In 1987, Kit Hesket-Harvey and James Ivory adapted Maurice to a 140-minute color film, the piece directed by Ivory and produced by Merchant-Ivory Productions. The cast of the film included James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow, Billie Whitelaw, Ben Kingsley, and Judy Parfitt. It could muster only a single Academy Award—that being for costume design. The themes and characterizations in the screenplay generally follow the spirit of Forster's novel.