Best Pick: A Journey through Film History and the Academy Awards
Autor John Dorney, Jessica Regan, Tom Salinsky Cuvânt înainte de Helen O'Haraen Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 feb 2025
In Best Pick: A Journey through Film History and the Academy Awards, John Dorney, Jessica Regan, and Tom Salinsky provide a captivating decade-by-decade exploration of the Oscars. For each decade, they examine the making of classic films, trends and innovations in cinema, behind-the-scenes scandals at the awards ceremony, and who won and why. Twenty films are reviewed in-depth, alongside ten detailed "making-of" accounts and capsule reviews of every single Best Picture winner in history. In addition, each Best Picture winner is carefully scrutinized to answer the ultimate question: "Did the Academy get it right?"
Full of wonderful stories, cogent analysis, and fascinating insights, Best Pick is a witty and enthralling look at the people, politics, movies, and trends that have shaped our cinematic world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9798881808662
Pagini: 332
Ilustrații: 10 tables
Dimensiuni: 150 x 228 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Pagini: 332
Ilustrații: 10 tables
Dimensiuni: 150 x 228 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Cuprins
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
A pedantic note about years
Chapter 1: The 1920s
Chapter 2: The 1930s
Chapter 3: The 1940s
Chapter 4: The 1950s
Chapter 5: The 1960s
Chapter 6: The 1970s
Chapter 7: The 1980s
Chapter 8: The 1990s
Chapter 9: The 2000s
Chapter 10: The 2010s
Afterword
Appendix: Our cinematic journey
Notes
Index
About the Authors
Foreword
Introduction
A pedantic note about years
Chapter 1: The 1920s
Chapter 2: The 1930s
Chapter 3: The 1940s
Chapter 4: The 1950s
Chapter 5: The 1960s
Chapter 6: The 1970s
Chapter 7: The 1980s
Chapter 8: The 1990s
Chapter 9: The 2000s
Chapter 10: The 2010s
Afterword
Appendix: Our cinematic journey
Notes
Index
About the Authors
Recenzii
Drawing from their award-winning podcast, actor and writer Dorney, actor and audio artist Jessica Regan, and Tom Salinsky take readers on a warm and witty trip through motion picture history, weaving in the story of the Academy Awards. Decade by decade, they explore the Oscars, who won them and why, and what happened backstage. Each chapter begins with lists of the decade's best pictures and its biggest earners, and the contrasts between the two are striking. The authors examine film trends and technical innovations in moviemaking and provide brief reviews the winners of the Best Picture award thus far, as well as immensely entertaining discussions that attempt to answer the question, "Did the Academy get it right?" (Midnight Cowboy is dubbed "a deeply affecting and confidently made film"; the authors critique the racism of The Green Book and its use of the white savior trope.) Rounding it out is an extensive bibliography. Neither dry academic treatise nor gushing fanzine, this is an informative and entertaining book for anyone who adores movies, written by three people who love them and are adept at expressing their views. A treat for movie fans: Two thumbs up!
Best Pick is a casual read that takes the business of Oscar-winning seriously. The three authors successfully harness their podcast chemistry for edifying debate and discussion over the Academy's top picks.
Best Pick is the book for the awards show obsessive in your life-not only does it provide the cold hard Oscar facts we all need for our next movie trivia night, but it provides essential, incisive cultural and cinematic context to understand the history of the Academy Awards and the films and filmmakers awarded throughout the last century.
Witty, irreverent, and packed with fabulous detail, John Dorney, Jessica Regan, and Tom Salinsky's freewheeling Oscar appreciation peels back the tinsel to find the grain and texture behind 92 years of Academy history. Best Pick marries expert analysis with the red-blooded passion of natural-born cineastes and cuts through the hype to show the annual Academy Awards for what they are: a crap-shoot, a fashion parade, a random snapshot of a single moment in time that, more by luck than design, sometimes catches the right film in the frame. Smart, funny, and beautifully argued, Best Pick shows us that the Oscars have never been the best and definitive word on anything, although this book may be the best and definitive word on them.
Best Pick is a casual read that takes the business of Oscar-winning seriously. The three authors successfully harness their podcast chemistry for edifying debate and discussion over the Academy's top picks.
Best Pick is the book for the awards show obsessive in your life-not only does it provide the cold hard Oscar facts we all need for our next movie trivia night, but it provides essential, incisive cultural and cinematic context to understand the history of the Academy Awards and the films and filmmakers awarded throughout the last century.
Witty, irreverent, and packed with fabulous detail, John Dorney, Jessica Regan, and Tom Salinsky's freewheeling Oscar appreciation peels back the tinsel to find the grain and texture behind 92 years of Academy history. Best Pick marries expert analysis with the red-blooded passion of natural-born cineastes and cuts through the hype to show the annual Academy Awards for what they are: a crap-shoot, a fashion parade, a random snapshot of a single moment in time that, more by luck than design, sometimes catches the right film in the frame. Smart, funny, and beautifully argued, Best Pick shows us that the Oscars have never been the best and definitive word on anything, although this book may be the best and definitive word on them.