{"id":14870,"date":"2012-02-06T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=14870"},"modified":"2012-01-26T14:09:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T20:09:50","slug":"get-ready-for-the-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/get-ready-for-the-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"Get ready for the Oscars!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know that 6 of this year’s 9 Oscar nominees for Best Picture are based on books?\u00a0 In addition to those, several films nominated in other categories were also books before they were movies.\u00a0 Check them out at the library before the big night!<\/p>\n

\"\"Moneyball<\/a><\/strong><\/em> – nominee for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor.\u00a0 Based on the book by Michael Lewis.\u00a0 If you haven’t seen the movie yet, place a hold here<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Descendents<\/a><\/strong><\/em> – nominee for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director.\u00a0 Based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings.<\/p>\n

Hugo<\/a><\/strong><\/em> – nominee for Best Picture and Best Director.\u00a0 Based on the novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret<\/em> by Brian Selznick.<\/p>\n

War Horse<\/a><\/strong><\/em> – nominee for Best Picture.\u00a0 Based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo.<\/p>\n

\"\"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close<\/a><\/strong><\/em> – nominee for Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor.\u00a0 Based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer.<\/p>\n

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy<\/a><\/strong><\/em> – nominee for Best Actor.\u00a0 Based on the novel by John le Carr\u00e9.<\/p>\n

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/a><\/strong><\/em> – nominee for Best Actress.\u00a0 Based on the novel by Steig Larsson.<\/p>\n

The Help<\/a><\/strong><\/em> – nominee for Best\u00a0Picture, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress.\u00a0 Based on the novel by Kathryn Stockett.\u00a0 If you haven’t seen the movie yet, place a hold here<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you know that 6 of this year’s 9 Oscar nominees for Best Picture are based on books?\u00a0 In addition to those, several films nominated in other categories were also books before they were movies.\u00a0 Check them out at the library before the big night! Moneyball – nominee for Best[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,12,1],"tags":[86,1846,465],"class_list":["post-14870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-dvds","category-reference","tag-awards","tag-book-before-it-was-a-movie","tag-oscars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-3RQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14870"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14905,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14870\/revisions\/14905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}