Thursday, March 22, 2012

the oscars were a few weeks ago...

... but do you know how many Oscar-nominated movies came from books?!  just a few are listed here...

127 Hours by Aron Ralston (starring James Franco, 2010)

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (starring David Niven, 1956)

Atonement by Ian McEwan (starring Keira Knightley, 2007)

A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar (starring Russell Crowe, 2001)

The Blind Side by Michael Lewis (starring Sandra Bullock, 2009)

The Bridge on the River Kwai by Pierra Boulle (starring William Holden, 1957)

The Cider House Rules by John Irving (starring Tobey Maguire, 1999)

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (starring Jude Law, 2003)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald (starring Brad Pitt, 2008)

Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake (starring Kevin Costner, 1990)

The Descendants by Kuai Hart Hemmings (starring George Clooney, 2011)

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (starring Omar Sharif, 1965)

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (starring Ellen Burstyn, 1973)

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (starring Thomas Horn, 2011)

Forest Gump by Winston Groom (starring Tom Hanks, 1994)

The French Connection by Robin Moore (starring Gene Hackman, 1971)

From Here to Eternity by James Jones (starring Burt Lancaster, 1953)

Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury (starring Leonardo DiCaprio, 2002)

The Godfather by Mario Puzo (starring Marlon Brando, 1972)

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (starring Clark Gable, 1939)

In the Heat of the Night by John Ball (starring Sidney Poitier, 1967)

Kramer vs Kramer by Avery Corman (starring Dustin Hoffman, 1979)

L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy (starring Kevin Spacey, 1997)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (starring Elijah Wood, 2001)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (starring Elijah Wood, 2003)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien (starring Elijah Wood, 2002)
Gregory Peck and Harper Lee on the set of To Kill A Mockingbird

Master and Commander: the Far 
Side of the World by Patrick O'Brian (starring Russell Crowe, 2003)

Midnight Cowboy by James Leo Herlihy (starring Jon Voight, 1969)

Misery by Stephen King (starring  James Caan, 1990)

Moneyball by Michael Lewis (starring Brad Pitt, 2011)

Mystic River by Dennis Lehayne (starring Sean Penn, 2003)

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (starring Javier Bardem, 2007)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (starring Jack Nicholson, 1975)

Ordinary People by  Judith Guest (starring Mary Tyler Moore, 1980)

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (starring Meryl Streep, 1985)

Precious by Sapphire, based on the novel Push (starring Gabourey Sidibe, 2009)

Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (starring Liam Neeson, 1993)

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand (starring Tobey Maguire, 2003)

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (starring Emma Thompson, 1995)

The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King, from the Different Seasons collection of novellas  
(starring Morgan Freeman, 1994)

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris (starring Jodie Foster, 1991)

A Single Man by Tom Ford (starring Colin Firth, 2009)

Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup (starring Freida Pinto, 2008)

Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtrey (starring Shirley MacLaine, 1983)

There Will Be Blood by Upton Beall Sinclair, based on the novel Oil (starring Daniel Day-Lewis, 2007)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre (starring Gary Oldman, 2011)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (starring Gregory Peck)

Up in the Air by Walter Kirn (starring George Clooney, 2009)

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