Lindsay Doran film. Doran explained, "For 10 years I'd been trying to find somebody I thought could adapt it. Usually romantics are too optimistic and dreamy to see Austen's cynicism, and satirists are too cynical to believe in romance." Thompson fit Doran's criteria for a good screenwriter, despite the actress never having written a screenplay before. The resulting production of "Sense and Sensibility" earned Thompson an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, making her the only person to have won an Oscar for both her writing and acting (Thompson won the Best Actress award for "Howards End", in 1993). Along with producing,
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters transform it into the theme of the novel. However, with "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters", the image is created by the artist. "Entertainment Weekly" gave "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters" a rating of B- (in contrast to a rating of A- for "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"), wondering "(c)an it be that in the rush to turn a charming book novelty into a renewable resource, the whole Austen-and-monsters series has already jumped the shark?" "The A.V. Club" gave the novel a favorable review and a grade of A-, approving of Winters' "aggressive approach to transforming his assigned text