EPISODE 26 - “Oscar Fever: A Brief History of the Academy Awards” - 03/10/2024

The winners. The losers. The speeches. The gowns. The glamour. The cringey moments. Nothing toys with a film lovers’ emotions like the pageantry of the Academy Award ceremony…or the Oscars, as it has become known. Somewhere, right now, there are people still arguing over whether GRACE KELLY deserved to win the Best Actress Oscar in 1955 for “The Country Girl” over JUDY GARLAND for “A Star Is Born.” The Oscars breeds its own drama. We’ve had streakers, protests, Rob Lowe dancing with Snow White, stolen Oscar statues, mixed up winner’s envelopes, and even a slap heard round the world. Join us in a very special episode that dives into the history, controversies, and fun facts of the Oscars. 

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Sources:

Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears (2023), by Michael Schulman; 

Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards (1986), by Mason Wiley and Damien Bona;

The Real Oscar: The Story Behind The Academy Awards (1981), by Peter H. Brown;

Seventy-Five Years of the Oscars: The Official History of The Academy Awards (2003), by Robert Osborne;

Oscar Dearest (1987), by Peter H. Brown and Jim Pinkston;

The Film Encyclopedia (1994), By Ephraim Katz;

Leonard Maltin’s Movie Encyclopedia (1994), by Leonard Maltin;

“The Academy’s Guide to Movies, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,” A.frame.oscars.org;

“The Silent Oscars,” February 8, 2014, moviessilently.com;

“… It’s the Oscars that Got Small,” March 7, 2023, by Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times;

“The House That Mr. Mayer Built: Inside the Union-Busting Birth of the Academy Awards,” February 21, 2014, by David Thomson, Vanity Fair;

IMDBPro.com;

Wikipedia.org;

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