Hollywood’s Oscar ceremony is like the Super Bowl for cinema lovers. But beyond the clothes, the speeches, and the musical numbers, it’s all about the winners. And some leave us scratching our heads. Did How Green Was My Valley really deserve the Best Picture Oscar over Citizen Kane in 1941? How did CARY GRANT and MYRNA LOY never win competitive Oscars? And who the hell is LUISE RAINER, and how did she rob IRENE DUNNE and BARBARA STANWYCK of their Oscars? Join STEVE CUBINE, writer of the Emmy-Award winning series Break A Hip, and NAN MCNAMARA, renowned actress and director, as they discuss some of the most baffling Oscar fumbles in the history of the Academy Awards.

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Sources:

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

They Didn’t Win The Oscar (1980), by Bill Libby;

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 MGM Stock Company (1973), by James Robert Parish & Ronald L. Bowers;

The Film Encyclopedia (1994), By Ephraim Katz;

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

imdb.com;

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