The Academy Awards: The Complete Unofficial History

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This richly illustrated and glorious celebration of 76 years of Oscar® includes every juicy detail and lots of photos of the films honored at the 2004 ceremony, as well as complete coverage of the festivities. As before, every Oscar year from the very beginning (1927!) is fully covered--every nominee and winner plus lots of facts, gossip, and commentary. And the text is embellished with more than 500 dramatic photographs of the winning films and artists.

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Placing the Academy: Essays on Landscape, Work, and Identity

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Placing the Academy: Essays on Landscape, Work, and Identity Feature

A set of creative writers here responds to the call for literature that addresses who we are by understanding where we are—where, for each of them, being somehow part of the academy. Their personal essays delineate the diverse, sometimes unexpected roles of place in shaping them, as writers and teachers in varied environments, through unique experiences and distinctive worldviews—in reconfiguring their conjunctions of identity and setting, here, there, everywhere, and in between.

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The Academy Awards: The Complete History of Oscar

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Film buffs will celebrate the arrival of this definitive book on the Academy Awards: it is the biggest and best look at movie-making's winners from the 1920s to today. great stories; actors, actresses and directors at the pinnacle of their careers; the winners; who should have won; deserving films that did not get nominated; fascinating film facts; an inside look at film history spanning 75 years; The book contains a comprehensive list of all the nominations and winners for each year, and includes more than 500 movie stills. Each award ceremony is captured on a four-page spread filled with fascinating features, quotes from the movies and Oscar moments. More fun because it is completely unauthorised, the book also explores the gaffs and glorious moments from the award ceremonies, plus educated opinions about the winners and losers.

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