Movie
1997
Oscar and Lucinda is a 1997 romantic drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Cate Blanchett, Ralph Fiennes, Ciarán Hinds and Tom Wilkinson. The screenplay by Laura Jones is based on the 1988 Booker Prize-winning novel Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey. The film was nominated at the 70th Academy Awards for the Best Costume Design, and was also nominated for and won several AACTA and other awards.
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Great novels are seldom adapted into great films, so the works that have earned prestigious literary awards are probably not going to be reincarnated into works worthy of prestigious film awards. On the other hand, some film makers tend to master difficult task of adapting literature into films with greater ease and more success than others. One of them is Gillian Armstrong, Australian director who made successful 1…More
