Statistics for Book-to-Film Adaptations - The Best

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Director	Book/Film	Author	% Correct
Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings trilogy	J.R.R. Tolkien	90%
Chris Columbus et al.	The Harry Potter Series	J.K. Rowling	84%
Tod Browning	Dracula	Bram Stoker	77%
Robert Mulligan	To Kill A Mockingbird	Harper Lee	73%
John Huston	Moby Dick	Herman Melville	69%
Stanley Kubrick	The Shining	Stephen King	69%
William Wyler	Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte	58%
David Lean	Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	53%
Jonathan Demme	Silence of the Lambs	Thomas Harris	48%
Francis Ford Coppola	Apocalypse Now	Joseph Conrad	47%
Joel & Ethan Coen	No Country for Old Men	Cormac McCarthy	42%
Danny Boyle	Trainspotting	Irvine Welsh	42%
David Lean	Doctor Zhivago	Boris Pasternak	39%
James Ivory	The Remains of the Day	Kazuo Ishiguro	31%
Lewis Milestone	All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque	29%
Steven Spielberg	Schindler's List	Thomas Keneally	29%
Howard Hawks	The Big Sleep	Raymond Chandler	27%
Alfred Hitchcock	The 39 Steps	John Buchan	21%
Luchino Visconti	The Leopard	Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa	21%
Ronald Neame	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Muriel Spark	21%
Steven Spielberg	Empire of the Sun	J.G Ballard	18%
Stephen Frears	Dangerous Liaisons	Pierre Choderlos De Laclos	16%
Fred Zinnemann	The Day of the Jackal	Frederick Forsyth	15%
John & Roy Boulting	Brighton Rock	Graham Greene	8%
William Wyler	The Heiress	Henry James	3%