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Ep #94: Page to Screen, Oscars Edition
Description
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