16 Reads for the 84th Annual Oscars
The eighty-fourth annual Academy Awards will take place this year on February 26. There’s still time to catch up on your reading – while everyone else is rushing to theaters to get in every last movie before the big night. What to read before the 2012 Oscars? Here’s a literary look at the nominees.
The Descendants, by Kaui Hart Hemmings
Film nominated for: Best actor in a leading role, George Clooney; Best director, Alexander Payne; Best picture, Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, and Jim Taylor; Best adapted screenplay/writing, Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash; Best film editing, Kevin Tent
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, by John Le Carré
Film nominated for: Best actor in a leading role, Gary Oldman; Best adapted screenplay/writing, Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan; Best music/original score, Alberto Iglesias
Moneyball, by Michael Lewis
Film nominated for: Best actor in a leading role, Brad Pitt; Best actor in a supporting role, Jonah Hill; Best picture, Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, and Brad Pitt; Best adapted screenplay/writing, Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin; Best film editing, Christopher Tellefsen; Best sound mixing, Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco, and Ed Novick
My Week with Marilyn, based on the books My Week with Marilyn and The Prince, the Showgirl and Me by Colin Clark
Film nominated for: Best actor in a supporting role, Kenneth Branagh; Best actress in a leading role, Michelle Williams
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer
Film nominated for: Best actor in a supporting role, Max von Sydow; Best picture, Scott Rudin
Albert Nobbs, by George Moore
Film nominated for: Best actress in a leading role, Glenn Close; Best actress in a supporting role, Janet McTeer; Best makeup, Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston, and Matthew W. Mungle
The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
Film nominated for: Best actress in a leading role, Viola Davis; Best actress in a supporting role, Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer; Best picture, Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, and Michael Barnathan
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
Film nominated for: Best actress in a leading role, Rooney Mara; Best cinematography, Jeff Cronenweth; Best film editing, Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall; Best sound editing, Ren Klyce; Best sound mixing, David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, and Bo Persson
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, by J.K. Rowling
Film nominated for: Best art direction, production design: Stuart Craig; Set decoration: Stephenie McMillan; Best makeup, Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight, and Lisa Tomblin; Best visual effects, Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler, and John Richardson
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (“Hugo”), by Brian Selznick
Film nominated for: Best director, Martin Scorsese; Best picture, Graham King and Martin Scorsese; Best adapted screenplay/writing, John Logan; Best film editing, Thelma Schoonmaker; Best art direction, production design: Dante Ferretti, Set decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo; Best cinematography, Robert Richardson; Best costume design, Sandy Powell; Best music/original score, Howard Shore; Best sound editing, Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty; Best sound mixing, Tom Fleischman and John Midgley; Best visual effects, Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman, and Alex Henning
War Horse, by Michael Morpurgo
Film nominated for: Best picture, Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy; Best music/original score, John Williams; Best sound editing, Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom; Best sound mixing, Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson, and Stuart Wilson; Best art direction, Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales; Best cinematography, Janusz Kaminski
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
Film nominated for: Best costume design, Michael O’Connor
In the Sewers of Lvov (“In Darkness”), by Robert Marshall
Film nominated for: Best foreign language film
The Adventures of Tintin, by Hergé
Film nominated for: Best music/original score, John Williams
Drive, by James Sallis
Film nominated for: Best sound editing, Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
Farragut North (“The Ides of March”), play by Beau Willimon
Film nominated for: Best adapted screenplay/writing, George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Beau Willimon
