Gone Girl

Gone Girl (2014) was nominated for four Golden Globes, one Academy Award, one British Academy Film Award, six Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, three Empire Awards, one Grammy Award, four MTV Movie Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award and many more. Flynn won the 2015 Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Rosamund Pike won the 2015 Empire Award for Best Actress, and they continued to receive similar awards for their roles in making Gone Girl a success. The film got so many accolades that the list has its own Wikipedia page separate from the movie’s.
While critics had generally favorable reviews for the movie, they were especially impressed by the casting. Pike (Pride & Prejudice, Jack Reacher) played the psychotic Amy Dunne, opposite Ben Affleck (He’s Just Not That Into You, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice) as her husband Nick Dunne. Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother, A Series of Unfortunate Events) starred as Amy’s ex-boyfriend Desi Collings and Tyler Perry (Vice, Star Trek) starred as Tanner Bolt, Nick’s attorney (the role for which he won an African-American Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor).
The film and book have a few differences, but none so drastic that it halted the onslaught of awards the movie received. Some of the movie’s changes include the proposal scene (which didn’t exist in the book), fewer clues in Nick’s anniversary treasure hunt, smaller roles for Amy’s parents and Nick’s father and a lack of Amy’s refrigerated anti-freeze-induced vomit (thankfully), among other edits.