The Academy Awards are this weekend and five of this year's Best Picture nominees are based on books! As book and movie lovers, Adam and Jill decided it would be fun to discuss books that were adapted into films that became Best Picture nominees. We also look ahead to upcoming films and make our predictions for what will be future Oscar contenders.
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Books Mentioned In This Episode:
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
Fences by August Wilson
A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Oil! by Upton Sinclair
The Martian by Andy Weir
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Different Seasons by Stephen King
Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Capote by Gerald Clarke
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Double Indemnity by James Cain
Deliverance by James Dickey
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Room With a View by E. M. Forster
Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
Psycho by Robert Bloch
Jaws by Peter Benchley
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Revenant by Michael Punke
Father of the Bride by Edward Streeter
Serena by Ron Rash
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Far From the Maddening Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Black Mass by Dick Lehr & Gerald O'Neill
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
In The Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
The Dinner by Herman Koch
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
The Circle by Dave Eggers
The Shack by William P. Young
Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
It by Stephen King
The Dark Tower by Stephen King
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'engle
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