Forgive me, Rat, but I am re-entering your post because it doesn't really have much to do with Cormac McCarthy (yet), but it is rather interesting. Here is a list of novelists and playwrights (not screenwriters) who have written multiple works that have been turned into Best Picture Nominated films. (Many people contributed to this on another thread):
Shakespeare(6): Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet(2), Henry V, Hamlet, Julius Caesar
Dickens(4): David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Oliver!
Tolkein(3): Lord of the Rings 1,2,and 3
Tennessee Williams(3): A Streetcar Named Desire, The Rose Tattoo, A Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Sinclair Lewis (3): Dodsworth, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry
E.M. Forster(3): A Passage To India, A Room With A View, Howard’s End
James Hilton (3): Random Harvest, Lost Horizon, and Goodbye Mr. Chips
Rodgers and Hammerstein (3): State Fair, The King and I, The Sound of Music
Dashiell Hammett(2): The Thin Man, The Maltese Falcon
John Steinbeck(2): Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath
Ernest Hemmingway(2): A Farewell To Arms, For Whom The Bell Tolls
Booth Tarkington (2) Alice Adams, The Magnificent Ambersons
Larry McMurty (2) Terms of Endearment, Last Picture Show
Lilian Hellman (2) The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, (she also wrote the screenplay for the Oscar nominated Dead End)
George Kaufman (2) You Can’t Take It With You, Stage Door
Stephen King (2): The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile
And then we have George Bernard Shaw - one play, two nominated films: Pygmalion and My Fair Lady
And we have Mario Puzo - one novel, three nominated films: The Godfather I, II, and III. (Part II had scenes from the novel and both sequels expanded upon chracters Puzo created.)
And we have Patrick O'Brien - two novels, one nominated film: Master and Commander, The Far Side of the World.
Are there any more?
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There is also Edna Ferber who wrote the novels "Giant" and "Cimarron", which both became BP nominated films with the latter winning. She also wrote a novel called "Stage Door", but I'm not sure if that is the source for the movie or not.
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Edna Ferber's "Stage Door" was not a novel but a play. She wrote it with George Kaufman and it was the inspiration for the movie. In short, JWC, you are right that Edna Ferber belongs on the list (and whoever came up with George Kaufman is right also).
Edna Ferber (3): Cimarron, Giant, and Stage Door
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No, unless I am forgetting something, neither Jane Austen nor D.H. Lawrence can go on the list. Each of them wrote one novel that became a BP nominated film: "Sense and Sensibility" and "Sons and Lovers" respectively, but that's it for both of them.
Both authors have a good body of work that has spawned a bunch of great movies - but only one each to get a BP nom.
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I am not sure. I thought that the movie was based on two of the Jack Aubrey novels, but I could be wrong. I saw the movie, but I have only read the first one, so I'm not sure.
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