Ten books made into films by directors who have been nominated for an Academy Award and lost five times:
- Robert Bloch, Psycho
- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
- Niven Busch, Duel in the Sun
- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
- Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
- Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
- Richard Hooker, MASH
- Nick Pileggi, Wiseguy
- Marjorie Rawlings, The Yearling
The directors in question, of course, are Robert Altman (who directed numbers 5 and 8), Clarence Brown (4 and 10), Alfred Hitchcock (1 and 7), Martin Scorsese (2 and 9), and King Vidor (3 and 6).