Mar 19, 1996 · Inside Oscar covers everything from the frenzy surrounding Gone with the Wind to the first televised awards to the disastrous 1994 ceremony, which was hosted by a terminally unfunny David Letterman.

Feb 12, 1986 · Describes each year's Oscar awards, shares anecdotes about the ceremony, winners, and their acceptance speeches, and provides a behind-the-scenes look at the event's production. This entertaining sojourn through movieland concentrates on the Academy Awards ceremony and surrounding hoopla.

Aug 19, 2021 · This volume focuses on the Academy Awards ceremony and other events connected with it. Each chapter contains an overview of the film year. It gives dates for each annual ceremony, location, host, who presented the major awards that year, as well as who performed the nominated songs.

This huge, hefty history of the hottest night for Hollywood hotshots is everything an "unofficial" account of the Academy Awards should be: exhaustively researched, informative, catty, and packed with amazing gossip.

"This is the book for your film reference library, not merely because it reveals where the bodies are buried, but also because it serves as a useful sociological and aesthetic guide to...

Mar 1, 2025 · Here's what you won't see at Sunday's 97th Academy Awards, hosted by Conan O'Brien (ABC and Hulu, 7 p.m. ET/4 PT). Most every stage moment of the Oscars telecast is planned and rehearsed, from...

Publication date 1988 Topics Academy Awards (Motion pictures) Publisher Ballantine Books Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled; inlibrary Contributor Internet Archive Language …

ACCLAIM FOR INSIDE OSCAR "A giddy social history of our place and time...Mr. Wiley and Mr. Bona have found just the right tone for writing about this most particular of American phenomena." --Vincent Canby The New York Times

"The fullest--and funniest--chronicle ever accorded the Golden Guy...a remarkable closeup of Oscar--warts and all." "There are probably more solid laughs on any ten pages of this book than in the last ten years of Academy Award telecasts." "It may be the only hilariously funny reference book in the world.

Aug 18, 2010 · Inside Oscar by Mason Wiley, 1986, Columbus edition, in English