And, yeah, they make for pretty good movies too.

(They’ve also inciteda bit of controversy.)

Bonus reading: The film also draws from Nic’s own account of the experience,Tweak.

Oscar-Books

Mary Cybulski/Fox Searchlight; Paramount Pictures; Sanja Bucko/Warner Bros.; David Lee/Focus Features; Erika Doss/Fox

(It helps that Conleywas actively involvedin the process.)

But critics have certainly approved of his take on the book, co-written with his partner Zoe Kazan.

In whatEW’s Chris Nashawaty callsa performance “that sticks with you,” Carey Mulligan does award-worthy work.

BlackkKlansman

David Lee/Focus Features; Flatiron Books

As her father, Russell Hornsby delivers several heartbreaking monologues, and hopefully has a shot.

But both works stand apart as seriously good sci-fi.

If-Beale-Street-Could-Talk

Tatum Mangus/Annapurna Pictures; Vintage

Can-you-Ever-Forgive-Me

Mary Cybulski/Fox Searchlight; Simon + Schuster

First-Man

Daniel McFadden/Universal Pictures; Simon + Schuster

The-Death-of-Stalin

Nicola Dove/IFC Films; Tres Estrelas

Leave-No-trace

Scott Green/Bleecker Street; Mariner Books

Beautiful-Boy

Francois Duhamel/Amazon Studios; Mariner Books

Crazy-Rich-Asians

Sanja Bucko/Warner Bros.; Anchor

The-Front-Runner

Frank Masi SMPSP/Columbia Pictures; Vintage

Boy-Erased

Focus Features; Riverhead Book

Wildlife

IFC Films.; Grove Press

The-Hate-U-Give

Erika Doss/Fox; HarperCollins

You-Were-Never-Really-Here

Alison Cohen Rosa/Amazon Studios; Vintage

The-Wife

Graeme Hunter/Sony Pictures Classics; Scribner

Annihilation

Peter Mountain/Paramount Pictures; FSG Originals