The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

by Bruce Davis

Book Overview

The first behind-the-scenes history of the organization behind the Academy Awards.

For all the near-fanatic attention brought each year to the Academy Awards, the organization that dispenses those awards--the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences--has yet to be understood. To date, no one has ever produced a thorough account of the Academy's birth and its awkward adolescence, and the few reports on those periods from outside have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684581192
• ISBN13: 9781684581191
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"