Question: What book was the first foreign language film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture based on?

Context articles: La Grande Illusion
José Luis Garci
Deepa Mehta
Berit Nesheim
The Road a Year Long
Like Water for Chocolate (film)
Cinema of Japan
Academy Award for Best Film Editing
11th Academy Awards
29th Academy Awards

La Grande Illusion (also known as Grand Illusion) is a 1937 French war film directed by Jean Renoir, who co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Spaak.
 The story concerns class relationships among a small group of French officers who are prisoners of war during World War I and are plotting an escape.
 The title of the film comes from the book "The Great Illusion" by British journalist Norman Angell, which argued that war is futile because of the common economic interests of all European nations.
 The perspective of the film is generously humanistic to its characters of various nationalities.
José Luis Garci (born as "José Luis García Muñoz"; 20 January 1944) is a Spanish director, producer, critic, TV presenter, screenwriter and author.
 He earned worldwide acclaim and his country's first Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for "Begin the Beguine" (1982).
 Four of his films, including also "Sesión continua" (1984), "Asignatura aprobada" (1987) and "El abuelo" (1998), have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, more than any other Spanish director.
 His films are characterized for his classical style and the underlying sentimentality of their plots.
Deepa Mehta, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( born 15 September 1950) is an Indo-Canadian film director and screenwriter, most known for her Elements Trilogy, "Fire" (1996), "Earth" (1998), and "Water" (2005); among which "Earth" was sent by India as its official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and "Water" was Canada's official entry for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, making it only the third non-French-language Canadian film submitted in that category after Attila Bertalan's 1990 invented-language film "A Bullet to the Head" and Zacharias Kunuk's 2001 Inuktitut-language feature "", and the first to receive an Oscar nomination.
Berit Nesheim (born 28 January 1945) is Norwegian film director.
 Nesheim graduated from the University of Oslo in foreign languages, literature and psychology to go on to a career as a director of television films.
 Her first feature-film was Frida – Straight from the Heart in 1991, which was the Norwegian entry to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1992.
 Her next feature film was Beyond the Sky (1994, starring with Swedish actress Harriet Anderson.
 Her film The Other Side of Sunday was nominated to Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1997.
 She directed the miniseries "An Immortal Man" (2006) on Henrik Ibsen's life.
The Road a Year Long (Italian: "La strada lunga un anno" , ) is a 1958 film directed by Giuseppe De Santis.
 A Yugoslavian-Italian co-production, it was Yugoslavia's first ever submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for the award at the 31st Academy Awards in April 1959.
 It won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
 For his performance Massimo Girotti was awarded best actor at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
Like Water for Chocolate (Spanish: "Como Agua Para Chocolate") is a 1992 Mexican film in the style of magical realism based on the popular novel, published in 1989 by first-time Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel.
 It earned ten Ariel Awards including the Best Picture and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
 The film became the highest grossing Spanish-language film ever released in the United States at the time.
 The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
The cinema of Japan (日本映画 , Nihon eiga , also known domestically as 邦画 "hōga", "domestic cinema") has a history that spans more than 100 years.
 Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2010, it was the fourth largest by number of feature films produced.
 In 2011 Japan produced 411 feature films that earned 54.9% of a box office total of US$2.338 billion.
 Movies have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived.
 In a "Sight & Sound" list of the best films produced in Asia, Japanese works made up eight of the top 12, with "Tokyo Story" (1953) ranked number one.
 Japan has won the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film four times, once again more than any other Asian country.
The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
 Nominations for this award are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture.
 For 33 consecutive years, 1981 to 2013, every Best Picture winner had also been nominated for the Film Editing Oscar, and about two thirds of the Best Picture winners have also won for Film Editing.
 Only the principal, "above the line" editor(s) as listed in the film's credits are named on the award; additional editors, supervising editors, etc. are not currently eligible.
 The nominations for this Academy Award are determined by a ballot of the voting members of the Editing Branch of the Academy; there were 220 members of the Editing Branch in 2012.
 The members may vote for up to five of the eligible films in the order of their preference; the five films with the largest vote totals are selected as nominees.
 The Academy Award itself is selected from the nominated films by a subsequent ballot of all active and life members of the Academy.
 This process is essentially the reverse of that of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA); nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing are done by a general ballot of Academy voters, and the winner is selected by members of the editing chapter.
The 11th Academy Awards were held on February 23, 1939, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
 It was the first Academy Awards show without any official host.
 This was also the first ceremony in which a foreign language film (Jean Renoir's "Grand Illusion") was nominated for Best Picture.
During the 29th Academy Awards, the regular competitive category of Best Foreign Language Film was introduced, instead of only being recognized as a Special Achievement Award or as a Best Picture nominee (as in 1938).
 The first winner in this new category was Federico Fellini's "La strada" with Anthony Quinn and a second nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
 Its win would help spur an interest in foreign-language films.
 Another Fellini film, "Nights of Cabiria" would win the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in the following year.