“I never deliberately learned to read…….Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces. It was named the best novel of the twentieth century by librarians across the country (Library Journal). In 2007 the film ranked twenty-fifth on the AFI's 10th anniversary list of the greatest American movies of all time. In 2003, the American Film Institute named Atticus Finch the greatest movie hero of the 20th century. In 1995, the film was listed in the National Film Registry. It was nominated for five more Oscars including Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Mary Badham, the actress who played Scout. It went on to win three Oscars: Best Actor for Gregory Peck, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White, and Best Screenplay for Horton Foote. Made into the Academy Award-winning film, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck. It has gone on to become of the best-loved classics of all time and has been translated into more than forty languages selling more than forty million copies worldwide. The New Yorker declared it "skilled, unpretentious, and totally ingenious". To Kill a Mockingbird became an immediate bestseller and won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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