Live Poll: Nobel Adaptations

This is just a small selection of films based on works by Nobel Prize winning authors. Which of these is your favorite adaptation?

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls563551878/

Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/J0lZpGOpqmc/

(minimum 6.0 from 5,000 ratings, one film per author)

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dan_dassow

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2 years ago

@Peter,

Are you limiting this poll to films based on the work of Nobel Literature Prize winners? If you are including the work of other Nobel Prize winners, you may wish to consider Interstellar (2014). Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan wrote the screen play based upon ideas that Kip Thorne developed for the film.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_Thorne

Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he was the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) until 2009[3] and is one of the world's leading experts on the astrophysical implications of Einstein's general theory of relativity. He continues to do scientific research and scientific consulting, most notably for the Christopher Nolan film Interstellar.[4][5] Thorne was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".[6][7][8][9]

The Science of Interstellar Paperback – Illustrated, November 7, 2014

by Kip Thorne (Author), Christopher Nolan (Foreword)

A journey through the otherworldly science behind Christopher Nolan’s award-winning film, Interstellar, from executive producer and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Kip Thorne.

Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar, Kip Thorne, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who assisted Nolan on the scientific aspects of Interstellar, shows us that the movie’s jaw-dropping events and stunning, never-before-attempted visuals are grounded in real science. Thorne shares his experiences working as the science adviser on the film and then moves on to the science itself. In chapters on wormholes, black holes, interstellar travel, and much more, Thorne’s scientific insights―many of them triggered during the actual scripting and shooting of Interstellar―describe the physical laws that govern our universe and the truly astounding phenomena that those laws make possible.

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