The Greatest Show on Earth; The History of the Oscar Award; The Oscar - King of the Showbiz Awards?; Hunks, Leading Ladies, and Second Bananas - The Nomination; The Luck of the British; Winning the Oscar; Is the Oscar a White Man's Award?; The Oscar-Winners - Niopictures and Problem Dramas; The Oscar-Winners - The Masculine Genres: Historical Epics, War Film, and Westerns; The Oscar-Winners - Comedies and Musicals; The Oscar and the Foreign-Language Picture; Boys Will Be Boys and Girls Will Be Girls - The Oscar-Winning Roles; The Importance of Being Eccentric; The Oscar as a Popularity Contest; From Total Embracement to Outright Rejection - The Various Meanings of the Oscar Award; I Would Like to Thank...The Acceptance Speeches; The Oscars' Huge Impact; Oscaritis - The Oscars' Negative Effects; Can the Oscar Be Bought; Strange Bedfellows? The Oscar and Politics; Noble and Heroic - Oscar's Middlebrow Sensibility; Conclusion - The Oscar, Hollywood, and American Culture; Awards in Six Categories by Year; Best Picture Winners and Nominees by Genre; The Oscar-Winners by Nominations, Awards, and Appeal; The Most Nominated Films; The Ten Highest Grossing Oscar Winners; Best Picture Winners by Year and Date of Release; Best Picture Winners by Year and Running Time; Best Foreign-Language Winners by Year and Country.
Emanuel Levy is senior film critic for Variety and two-time president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. He is the author of several books, including Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film; and George Cukor: Master of Elegance. Levy divides his time between Phoenix and Los Angeles. For more information, visit his website www.EmanuelLevy.com
"Oscar fans will treasure Oscar Fever for its trove of statistical
jewels; the other 5 billion of us will find vindication in Levy's
erudite assessment of the longest and most self-indulgent movie ad
in the world."
- The Baltimore Sun, July 22, 2001
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