Bruce Davis

The first behind-the-scenes history of the organization behind the Academy Awards. For all the near-fanatic attention brought each year to the Academy Awards, the organization that dispenses those awards—the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—has yet to be understood. To date, no one has ever produced a thorough account of the Academy's birth and its awkward adolescence, and the...

The first behind-the-scenes history of the organisation behind the Academy Awards. For all the near-fanatic attention brought each year to the Academy Awards, the organisation that dispenses those awards—the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—has never been well-understood. The organisation itself has never produced a thorough account of its birth and its touch-and-go adolescence, and the few reports on...