Complex sentence: His 1990 international best-selling novel "The Last Station" about the last days of Leo Tolstoy was translated into over thirty languages, and adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, James McAvoy, and Paul Giamatti.
Split into simpler sentences: His 1990 international best-selling novel "The Last Station" is about the last days of Leo Tolstoy. It was translated into over thirty languages, and adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, James McAvoy, and Paul Giamatti.