Winning Reads: Books for Oscar Night
The Academy Awards are presented on March 2 and movie fans everywhere are going to be watching.
These nominated films were inspired by books:
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12 Years a Slave: the Autobiography of Solomon Northrup: the Bombshell Book that Helped Ignite the American Civil War by Solomon Northrup
• Audiobook
• Talking Book
The film has received 9 Academy Award Nominations including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Production Design, Costume Design, Film Editing and nominations for actors Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong'o, and director Steve McQueen.
Check the availabilty of the DVD.
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August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
• eBook
Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts received acting nominations for this adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize winning play.
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A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs and My Dangerous Days at Sea by Richard Phillips
• eAudiobook
• eBook
• Large Print
Captain Phillips was based on the real captain's autobiography. The movie has been nominated for six Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Sound Editing, and Sound Mixing; Barkhad Abdi was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
Check the availability of the DVD.
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Ernest and Celestine by Gabrielle Vincent
A picture book series about the friendship between a bear and a mouse inspired the creation of Best Animated Feature nominee Ernest & Celestine.
Place a hold on the DVD–French with English subtitles
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Philomena: a Mother, her Son and a Fifty Year Search by Martin Sixsmith
The film about a woman's search for the son she was forced to give up has been nominated for four awards: a Best Actress nomination for Judi Dench, as well as Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Original Score.
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The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson
The movie Frozen used Hans Christian Anderson's story as inspiration. Frozen has been nominated for Best Animated Picture and Best Song.
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The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
• eAudiobook
• eBook
Belfort's memoir of his high life as a stockbroker and subsequent conviction of fraud is the basis for the movie. It has been nominated for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay and received acting nominations for Leonardo di Caprio and Jonah Hill. Director Martin Scorsese has also received a nomination for his work.
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