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- Best Pictures and Books. Many of the best films in history, according to the Oscars, first started out as pieces of literature. Relive those stories here.
- All About Eve based on The Wisdom of Eve, a short story by Mary Orr. This Bette Davis film about ambition and betrayal between actress Margo Channing and her innocent-seeming understudy Eve Harrington was based on short story, The Wisdom of Eve.
- From Here to Eternity based on the novel From Here to Eternity by James Jones. The film version of From Here to Eternity wasn't the only rendition to bring home an award.
- Around the World in Eighty Days based on the novel Around the World In Eighty Days by Jules Verne. This 1873 novel by Victorian sci-fi pioneer Jules Verne (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth) would go on to be adapted multiple times, but Michael Anderson’s 1954 film was the only adaptation to win an Oscar for Best Picture.
Jul 3, 2024 · What are the best books that were turned into Oscar-winning movies? Some of the books are award-winners themselves including Gone with the Wind and The English Patient, while tomes like Lord of the Rings and The Godfather are popular novels that have devoted fanbases.
- The Godfather (1972) The Godfather. R. Release Date. March 14, 1972. Director. Francis Ford Coppola. Cast. Marlon Brando , Al Pacino , James Caan , Richard S. Castellano , Robert Duvall , Sterling Hayden.
- Misery (1990) Misery. R. Where to Watch. *Availability in US. stream. rent. buy. Not available. Release Date. November 30, 1990. Director. Rob Reiner. Cast. James Caan , Kathy Bates , Richard Farnsworth , Frances Sternhagen , Lauren Bacall , Graham Jarvis.
- Dune (2021) Dune. PG-13. Where to Watch. *Availability in US. stream. rent. buy. Release Date. October 22, 2021. Director. Denis Villeneuve. Cast. Rebecca Ferguson , Zendaya Coleman , Jason Momoa , Timothee Chalamet , Josh Brolin , David Dastmalchian.
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. R. Where to Watch. *Availability in US. stream. rent. buy. Release Date. November 18, 1975.
Feb 27, 2017 · Every Oscar Best Picture-Winning Movie Based on a Book or a Play. From Ben-Hur to The Silence of the Lambs, movies rooted in literature have captivated audiences for decades. The...
- 10 'Mutiny on The Bounty'
- 9 'The Bridge on The River Kwai'
- 8 'The Godfather Part II'
- 7 'Argo'
- 6 'The Lost Weekend'
- 5 'All The King's Men'
- 4 'The Godfather'
- 3 'All Quiet on The Western Front'
- 2 'Schindler’s List'
- 1 'Rebecca'
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96% Based on the 1932 novel of the same name by Charles Nordhoff andJames Norman, Mutiny on the Bounty follows Roger Byam (Franchot Tone), a midshipman, who travels to Tahiti with Captain Bligh (Charles Laughton) and Fletcher Christian (Clark Gable) on board HMS Bounty. After six enjoyable months in Tahiti, Christian leads th...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96% Based on the 1952 novel of the same name by Pierre Boulle, The Bridge on the River Kwai follows allied POWs in a Japanese internment camp during World War II who are given the task of building a bridge so that the Burma-Siam railway can pass. Their natural inclination is to destroy the bridge, but under Colonel Nicholson'...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96% Based on Mario Puzio’s 1969 novel of the same name, The Godfather Part II is the second installment in The Godfather trilogy and serves as both a prequel and sequel to the 1972 film. The movie features two concurrent storylines: one with Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), the new Don of the Corleone family, defending the famil...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96% Adapted from U.S. C.I.A operative Tony Mendez's 1999 memoir The Master of Disguise and Joshuah Bearman’s 2007 Wired article "The Great Escape: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran,” Argois a Ben Affleckhistorical drama thriller. The movie recounts the "Canadian Caper," in which Mendez (play...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 97% Based on Charles R. Jackson's novel of the same name, The Lost Weekend follows a man living with alcoholism, Don Birnam (Ray Milland) who has been "on the wagon" for ten days and appears to be through the worst, but his craving has only grown more sly. Don starts a four-day binge after avoiding a country weekend that his ...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 97% Based on the 1946 novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men revolves around Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford), an ambitious and brutal politician in the American South, and his rise and collapse. The film is bursting with vigor, tough-minded commentary, and astute insights about the less savory face...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 97% Based onMario Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same name, The Godfather is the first installment inThe Godfather franchise that covers the Corleone family's history from 1945 to 1955 under the patriarch Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando). The film focuses on how his youngest son, played by Al Pacino, goes from being a hes...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 98% All Quiet on the Western Front is a classic 1930 American anti-war film based on German novelist Erich Maria Remarque's 1929 novel of the same name. The movie centers on a group of German schoolboys who were persuaded by their nationalistic teacher to serve at the start of World War I. The narrative depicts the sorrow of ...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 98% Based on Thomas Keneally's 1982 novel Schindler's Ark, Schindler’s List follows the real-life figure Oskar Schindler (played by Liam Neeson), a German manufacturer who employed predominantly Polish-Jewish refugees in his factories during World War II and thereby rescued more than a thousand of them. Schindler's List is a ...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 98% Based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca follows a shy woman’s companion (Joan Fontaine) who is staying in Monte Carlo with her conservative employer and encounters the affluent Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier). They fall in love, get married and go back to his enormous country home in Corn...
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Dec 2, 2022 · Below you'll find some of the best movies based on books available for streaming right now. We also included the real-life novels that inspired them so you can add to your reading list.
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Jul 30, 2024 · Universal Pictures; Vintage Books. In crafting his Oscar-winning biopic on J. Robert Oppenheimer, a.k.a. the "father" of the atomic bomb, Christopher Nolan pulled directly from Martin Sherwin and...
