It wasn’t until Damien and Mason’s exhaustively researched book was released in 1986 that we had something that told with living, breathing detail the Oscar story of each year from the release of the major contenders to the campaigns to the “big night” with all the juicy tidbits added for good measure. Eventually this changed and by the 1970s we had picture books of winners with nominees listed in the top five or six categories with winners in other categories noted. The first books on Academy history listed just the winners in the top three categories. Annual almanacs listed winners in the major categories, but that was it. Until the mid-1960s there were no reference books on Oscar nominees and winners. Most of all he was passionate about the movies and did something about it.īefore Inside Oscar, which he co-wrote with Columbia University classmate Mason Wiley, information on the Oscars was hard to come by. I’ve known Damien through his books for more than twenty-five years and personally for about half that time although I met him in person just once, almost ten years ago.ĭamien was passionate about many things, from the San Francisco Giants to the Broadway Theatre from liberal politics to good food.
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