Ep #94: Page to Screen, Oscars Edition

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

Plays of Tennessee Williams

Plays of Arthur Miller

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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