A Book Lover’s Guide to the Academy Awards

Reading has sort of become a lost cause. Nowadays everyone would rather go see a movie or watch television. Most of the time people think it’s silly or “nerdy” to read books. But in reality, the books people ignore have been turned into movies, movies that are selected for many awards. Actually, a lot of the movies that are nominated for the Academy Awards this year, from Best Picture to Sound Editing, were actually books first! Here are all the books to movies that have been nominated for awards (some of them have different titles, so in that case I put both):

• Hugo: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
• Best Picture, Cinematography, Art Direction, Costume Design, Directing Nominees, Film Editing, Music (Original Score), Sound Mixing, Visual Effects, Writing (Adapted Screenplay), Sound Editing
• Moneyball by Michael Lewis
• Best Picture, Film Editing, Sound Mixing, Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
• Actor in Leading Role: Brad Pitt, Actor in Supporting Role: Jonah Hill
• The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings
• Best Picture, Directing Nominees, Film Editing, Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
• Actor in Leading Role: George Clooney
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Best Picture
• Actor in Supporting Role: Max von Sydow
• War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
• Best Picture, Cinematography, Art Direction, Music, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Best Picture
• Actress in Leading Role: Viola Davis, Actress in Supporting Role: Jessica Chastain, Octavia Spencer
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• Cinematography, Film Editing, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing
• Actress in Leading Role: Rooney Mara
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: A George Smiley Novel by John Le Carré
• Music (Original Score), Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
• Actor in Leading Role: Gary Oldman
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Costume Design
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
• Art Direction, Makeup,
• Ides of March: Farragut North by Beau Willimon
• Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The fact that these books were good enough to be turned into movies AND nominated for the Academy Awards says a lot. I’m certain you have seen one of these movies, if not all. And since they have been nominated for an award, they had to have been good movies, right? So if you have seen the movie and thoroughly enjoyed it, why not pick up the book that inspired it!

Now, when you finish reading the books that are already movies, you’re probably going to wonder what to do next. Well, that’s where I can help! Every year there are tons of books to movies and I have a list of some for 2012, just for you. This year it’s time to be a step ahead and pick up the book before you see the movie!

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
• The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
• The Bourne Legacy by Eric Van Lustbader
• Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
• The Hobbit by J.R.R.  Tolkein
• The Borrowers by Mary Norton
• The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes  by Jay Anson

-Lovejoy

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