Best Pick: A Journey through Film History and the Academy Awards
John Dorney, "Best Pick: A Journey through Film History and the Academy Awards"
English | ISBN: 1538163101 | 2022 | 332 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1538163101 | 2022 | 332 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
A fascinating history of motion pictures through the lens of the Academy Awards, the Best Picture winners, and the box-office contenders.
In Best Pick: A Journey through Film History and the Academy Awards, John Dorney, Jessica Regan, and Tom Salinsky provide a captivating decade-by-decade exploration of the Oscars. For each decade, they examine the making of classic films, trends and innovations in cinema, behind-the-scenes scandals at the awards ceremony, and who won and why. Twenty films are reviewed in-depth, alongside ten detailed “making-of” accounts and capsule reviews of every single Best Picture winner in history. In addition, each Best Picture winner is carefully scrutinized to answer the ultimate question: “Did the Academy get it right?”
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