Books clean up at Academy Awards

Movies based on books have scored well at the Oscars this year. Cormac McCarthy's No country for old men adapted by the Coen Brothers won four Oscars including best picture. Robert Ludlum's Bourne Ultimatum scored three, and the adaptation of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass took the visual effects prize. There will be blood, which was based on Upton Sinclair's Oil, blood won for best cinematography.

Word is that the Coen Brothers are looking to do Michael Chabon's The Yiddish policemen's union next.