adaptations receiving critical acclaim

There might have been adaptations that couldn’t be as successful as the novels but that does not make the Fidelity Critics right in saying that all adaptations are doomed to failure. Virginia Woolf even likened adaptation to rape!

There are many adaptations that have received the critic’s awards. In the year 2009 four adaptations of the books have received five major awards at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, like ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ (based on a book by Roald Dhal with the same title) took the best animated film award. Meryl Streep won the best actress for ‘Julie and Julia’ (based on Julie Powell’s ‘Memoir’), Mo’ Nique won the best supporting actress for ‘Precious’ (based on ‘Push’ by Sapphire) and finally George Clooney won the best actor for ‘Up in the Air’ (based on Walter Kirn’s novel)



Novel by Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol' was put on the big screen in 1951 by the same title, directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, starring Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, is picked up as the best film adaptations of all times by the A.O Scott, New York Times.