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Title: Movie Awards : The Ultimate, Unofficial Guide to the Oscars, Golden Globes, Critics, Guild and Indie Honors by Thomas O'Neil, Tom O'Neil, Peter Bart ISBN: 0-399-52651-X Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Extraordinarily Useful Book!
Comment: I have had this book now for the past three years, and it is one of the most useful movie reference books on my rather long movie reference shelf. Not only do I use it frequently when I write an amazon customer review, but I have found it very helpful in planning my movie purchases and rentals. This is not a film guide; there are no reviews and no ratings. But it has the complete list of nominations of more than a dozen different organizations. One gains a perspective from comparing the lists for a given year that cannot be gained from only reading the reviews of a few respected critics. To a large degree, just to have been in a nomination list is rating enough. (Of course, the reviews of Roger Ebert, Leonard Maltin, Leslie Halliwell, and the Time Out critics, and others are important too.) The discussion of what went on each year inside the awarding organization also makes fascinating reading.
Not surprisingly, I have found the most useful movie lists for learning what I have missed to be not the Oscar lists but those of the National Board of Review and the Golden Globes. Except for this book, I don't know where else to find these. This is a great book to browse in. I recommend it hightly.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Perfect Handbook
Comment: Thomas O'Neil's "Movie Awards" is an absolutely no lose purchase for even a casual movie maven. Serious movie fans should be enthralled. It's all here-all the important awards from 1927-1999. Listed are such disparate grantors as the New York Film Critics, the Writer's Guild, the Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild, the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards.
Trivia and solid information alike abounds. This reviewer was shocked-shocked!-to read that "The Searchers" was nominated for NO awards in 1956. The pages devoted to 1969 make no mention of the Hollywood aphorism that John Wayne received that year's Best Actor Oscar (for "True Grit") to make up for being bypassed in 1956. The entire cast and Director of "The Searchers" was ignored! I also learned that Clark Gable did not win the Oscar for "Gone With the Wind" and that Tex Ritter's theme to "High Noon" won an Oscar in 1952. I still believe that is the best of the themes because it was an integral part of the actual movie. A trivia section informs us that Walter Brennan won the most Academy Awards for an actor (though not for "My Darling Clementine") and William Friedkin was the youngest Director to an Oscar. For which movie? Buy the book and check page 767. The very fact that there IS a page 767 indicates that this work cannot be devoured at one or two sittings. This is a thick handbook to be appreciated over a span of time as we watch those old classics one by one. Maybe when I read the section on 1949, I will learn why "The Third Man' got 0 Oscar nominations and why the entire cast of "A Letter to 3 Wives" went similarly empty handed. I can't wait.
Rating: 5
Summary: A continuing tradition of excellence
Comment: Mr. O'Neil has done it again! His new book, Movie Awards, is fun to read and chock full of fascinating facts. Long a fan of his (I always watch him on E! network), I'm happy to see Mr. O'Neil finally take on the Oscars, having already covered the Emmy's and Grammy's previously. This book is a great read and is even more fun savored over the course of time as you pick out one fun fact...then another....then another...
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Title: The Emmys: The Ultimate, Unofficial Guide to the Battle of Tv's Best Shows and Greatest Stars by Thomas O'Neil, Peter Bart ISBN: 0399526110 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: 10 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Tony Award : A Complete Listing of Winners and Nominees with a History of the American Theatre Wing by American Theatre Wing ISBN: 0325002940 Publisher: Heinemann Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Inside Oscar, 10th Anniversary Edition by Mason Wiley, Damien Bona ISBN: 0345400534 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 19 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Inside Oscar 2 by Damien Bona ISBN: 0345449703 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: 75 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards (Seventy Years of the Oscar, 4th Ed) by Robert A. Osborne ISBN: 0789207877 Publisher: Abbeville Press, Inc. Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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