The Oscar Stars from A to Z

Every Academy Award-winning actor and every nominee, from 1927 through 1998, are featured in more than 700 detailed A-Z entries. Updated and now in paperback, featuring 80 film stills. The Oscar Stars from A-Z uniquely features every actor and actress ever to have won or been nominated for an Academy Award. Each performer in the four categories--best actor and actress, best supporting actor and actress--is profiled, incorporating quotes from the stars themselves as well as amusing anecdotes and snippets of outstanding movie dialogue. As informative as it is entertaining, it covers more than 70 years of Awards; and, for the first time, the losers as well as the winners get their due. Roy Pickard's lively entries are full of details that will surprise even the most devoted film buffs, and a generous selection of classic film stills adds to the enjoyment. Roy Pickard has written many books on the cinema, including his best-selling The Oscar Movies. 448 pp 6 x 9 8 pp b/w photos