内容简介：
This is both history and appreciation of the Academy Awards ceremony, full of inside stories and little-known facts. The Academy Awards ceremony has close to one billion viewers every year. How has this event grown, in some 75 years, from an intimate gathering of directors and actors to a global phenomenon that dominates magazine, newspapers, radio, TV and even the Internet? This account contains information on such facts as: who came up with the idea for the Academy Awards; who is the youngest winner; the oldest?; which film has the most nominations; who has been nominated the most times without winning; and where did the award get is name? Included are all the facts and statistics, as well as film stills, nostalgic and new, to tell the inside story of Oscar and what the awards really say about our times.