Some of this year's Oscars nominated films are based on books.
Two of them won the Oscars.
We'll show you which ones.
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As every year, the Oscars are a spectacle and the entire film industry is watching spellbound.
Who will win the golden Oscar this year?
The fact that there are also book templates that have been filmed is nothing new.
We introduce you to this year's books.
Oscar Winner: EM Remarque "Nothing New in the West"
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Oscars 2023: These book templates made it.
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The first was Erich Maria Remarque's original “Nothing New in the West” from 1929. The material, which has been filmed many times, won the Oscar for best international film, best score, best production design and best cinematography.
The story of nineteen-year-old Paul Bäumer, who went from school to the front as an unsuspecting war volunteer, is now common knowledge.
But when you read it again, the impression is again shocking: how Bäumer experiences the whole brutality of the carnage and the senseless deaths of his comrades instead of the hoped-for enthusiasm for the war and a short adventure is touching and outrageous.
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EM Remarque "Nothing new in the west"
2014, Kiwi Verlag, ISBN 13-978-3-462-04633-5
Price: paperback €10, e-book €8.99, number of pages: 336 (deviating from the format)
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Oscar nomination: Joyce Carol Oates "Blonde"
Unfortunately, "Blonde" didn't win an Oscar this year.
Nevertheless, the film is the second film adaptation of Joyce Carol Oate's novel of the same name.
"Blonde" tells the story of Marilyn Monroe.
Norma Jeane Baker was born in Los Angeles in 1926.
Her childhood is marked by loneliness and longing.
As a young woman, she has already internalized that there is only one way for her to assure her self-worth: through the desires of men.
From there, the transformation into the artificial character Marilyn Monroe begins.
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Joyce Carol Oates "Blonde"
2021, HarperCollins Verlag, ISBN 13-978-3-365-00123-3
Price: paperback €16, e-book €12.99, number of pages: 1024 (deviating from the format)
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Oscar nomination: Claire Keegan "The Third Light"
The short story "The Third Light" by Claire Keegan is the basis of the Irish film "The Quiet Girl", which was nominated in the category "Best International Film" and unfortunately did not win an Oscar.
Ireland, early 1980s: On a hot summer's day, a father delivers his young daughter to distant relatives on a farm in deepest Wexford.
His wife is pregnant again, there is still a mouth to be fed.
So the girl finds herself with the childless couple John and Edna Kinsella.
In an unusually beautiful and cozy place, where there is milk and rhubarb and attention in abundance.
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Claire Keegan "The Third Light"
2023, Steidl Verlag, ISBN 13-978-3-969-99199-2
Price: hardback €20, e-book €12.99, number of pages: 104 (deviating from the format)
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Oscar Winner: Miriam Toews "The Debate"
Congratulations on the Oscar.
Won in the Best Adapted Screenplay category.
Based on the novel of the same name by Miriam Toews ("The Debate"), the film by Sarah Polley tells the drama of a secret meeting of different women from an isolated community.
For years they have tried to come to terms with what has happened.
Now the women of a secluded community have the opportunity to do things differently.
And so they speak up.
Should they stay or go?
If they stay, then they must not only be listened to, but also forgive.
If they leave, they have to dare to start over in a world that is completely unknown to them.
Cover text/Hoffmann and Campe Verlag
Miriam Toews "The Debate"
2019, Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, ISBN 13-978-3-455-00509-7
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