Bookish Oscar winners

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Bookish Oscar winners

Mar 11 2024

At last night's Academy Awards ceremony, several movies based on books or with book connections took home Oscars. Shelf Awareness rounds up the major category bookish winners including Oppenheimer, based on the biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin; Poor Things, based on the novel by Alasdair Gray; The Zone of Interest, based on the novel by Martin Amis; and American Fiction, based on Percival Everett's novel Erasure.

Source: Shelf Awareness

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