Oscar Moore (23 March 1960 – 12 September 1996)[1] was an English journalist, author and editor of Screen International.
Moore grew up in London and was educated at the independent The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School,[2] going on to read English at Pembroke College, Cambridge,[2] graduating in 1982.
He lived with HIV for the last 13 years of his life, and from 1994 to 1996 wrote a regular column for The Guardian entitled "PWA (Person With AIDS)."
[1][4][2] A Matter of Life and Sex was published in 1991 originally under the pseudonym Alec F. Moran (an anagram for roman à clef).
[8] After his death, EMAP, the publishers of Screen International, created The Oscar Moore Foundation as a trust fund to support European screenwriters.