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BookTrail Oscars Nominations

  • Submitted: 23rd January 2025

BookTrail Oscars Nominations

If Oscar did books…..it would be the most exciting weekend in the Bookish calendar. THE BOOKTRAIL OSCARS ARE HERE and the nominations are open!

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Awards 

And the nominations are……

Best Picture (on a cover)

The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable – Bloomsbury

Nephthys by Rachel Louise Driscoll – Vintage

The Small Museum by Jody Cooksley – Allison and Busby

Sirens by Emilia Hart – Borough Press

 

Best actress in a leading role

Best actress in a leading role

 

Alex from Notes on a Drowning – Orion

Clemmie from Nephthys   – Vintage publishers

Chloe from Death in the Arctic – Century

Heather, Rachel and Antonia all nominated for Lost in the Garden – Dead Ink

 

Best actor in a leading role

Best actor in a leading role

Percy from Homecoming – Pan Macmillan

Adrian Brown from The Lollipop Man – Allison and Busby

Jake Jackson from The Burial Place – Hemlock Press

Max Whitman  from A Beautiful Way to Die – Head of Zeus

 

Original (hopefully one day screenplay)

Original (hopefully one day screenplay)

Beautiful Ugly Alice Feeney – Pan macmillan

City of Night Birds by Juhea Kim – One World

This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead  = Head of Zeus

The Tomorrow Project by Heather Critchlow – Canelo

 

Best novel (that should be an animated feature film)

Best novel (that should be an animated feature film)

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett – Orbit Books

The Serpent’s Garden by Howard Linskey – Canelo

A Trial in Three Acts by Guy Morpuss – Viper

They Had It Coming by Nicky Smith – Penguin

 

Best visual effects

Best visual effects

The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier – The Borough Press

The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable – Bloomsbury

The Paintress by Jane Anderson –  Howe Street Publishing 

City of Night Birds by Juhea Kim – One World

 

Adapted screenplay ( or novel inspired by another novel or true life tale)

Adapted screenplay ( or novel inspired by another novel or true life tale)

 

This Motherless Land by Nikki May – Doubleday

Miss Austen Investigates by Jessica Bull – Penguin

The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godley – Penguin

The Einstein Vendetta by Thomas Harding – Penguin

 

Best novel (that should be a foreign language film)

Best novel (that should be a foreign language film)

El Tercer Lago – SPAIN – MAEVA

Murder at Mount Fiji – JAPAN – 

El pasado nunca nos olvida – SPAIN – MAEVA

The Clues in the Fjord by Satu Ramo – Zaffre

Best Cinematography

Best Cinematography

 

The Story Collector by Evie Woods – One More Thing

The Private Jet by Sarah Goodwin – Avon

The Killing Sense by Sam Blake – Corvus

The Three Lives of Cate Gay by Kate Fagan = Bloomsbury

 

best action short

Best live-action short

The Troubled Deep by Rob Parker – Bloomsbury Raven

The Wrong Hands By Mark Billingham – Sphere

The Favourites by Lynne Fargo – Vintage

Liars Island by T. Orr Munro – HQ

 

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