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 Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters (2009) is a parody novel by Ben H. Winters, with Jane Austen credited as co-author. It is a mashup story containing elements from Jane Austen's 1811 novel "Sense and Sensibility" and common tropes from sea monster stories. It is the thematic sequel to another 2009 novel from the same publisher called "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies". It was first published by Quirk Books on September 15, 2009. The story follows the plot of "Sense and Sensibility", but places the novel in an alternate universe version of Regency era