The Bridge on the River Kwai order to continue working. As a result, Boulle, who did not speak English, was credited and received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay; many years later, Foreman and Wilson posthumously received the Academy Award. The film was widely praised, winning seven Academy Awards (including Best Picture) at the 30th Academy Awards. It used lush colour to bring out the British stiff upper lip of the colonel, played by Alec Guinness in an Oscar-winning performance. In 1997, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library
The Man Who Bridged the Mist enormous river filled with a semisolid corrosive mist that is home to monsters... until Kit Meinem arrives to build a suspension bridge. "Bridged" won the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novella and the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novella. As well, it was a finalist for the 2011 Theodore Sturgeon Award; however, Johnson withdrew it from consideration, as she was a Sturgeon juror. Ken Liu describes the story as "hover(ing) half way between science fiction and fantasy," stating that he likes "the way the precise nature of the mist is never made clear". The Man Who Bridged the Mist "The