but a piece of music like that has its own complex shape already.

"Prokofiev's story is actually very simple, which is great in a performance with a narrator, because so much is left to the imagination. But in a visual piece everything needs to be told, and you don't want to fill it with just padding. Everything needs to make sense and have meaning. It was the hardest thing I have ever written in my life."

The main writing awards at the 2008 Oscars went to Diablo Cody for Juno and to Joel and Ethan Coen for their adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel, No Country For Old Men.