Martin Scorsese‘s award winning adaptation of The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick has lead the Academy Award nominations this year, earning 11 Oscar nominations.

We’ve embedded the trailer above–what did you think of the film? Earlier this year, we wrote about Selznick’s personalized tours of the American Museum of Natural History.

The Best Picture nominees included a host of adapted novels. Below, we’ve linked to free samples of books adapted into Best Picture-nominated films.

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The first trailer for Martin Scorsese‘s adaptation of The Invention of Hugo Cabret has been released. It will hit theaters at Thanksgiving this year.

We’ve embedded the video above–what do you think?

Brian Selznick published The Invention of Hugo Cabret in 2007, a 553-page novel with hundreds of illustrations. He described the book in a letter to his readers: “I’ve used the lessons I learned from Remy Charlip and other masters of the picture book to create something that is not a exactly a novel, not quite a picture book, not really a graphic novel, or a flip book or a movie, but a combination of all these things.” (Via Greg Pincus)