Films with book connections won in several categories at this year's British Academy of Film and Television Arts film awards, which were announced Sunday in London. The winners included:
12 Years a Slave, based on the book by Solomon Northup: best film, leading actor (Chiwetel Ejiofor)
Philomena, based on The Lost Child of Philomena Lee by Martin Sixsmith: adapted screenplay (Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope)
Captain Phillips, based on A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs and Dangerous Days at Sea by Richard Phillips and Stephan Talty: supporting actor (Barkhad Abdi)
Frozen, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Snow Queen": animated film
The Great Gatsby, adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel: production design, costume design.
The Great Beauty (Although this isn't a book-to-film adaptation, Film Comment has noted that director Paolo Sorrentino's novel Everybody's Right "is everywhere in Sorrentino's world because literature has always been his true calling"): film not in the English language.
