Book-to-movie adaptations scored high marks with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which announced its 2008 Golden Globe Award nominations yesterday. A complete list of nominees is available at the HFPA's website.
Atonement, based on the Ian McEwan novel, led all contenders with seven nominations, including best dramatic film, director, screenplay, actor, actress, supporting actress and score. Charlie Wilson's War, adapted from the late George Crile's book, garnered five nominations.
Other books honored with nominations for their film versions were No Country for Old Men, A Mighty Heart, Away From Her (based on an Alice Munro story), The Kite Runner, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Persepolis, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Into the Wild, Love in the Time of Cholera and Lust, Caution.
Golden Globe winners will be announced January 13.
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For The Kite Runner, which opens today, Newmarket Press is publishing The Kite Runner: A Portrait of the Marc Forster Film (paperback $19.95, 9781557048011; hardcover, $29.95, 9781557048042), which includes more than 100 full-color photos, a foreword by novelist Khaled Hosseini and the complete screenplay by David Benioff. Incidentally the movie was unusually complicated to make: the cast and crew came from 28 countries and spoke 13 languages.