Sir Tom, who won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the screenplay for "Shakespeare in Love," died peacefully at his home in Dorset surrounded by his family, the BBC reports.
He has also written the screenplay for the Spielberg film "The Kingdom of the Sun" from 1987, "The Real Thing" and "Rosenkrants and Gyllenstjerna are Dead", which he also directed.
In 2023, he was awarded a Tony for the Broadway play "Leopoldstadt".
"He will be remembered for his works, for their brilliance and humanity, and for his wit, his irreverence, his generosity and his deep love of the English language," Stoppard's agent said in a statement.
Tom Stoppard was born Tomáš Sträussler in 1937 in Zlín in what was then Czechoslovakia, but the family fled Europe to escape Nazism and eventually came to England.
