Oscar® Fever: The History and Politics of the Academy Awards®

by Emanuel Levy

Oscar« Fever is both history and appreciation, filled with insider stories and little-known facts, such as who came up with the idea of the Academy Awards«; who the youngest and oldest winners are; which film garnered the most nominations; who has been nominated the most times without ever winning and more. Included are all the latest anecdotes and statistics, as well as a selection of film stills from the greatest winners, nostalgic and new, to tell the inside story of Oscar«. .The Academy Awards ceremony is the single most anticipated and widely viewed spectacle in the world. It has close to one billion viewers every year. How has this event grown, in some seventy-five years, from an intimate gathering of directors and actors to a global phenomenon that dominates magazines, newspapers, radio, TV and the internet.Oscar« Fever is a completely new and far more popular rewriting of And the Winner Is...(1987;1990). It is both history and appreciation, chockablock with inside stories and little-known facts. Included are all the latest facts and statistics, as well as film stills, nostalgic and new, to tell the inside story of Oscar and what the awards really say about our times.

Genres: Nonfiction, Film

384 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

Surprisingly high amount of typos and just silly mistakes (The Apartment was NOT the last black-and-white film to win Best Picture. Heard of Schindler's List? And the author is from Israel, for cryin' out loud.) and there isn't a particularly high level of analysis here. But it's still a fun, informative book for the most part.

[Therese]

How do you even rate non-fiction? It was good and interesting, and I learned stuff. Yay.