At last night's Academy Awards ceremony, several movies based on books or with book connections took home Oscars, including the big winner Oppenheimer, which picked up seven of the golden statuettes. This year's major category bookish Oscar winners are:
Oppenheimer, based on the biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin: Best picture; directing (Christopher Nolan); actor in a leading role (Cillian Murphy); actor in a supporting role (Robert Downey Jr.); cinematography (Hoyte van Hoytema); film editing (Jennifer Lame); music, original score (Ludwig Göransson)
Poor Things, based on the novel by Alasdair Gray: Actress in a leading role (Emma Stone); costume design; makeup and hairstyling; production design; sound
The Zone of Interest, based on the novel by Martin Amis: Best international feature film
American Fiction, based on Percival Everett's novel Erasure: Writing, adapted screenplay (Cord Jefferson)
The Boy and the Heron, inspired by Genzaburo Yoshino's 1937 novel How Do You Live?, which appears in the film but is not directly connected to the story: Best animated feature film
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, based on a short story collection by Roald Dahl: Best short film, live action
A number of book-related movies earned Oscar nominations but didn't win. These included Killers of the Flower Moon, based on the book by David Grann; Nyad, based Diana Nyad's Find a Way; The Color Purple, based on the novel by Alice Walker; Society of the Snow, adapted from Pablo Vierci's book; Nimona, based on the graphic novel by N.D. Stevenson; Robot Dreams, based on the comic by Sara Varon; Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, based on the Marvel Comics character; and The ABCs of Book Banning.