Academy Award nominees- some were books first!
by lucroe
Some of the 2009 Academy Award nominees were books or short stories first. Here is a a list of some of this years nominees that were books before film:
Curious Case of Benjamin Button (short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Reader (book by Bernhard Schlink)
Slumdog Millionaire (book entitled Q & A by Vikas Swarup)
Revolutionary Road (book by Richard Yates)
Baader Meinhof Complex (book in German by Stefan Aust)
The Class (book in French entitled Entre les murs by François Bégaudeau)
In honor of the Oscars, Shaman Drum Bookstore asks you to comment on their Twitter page what books you think were better than the movie. So go to the link and post a comment (or tweet) today.
If you are interested in last year's award winners & nominees that were books, here is a brief rundown:
No Country for Old Men (book by Cormac McCarthy)
There will be Blood (based on the book Oil by Upton Sinclair)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (book by Ron Hansen)
Charlie Wilson's War (book by George Crile)
Into the Wild (book by Jon Krakauer)
Away from Her (based on the short story Bear Came over the Mountain by Alice Munro)
Atonement (book by Ian McEwan)
Gone Baby Gone (book by Dennis Lehane)
Beaufort (book by Ron Leshem)
the Counterfeiters (book by Adolf Burger)
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