Emma was the last of Austen's books to be published during her lifetime. She has recited other British tales like Nanny McPhee, The Big Bang, The Further Tales of Peter Rabbit and Austen's Northanger Abbey. Emma won't be Thompson's first audio-book. The script won her the Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay on winning the award she even gave a speech on Jane Austen's perspective of the whole evening. Thompson has not only acted as Elinor in the movie adaptation of the book Sense and Sensibility but she also wrote it's script. Now a new audio-book of her book has released and it's recited by the famous actress Emma Thompson, who is an Austen fan. So, get ready to dive into a world of sharp tongues and full hearts with our guide to every Jane Austen movie, ranked by Tomatometer.Though written over a 100 years ago Jane Austen's books are both relevant and popular today.

And because Austen fandom has evolved into a lifestyle and state of mind, we’re including movies like Austenland, The Jane Austen Book Club, and Becoming Jane. But we are opening it up to modernizations and looser adaptations, including Clueless (based on Emma), Material Girls and From Prada to Nada (both borne out of Sense and Sensibility), and Bridget Jones’s Diary (based on Pride and Prejudice). You won’t find the famous BBC miniseries of Pride and Prejudice in this list – we’re sticking strictly to theatrically releases. (note the period) lands on our Tomatometer on Monday, we’ve ranked all Jane Austen movies by their score. Meanwhile, Emma has had two direct adaptations: The 1996 version starring Gwyneth Paltrow, and this week’s Emma., starring Anya Taylor-Joy.īefore we see where Emma. Love & Friendship – have had one theatrical movie adaptation each. Sense & Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and Lady Susan – a.k.a. Pride has been adapted the most out of Austen’s books, including as the Bollywood-style Bride & Prejudice, and most recently in 2005 with Keira Knightley.

The first significant (and surviving) adaptation was 1940’s Pride and Prejudice, starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier, with the screenplay co-written by Aldous Huxley. Austen’s mastery of irony combined with her scintillating insight and ability to mine for humor in relationships has made her novels resonate well past her lifetime and into the cinematic medium that would rise 100 years after her death. Jane Austen books may have been around for centuries now, but in the movie world she’s as popular as she’s ever been. (Photo by Roadside Attractions/courtesy Everett Collection) All Jane Austen Movies Ranked by Tomatometer

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