Behind the Oscar: The Secret History of the Academy Awards by Anthony Holden

Behind the Oscar: The Secret History of the Academy Awards

Anthony Holden

672 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction informative slow-paced
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Tracing the awards from their founding by Louis B. Mayer in 1928 to the present, Holden shows the evolution of the ceremony from a five-minute pat on the back to a six-week orgy of self-congratulation. "Marvelously entertaining, but also a serious...

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