At last night's Academy Awards ceremony, four movies based on books or with book connections had their moments, including One Battle After Another, which picked up six of the golden statuettes. This year's major category bookish Oscar winners are:
One Battle After Another, loosely based on Thomas Pynchon's novel Vineland: Best picture; actor in a supporting role (Sean Penn); directing (Paul Thomas Anderson); writing, adapted screenplay (Paul Thomas Anderson); film editing (Andy Jurgensen); casting (Cassandra Kulukundis)
Hamnet, adapted from Maggie O'Farrell's novel: Actress in a leading role (Jessie Buckley)
Frankenstein, inspired by Mary Shelley's classic novel: Costume design; makeup & hairstyling; production design
The Singers, based on a 19th-century Russian story by Ivan Turgenev: Best live action short film
Other bookish nominees included Train Dreams, based on Denis Johnson's novella; Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, based on Amélie Nothomb's The Character of Rain; Jane Austen's Period Drama, a satire of Pride and Prejudice; The Lost Bus, based on the book Paradise by Lizzie Johnson; Kokuho, based on the novel by Shuichi Yoshida; and The Ugly Stepsister, a spin on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Cinderella.