Oscar Nominees Sport Literary Roots

Movies with literary bona fides garnered plenty of Oscar nominations last week, including four out of the five nominees for Best Picture:

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button--based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Frost/Nixon--based on a play by Peter Morgan, who also wrote the screenplay
• The Reader--based on Bernhard Schlink's bestselling novel
• Slumdog Millionaire--based on Vikas Swarup's novel Q&A

Some of the nominees in other categories were inspired by books as well:

• Revolutionary Road--based on Richard Yates's 1961 novel
• Doubt--based on John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer-winning play
• Man on Wire--based on Philippe Petit's memoir
• The Class (France's Best Foreign Language Film nominee)--based on François Bégaudeau's autobiographical novel

The winners will be announced at the Academy Awards ceremony on February 22nd.