My friend AK is attempting to read the Pulizer Prize winning novels for fiction, history, and autobiography, and as she's been progressing in her reading, I realized that I hadn't noticed that Gone With The Wind won the Pulitzer a few years before the film version came out and then went on to win the Oscar for best picture.
I was curious what other Pulitzer Prize winners have gone on to win and be nominated for Best Picture.
I discovered 4 Winners (two novels, two plays), and 12 nominees (eight novels, four plays).
This years one pulitzer winner could join the list, Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Pulitzer Prize Winnner & Academy Award Best Picture Winner
* You Can't Take It With You- 1937 Pulitzer Prize Drama, 1939 Best Picture Winner
* Gone with the Wind- 1937 Pulitzer Prize Novel, 1940 Best Picture Winner
* All the King's Men- 1947 Pulitzer Prize Novel, 1950 Best Picture Winner
* Driving Miss Daisy- Pulitzer Prize Drama 1988, 1990 Best Picture Winner
Pulitzer Prize Winner & Best Picture Nominee
* The Magnificent Ambersons- 1919 Pulitzer Prize Novel, 1943 Best Picture Nominee
* The Good Earth- 1932 Pulitzer Prize Novel, 1938 Best Picture Nominee
* Our Town- 1938 Pulizer Prize Drama, 1940 Best Picture Nominee
* The Yearling- 1939 Pulitzer Prize Novel, 1947 Best Picture Nominee
* The Grapes of Wrath- 1940 Pulitizer Prize Novel, 1941 Best Picture Nominee
* A Streetcar Named Desire- 1948 Pulitzer Prize Drama, 1942 Best Picture Nominee
* The Caine Mutiny- 1952 Pulizer Prize Fiction, 1955 Best Picture Nominee
* Picnic- 1953 Pulizaer Prize Drama, 1956 Best Picture Nominee
* The Diary of Anne Frank- 1956 Pulitzer Prize Drama, 1960 Best Picture Nominee
* To Kill a Mockingbird- 1961 Pulitizer Prize Fiction, 1963 Best Picture Nominee
* The Color Purple- 1983 Pulitizer Prize Fiction, 1986 Best Picture Nominee
* The Hours- 1999 Pulitzer Prize Fiction, 2003 Best Picture Nominee
It's interesting how films and plays transfer from the page and stage to the big screen. There's certainly a divergence at times with great books often not being the material for great film.
Monday, September 07, 2009
Pulitzer Prize & Best Picture Oscar
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Interesting article. This year especially I've been trying to read as many source materials as possible (Shutter Island, Push, The Lovely Bones)...Last year I didn't read any of them, and I'm interested to see how it will affect my viewing experience.
I was actually surprised by the number of Oscar nominations that Gone with the Wind got. You will also appreciate that we checked out the DVD from the library :-)
I did watch the Magnificent Ambersons after I read it and was pretty disappointed...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Soldier's Play (retitled A Soldier's Story) were also Pulitzer Prize Drama winners that became Best Picture Oscar nominees. And although I realize you wrote this article in 2009, you could update the list in 2017 with Fences.
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