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It’s a tidy idea: nine novels, nine winners, one decade of Oscar history. The real count is a little different. Counting the ceremonies held from 1990 through 1999, ten films took Best Picture, and only five of them came from novels.
Going through the full list is the easiest way to see where the books end and the other source material begins. Here is each winner in order, with what it was based on.
Driving Miss Daisy (Ceremony of 1990)
This one isn’t a novel. It started as a play by Alfred Uhry, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Uhry also wrote the screenplay for the 1989 film.
The story follows an elderly Southern woman and her chauffeur across several decades. It won Best Picture at the ceremony that opened the decade, so it sits on the list as a stage adaptation rather than a book one.
Dances with Wolves (Ceremony of 1991)
Michael Blake published the novel in 1988, after first writing the story as a screenplay. Kevin Costner directed and starred in the film, and Blake adapted his own book for it. The screenplay won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
The film follows a Union soldier who is posted to a remote frontier outpost and forms ties with a Lakota community. It is the first of the decade’s five true novel adaptations.
The Silence of the Lambs (Ceremony of 1992)
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Author : Matthias Binder
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