Oscar Wars : : a History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

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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.
"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." -- From dust jacket flap.

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Very Woke submitted by GJBarnett2 on March 13, 2023, 4:06pm Not a general history of the Oscars, rather a history of selected behind-the-scenes (and not so "behind) battles between nominees and would-be's. From a very leftist perspective. The last chapter, ostensibly dealing with "envelopegate", the public and private battle between "La La Land" and "Midnight" culminating in that Historical Gaffe when Warren Beatty was handed the wrong envelope and announced that the Oscar went to the former rather than the latter, is so overtly woke that Donald Trump appears on 12 pages, usually gratuitously and invariably in a negative context. And why not, after all? This point of view merely acknowledges that the Oscars have always involved under-currents and politics and that the current themes are racial and gender identity. So if that's your cup of tea, as it is clearly the author's, you've come to the right place. Drink deep!