Not exact matches
The 1959 version
of «Ben - Hur,» already a remake
of a 1925 silent
movie of the
same name,
won a record number
of Oscars and is most famous for its epic chariot race.
The
movie, which is based on Uzodinma Iweala's 2005 novel
of the
same name, stars Golden Globe -
winning actor Idris Elba and was written and directed by Cary Fukunaga, who
won an Emmy Award for directing HBO television show True Detective.
The fifth episode
of Justin Simien's series - length Netflix adaptation
of his
movie of the
same name was directed by Barry Jenkins, the Oscar -
winning director
of Moonlight.
Based on the children's novel by Michael Morpurgo and the Tony Award -
winning play
of the
same name, «War Horse» is like a
movie from another era — an old - fashioned, Golden Age - style epic in the vein
of «Gone with the Wind.»
Based on David Eggers» award -
winning novel
of the
same name, «A Hologram for the King» isn't a bad
movie — in fact, it's perfectly mediocre in every way — but it's not a very memorable one, either.
Thus, perhaps, Sofia Coppola
won the best director for The Beguiled, a pale copy
of the Don Siegel
movie of the
same name, with the claim that this imitation is from a feminist perspective.