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Books don't win Academy Awards, but their movie adaptions do. Films based on Lew Wallace's "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" and J.R.R. Tolkein's "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" have won a record 11 Oscars.

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