Oscar wars a history of Hollywood in gold, sweat, and tears
"The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, chronicling the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama."--
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2023]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A Little Too Scared To Hope
- You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet, 1927-29: The Academy's turbulent birth
- Rebels, 1933-39: Frank Capra and the attack of the guilds
- War! 1942: The plot against Citizen Kane
- The Greatest Star, 1951: All about an extraordinary Best Actress race
- Who Is Robert Rich? 1947-60: Three screenwriters and the Hollywood blacklist
- X, 1970: The counterculture takes the Oscars
- Running the asylum, 1976: The Oscars fly over the cuckoo's nest
- Fiasco, 1989: Allan Carr and the "Worst Oscars Ever"
- The Harveys, 1999: Shakespeare in Love vs. Saving Private Ryan
- Tokens, 1940, 1964, 2002: Hattie McDaniel, Sidney Poitier, and Halle Berry make history
- The Envelope, 2017: #OscarsSoWhite and a chaotic night
- Afterword: Gettin' Jiggy Wit It.
