The Academy Awards: The Complete Unofficial History Revised and Updated | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jim Piazza, Gail Kinn
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
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Edition: 5th
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ISBN: 157912772X
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Product Description
THE definitive guide to the Academy Awards, from the very first ceremony to this year's 80th anniversary spectacular, includes EVERY nominee and winner in EVERY category—and has been fully updated to include the most recent winners and losers, unforgettable photographs, and highlights.
Written by film experts who are sought out every year for their insider knowledge of movies and Hollywood, this book is both a comprehensive reference and a detailed history of the Academy Awards, complete with each year's facts, highlights, and controversies—all told with authority and attitude.
Packed with more than 500 photographs from the Oscar ceremonies and red carpet as well as the movies themselves, it outdoes any other book on the market in both information and illustrations. And compared to boring "official" books with less reportage and much less color, this "unauthorized" book delivers what fans want most: ALL the facts, enhanced by juicy commentary and pictures galore.
Now in its fourth edition, it’s the most popular, comprehensive, lavishly illustrated, and enjoyable Oscar book out there.
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 Nice to own...after you've bought all the rest... February 10, 2008
S. Ferrer (Miami, Florida United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
it's a nice book to have but Inside Oscar is sooo much better (specially Inside Oscar 2), so is Tom O Neill's Movie Awards which has a lot of inside info, not like Inside Oscar, but at least you get a look at every other awards show.
The problem with this book is that all you get are trivia facts from just the winners, and only for the four acting winners, director and picture, plus an hororary or a Thalberg, at best you'll get a small paragraph of the whole evening but it isn't enough. And as a person who owns Inside Oscar and has read ONeill's book a thousand times, you can tell that many of the comentaries are borrowed from those books as the phrases, sentences, words are the same.
But who cares right? At least you have a book that's nice to look at the has a lot of correct facts....WRONG! It has an incredible amount of mistakes. Everytime you get to a year were the current winner has won something before they tell you, for example, "for more on Beatty go to 1981" meaning Beatty who got a Thalberg or an Honorary in 99 also won in 81 and there's more info there. But the book actually tells when you're on Beatty and his special award from 1999 to go to 1961 something when he wasn't even nominated and there's nothing on him. Same goes with Dustin Hoffman, they tell you "for more on Hoffman go to 1979"...problem is...you're already on 1979...
They say Robert DeNiro has been in 3 Oscar winning movies...I asume they mean Best Pictures...DeNiro's only been in The Godfather II and Deer Hunter...what's the third one?
The say Sean Penn won a Globe for Dead Man Walking and he said "you tolerate me, you really tolerate me" like Sally Field in 84. In reality Penn said this at the Indie Spirit awards.
Sometimes you get as much as 5, 6 mistakes per year, which is a lot considering each year has about 2, 3 pages.
At times they'll say "he's been nominated 5 times" counting every single nomination until the book was edited, even if you're still in 1950. Then they'll do it the other way, they'll say how many nominations somebody has up util that certain year you're reading, even if they got 2, 3 more nods along the way. They couldn't even make a decision on that.
You want more mistakes? Here you go....In 1979 they say "Hoffman nominated 5 times with two wins" meaning they're already counting all the way through 88 when he won number 2 including that nod, which was his 6th not his 5th. And they didn't count his 7th in 97 for Wag the Dog.
Jodie Foster "earning 3 Oscar nods with 1 win"...She has 4 nods. If they're gonna count until 2005 for some people, they should do it for everybody.
Meryl Stree in 79: "winning Academy Awards and ten nominations"...they don't say how many she won....and by 2005 she had 13 nominations, not 10.
And this is all from the newest edition....some of the mistakes must've been there in past editions, they didn't even go back and read it all again to correct mistakes...
 Inaccurate and Misleading April 1, 2007
D. Rupprecht (Bodega Bay, Calif., USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
There are so many errors of various kinds in this book that it really is difficult to list them all! I've read a number of books about the Oscars over the years and I've been an avid follower and trivia buff of all things Oscar since the 60s, but I've never read a book about the Academy Awards that was as sloppy, inaccurate and error-ridden as this one! This book has many glaring and blatant errors - the mind reels! Obviously the authors didn't bother proofreading and checking the facts. To those unfamiliar with Oscar history (and Oscar trivia) who are reading this book for the first time, they will be misled since everything's presented as fact and truth in this terribly written book. I'm glad I bought an inexpensive copy since buying it full price would have been an even bigger waste of money. If you want to know anything about the Oscars, BUY ANY OTHER BOOK BUT THIS ONE!
 Intersting with great images....but could've used a good editing and fact check February 3, 2007
W. C. Holston
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There are so many mistakes in here...read the reviews for a highlight reel. I'll point out another one not listed: at the end of each year, there are lists of the nominees with the winner highlighted in yellow. Michael Caine nomination for 'Alfie' in highlighted depite the fact he lost.
a very poor effort November 20, 2006
Timothy J. Dunn (Hazard, KY USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is not only poorly edited and proofread, as a previous reviewer said, it is INCREDIBLY poorly edited and proofread. Also, it is not well written. Some entries are very sparase--it seems that the writers know nothing of the movie being honored, or the actor or actress winning the trophy, or the role for which they are winning. Did these writers even bother to see "A Passage to India"? You wouldn't know it from their discussion of Peggy Ashcroft's best supporting actress win. They wonder at Dianne Wiest forgetting to thank Woody Allen when she won her first Oscar for "Hannah and Her Sisters" remarking that Wiest was a frequent star of Allen's movies--but "Hannah" was her first movie with Allen. A lot of similar nonsense throughout the book, but it seems to get worse as we get closer to the present, and the carelessness becomes more and more enfuritating.
 I Haven't Missed The Oscars For More Than 37 Years! September 22, 2006
R. McRae (Saugus, CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Since my Junior High School years, I've been an avid fan of Oscar night, and the whole history of the Academy Awards and its winners. I guess I'll always love movies, and the allure of Hollywood, having lived in L.A. all my life, and being an aspiring actor in my younger years. In High School as a hobby, I and my best friend and fellow drama student, use to bet who could pick the most winners from each category every year. There is something about Oscar night, and all the glamour that goes with it, that keeps me glued to the set every year; first to hear the nominations, then the big ceremomy to announce the winners. And this book is up-to-date; from the very first winners of 1927, to 2005 and the surprise of "Crash" taking Best Picture honors (my personal favorite). If you enjoy films, and specificly The Academy Awards as much as I do, then you'll love this book.
I relate each years winners and nominees, to historic events and lifestyles of the times. Sort of an insight into what was going on then.
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