Who Should Have Won the Oscars? If you've ever wondered why the Oscars seem to go to the wrong movies, WHO Won?!? is the book for you. Beginning with the first Oscar ceremony, Robert James looks at all the major categories, slashing and burning his way through the bad, praising the good, and offering the best for your consideration. A comic, biting analysis of hundreds of films, WHO Won?!? is a guide to the wonderful movies you missed - and a warning against the ones you should never have seen in the first place. Volume One, 1927-1943 covers the Golden Age of Hollywood, from the death of the silent picture to the heights of studio Hollywood. Year by year, the author considers and discusses the Academy's choices, as well as those which should have been nominated, finishing each category with those which should have won. He often includes some of the history behind the making of the films, as well as how the movies reflect on America. More than just an examination of the choices the Academy made (or should have made), WHO Won?!? provides a yearbook of American cinema, both glorious and disastrous. Deftly switching from the ridiculous to the sublime and back again, WHO Won?!? will leave you both laughing and thinking.

WHO Won?!? An Irreverent Look at the Oscars, Volume 1: 1927-1943

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If you've ever wondered why the Oscars seem to go to the wrong movies, WHO Won?!? is the book for you. Robert James looks at all the major categories, slashing and burning his way through the bad, praising the good, and offering the best for your consideration. A comic, biting analysis of hundreds of films, WHO Won?!? is a guide to the wonderful movies you missed - and a warning against the ones you should never have seen in the first place. As Norma Desmond says in Sunset Blvd., in here, it's "...just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark!" This time around, we take up the moonlit shadows and night terrors of Hollywood from 1944-1952, as the studio system begins collapsing and the censorship boards show their first fracturing. Hollywood dimmed the lights as film noir emerged, along with more serious, adult pictures. Sadly, the arrival of television also pushed Hollywood into producing more Big Dumb Movies, although the rise of spectacle could sometimes pay off. The Supreme Court would break up the studios. Congress would do even more damage by launching an investigation of Hollywood, driving the studios to stop making more than a handful of pictures for mature minds while they frantically searched for some new way to bring people back into the theaters. At the same time, Hollywood would begin its own persecution with the blacklist, driving many out of work, even as it drove itself into a corner with little room to do anything but play it safe. Don't miss the early years of film history in Volume 1 of WHO Won?!? covering 1927-1943.

WHO Won?!? An Irreverent Look at the Oscars, Volume 2: 1944-1952

Who Should Have Won the Oscars?If you've ever wondered why the Oscars seem to go to the wrong movies, WHO Won?!? is the book for you. Beginning with the first Oscar ceremony, Robert James looks at all the major categories, slashing and burning his way through the bad, praising the good, and offering the best for your consideration. A comic, biting analysis of hundreds of films, WHO Won?!? is a guide to the wonderful movies you missed - and a warning against the ones you should never have seen in the first place.Volume Three welcomes us to the funeral for studio Hollywood, complete with a drunken wake, talented visitors from foreign lands, and all the excess that grieving alcohol, money, and terror can provide

WHO Won?!? An Irreverent Look at the Oscars, Volume 3: 1953-1963

Who Should Have Won the Oscars? If you've ever wondered why the Oscars seem to go to the wrong movies, WHO Won?!? is the book for you. Beginning with the first Oscar ceremony, Robert James looks at all the major categories, slashing and burning his way through the bad, praising the good, and offering the best for your consideration. A comic, biting analysis of hundreds of films, WHO Won?!? is a guide to the wonderful movies you missed - and a warning against the ones you should never have seen in the first place. Volume Four takes us to the battles over the body of studio Hollywood, as the knives come out at the reading of the will, while the Old Fogies battle off the Young Turks, complete with massive budgets, brief nudity, and bloodshed, both real and imagined.

WHO Won?!? An Irreverent Look at the Oscars, Volume 4: 1964-1970 (WHO Won?!? An Irreverent Look at the Oscars)

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WHO Won?!? An Irreverent Look at the Oscars, Volume 1: 1927-1943

WHO Won?!? An Irreverent Look at the Oscars, Volume 2: 1944-1952

WHO Won?!? An Irreverent Look at the Oscars, Volume 3: 1953-1963

WHO Won?!? An Irreverent Look at the Oscars, Volume 4: 1964-1970 (WHO Won?!? An Irreverent Look at the Oscars)