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READ THE BOOKS THAT INSPIRED "BEST PICTURE" OSCAR WINNERS!
2003 ~ Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkein)2001 ~ A Beautiful Mind (Sylvia Nasen)
1996 ~ The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
1994 ~ Forrest Gump (Winston Groom)
1993 ~ Schindler's List (Thomas Keneally)
1991 ~ Silence of the Lambs (Thomas Harris)
1983 ~ Terms of Endearment (Larry McMurtry)
1980 ~ Ordinary People (Judith Guest)
1979 ~ Kramer vs. Kramer (Avery Corman)
1975 ~ One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
1974 ~ The Godfather (Part 2) (Mario Puzo)
1972 ~ The Godfather (Mario Puzo)
1971 ~ The French Connection (William Friedkin)
1968 ~ Oliver Twist (Oliver!) (Charles Dickens)
1966 ~ A Man for All Seasons [play] (Robert Bolt)
1964 ~ Pygmalion [play] (My Fair Lady) (George Bernard Shaw)
1963 ~ Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
1957 ~ Bridge on the River Kwai (Pierre Boulle)
1956 ~ Around the World in Eighty Days (Jules Verne)
1953 ~ From Here to Eternity (James Jones)
1949 ~ All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)
1947 ~ Gentleman's Agreement (Laura Z. Hobson)
1941 ~ How Green Was My Valley (Robert Llewelyn)
1940 ~ Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
1939 ~ Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
1929-30 ~ All Quiet on the Western Front (Eric Maria Remarque)
Updated 3/14/2005
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