Silver Screen

You may be surprised that many Man Booker backlist books have been adapted into
acclaimed films and TV series with stellar casts.

2011 Man Booker Prize winner Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes has been adapted into
a film starring Charlotte Rampling and Jim Broadbent.

HBO has optioned the 2015 Man Booker Prize winning novel A Brief History of Seven
Killings by Marlon James, and is planning a TV series based on it. James will be adapting
his novel for the small screen, working closely with screenwriter Eric Roth.

Room by Emma Donoghue was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2010 and in 2015
Lenny Abrahamson directed and released a film of the same name.

Hilary Mantels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies were made into a six-part TV series on
BBC Two and starred Oscar-winner Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell.

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children was adapted into a film in 2012 with the screenplay
written by Rushdie himself.

Never Let Me Go, which was shortlisted in 2005, arrived at cinemas five years later
starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightly and Andrew Garfield.

When it was announced that David Mitchells 2004 Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Cloud
Atlas and Yann Martels 2002 Man Booker Prize-winning Life of Pi were going to be
adapted for the big screen, there was real anticipation that two such popular works were
soon to arrive at cinemas, and the books trended on Twitter as excitement grew.

Alan Hollinghurst's 2004 winning novel The Line of Beauty wasn't crafted into a movie,
but it was adapted in 2006 for a three-part BBC drama starring none other than 2012 Man
Booker Prize judge, Dan Stevens.

Ian McEwan's Atonement, which made the 2001 shortlist, was adapted into a film starring
Keira Knightly and James McAvoy and was nominated for seven Academy Awards,
winning one.
One of the most well-known was Anthony Minghella's 1996 film of Michael Ondaatje novel
The English Patient, which won the Booker Prize in 1992. The film starred Ralph Fiennes,
Kristin Scott-Thomas and Juliette Binoche and won an impressive nine Academy Awards.

As well as working on screenplays, Kazuo Ishiguro has had two of his Booker Prize and
Man Booker Prize novels adapted into films. The winner of the 1989 prize, The Remains of
the Day, was turned into an eight-time Oscar-nominated film in 1993 starring Anthony
Hopkins and Emma Thompson.

The film which beat The Remains of the Day to the 1993 Best Picture Oscar was Steven
Spielberg's Schindler's List, an adaptation of Thomas Keneally's 1982 Booker Prize-
winning Schindler's Ark. The film was voted the 44th Greatest Movie of All Time by Empire
magazine and won seven Academy Awards and three Golden Globes.

Other books that have received the silver screen treatment include Graham Swift's Last
Orders, A S Byatt's Possession, Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda and JM Coetzee's
Disgrace.