80 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the

By Robert Osborne

80 Years of the Oscar, the latest revised edition of this best-selling tome, covers the Oscars awarded through the eightieth ceremony on February 24, 2008. Robert Osborne takes readers on a star-studded journey through the best of film, illustrated with pictures and stills from the Academy's archives. Throughout the book, vivid color and black-and-white photographs bring the films and ceremonies to life. Over 700 celebrity and movie stills are included, as is the official key-art poster for each year's Best Picture winner. Organized by decade, 80 Years of the Oscar details the accomplishments, trends, developments, and events that occurred during each ten-year period, both within the Academy and the film industry as a whole. This encyclopedic resource also provides a year-by-year glimpse of the Award ceremonies, including the award nominees and winners in each category and memorable moments of the evening's events.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078950992X
• ISBN13: 9780789509925
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Abbeville Kids