Ebook {Epub PDF} Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards by Mason Wiley

 · Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards. by. Mason Wiley, Damien Bona. · Rating details · ratings · 15 reviews. A social history of our place and time Mr. Wiley and Mr. Bona have found just the right tone for writing /5. Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards by Damien Bona and Mason Wiley (, Trade Paperback, Revised edition) The lowest-priced item that has been used or worn previously. The item may have some signs of cosmetic wear, but is fully operational and functions as intended. The Academy Awards are a contest as competitive, and sometimes just as dirty, as the race for the White House. Mason Wiley and Damien Bona's "Inside Oscar" is the "Gone With the Wind" of Oscar books, the only one that fully details the tasteless and sometimes cutthroat tactics that have been employed to impress Oscar, Hollywood's most enduring superstar/5(26).

''George C. Scott called it a meat parade, but I call it an ivory parade,'' said Mason Wiley, who, with Damien Bona, wrote a gossipy book about the Academy Awards called ''Inside Oscar: The. Bona, the co-author, with Mason Wiley, of "Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards," died last month. The writer-director Bill Condon. Inside Oscar: the unofficial history of the Academy Awards Item Preview remove-circle the unofficial history of the Academy Awards by Wiley, Mason. Publication date Topics Academy Awards This volume focuses on the Academy Awards ceremony and other events connected with it. Each chapter contains an overview of the film year.

pages: 25 cm. This volume focuses on the Academy Awards ceremony and other events connected with it. Each chapter contains an overview of the film year. It gives dates for each annual ceremony, location, host, who presented the major awards that year, as well as who performed the nominated songs. The authors cover the ceremony itself from the entrances, where stars display their gowns and escorts, to the handing out of the awards. Inside Oscar: the unofficial history of the Academy Awards Inside Oscar: the unofficial history of the Academy Awards by Wiley, Mason. Publication date Topics. Mason Wiley, co-author of one of the definitive works on the Academy Awards, has died in New York City. Gilbert Cole, his longtime companion, said that Wiley was 39 when he died from the complications of AIDS on Oct. 7. Wiley had been seriously ill for about two years. With fellow Columbia University classmate Damien Bona, Wiley in wrote a year-by-year account of the fantasies and foibles of the Oscar presentations.