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Red Carpet Reads The books behind 2019 Oscar-nominated movies
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Rise of the Black Panther
by Evan Narcisse
The movie Black Panther was based on elements from Marvel comics, and characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. This 2018 volume chronicles T'Challa's rise to the throne—and to the Black Panther legacy that made him an Avenger.
Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Original Song, Best Original Score, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing
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The wife : a novel
by Meg Wolitzer
On the eve of her husband's receipt of a prestigious literary award, Joan Castleman, who has put her own writing ambitions on hold to support her husband, evaluates her choices and decides to end the marriage.
Nominated for: Best Actress
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Black Klansman : a memoir
by Ron Stallworth
A decorated African-American law enforcement veteran traces his remarkable undercover infiltration of the KKK and how his white partner and he posed as one person, rose in the ranks and sabotaged Klan activities before the investigation's tragic end.
Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Film Editing
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Can you ever forgive me? : memoirs of a literary forger
by Lee Israel
The author describes how she carried out a successful forgery caper for two years in which she used her talent as a researcher and celebrity biographer to forge more than three hundred letters by literary notables.
Nominated for: Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay
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If Beale Street could talk : a novel
by James Baldwin
When a pregnant Tish's boyfriend Fonny, a sculptor, is wrongfully jailed for a crime he didn't commit, their families unite to prove the charge false.
Nominated for: Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score
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To build a fire and other favorite stories
by Jack London
One of six tales in the anthology film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is based on Jack London's short story "All Gold Canyon."
Nominated for: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, and Best Original Song
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First man : the life of Neil A. Armstrong
by James R. Hansen
An authorized portrait of the famous American astronaut best known as the first person to set foot on the moon sheds light on lesser-known aspects of his career accomplishments, from the honors he received as a naval aviator to the price he and his family paid for his professional dedication.
Nominated for: Best Visual Effects, Best Production Design, Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing
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Mary Poppins
by P. L. Travers
An extraordinary English nanny blows in on the East Wind with her parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag and introduces her charges, Jane and Michael, to some delightful people and experiences. Mary Poppins Returns is based on characters from the classic book series by P. L. Travers.
Nominated for: Best Original Song, Best Original Score, Best Costume Design, and Best Production Design
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Queen of Scots : the true life of Mary Stuart
by J. A. Guy
A new historian of Mary Queen of Scots draws on new sources to shatter various myths surrounding this odd monarch and uncover some of the scandals and political machinations underpinning, and undermining, her throne. Forms the basis for the film Mary Queen of Scots.
Nominated for: Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling
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Let the old dreams die
by John Ajvide Lindqvist
The Swedish film Border (aka Grans) is based on the short story "Grans" in this collection from the author of the internationally acclaimed Let the Right One In, who is called Sweden's Stephen King.
Nominated for: Best Makeup and Hairstyling
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Avengers: Infinity War: Prelude
by Will Corona Pilgrim
The blockbuster features characters and elements taken from multiple Marvel comics. With this book, tales from the onset of the Infinity War shows Captain America and the Winter Soldier hunting down a terrorist, Stephen Strange discovering the existence of the universe altering infinity stones, and reveals tales from the past of Thanos.
Nominated for: Best Visual Effects
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The house at Pooh Corner
by A. A. Milne
Ten adventures of Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger, Piglet, Owl, and other friends of Christopher Robin, whose adventures the movie Christopher Robin is partially based on.
Nominated for: Best Visual Effects
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Ready player one
by Ernest Cline
Immersing himself in a mid-21st-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's super-wealthy creator, who has promised that the winner will be his heir.
Nominated for: Best Visual Effects
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Spider-Man spider-verse : Miles Morales
by Brian Michael Bendis
The groundbreaking animated movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse is based on characters and storylines from multiple Marvel comics. In the wake of Peter Parker's death in the Ultimate universe, Miles Morales steps forward with his own incredible abilities to live up to the Spider-Man legacy.
Nominated for: Best Animated Film
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