In 2003 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences celebrated the diamond (75th) anniversary of the Academy Awards. What began as an organizational banquet for several-hundred industry insiders has grown to an unequaled international spectacle viewed by more than one billion people. This book is an entirely new version of Emanuel Levy¿s critically acclaimed ¿Oscar Fever.¿ It is both history & appreciation, chockablock with inside stories & little-known facts. All statistics & tables have been updated & completely new information has been added on all 432 nominated films. Even more comprehensive than before, ¿All about Oscar¿ makes us look at the Academy Awards with a fresh vision. Illustrations.

Examines the political, ideological, and artistic roles of the Habima theater between its founding in Moscow in 1917 to the 1970s. It attempts to identify underlying patterns of change in the roles, structure, and functions of the Habima theater, with its major objective to describe the specific changes in its ideology, mission, repertoire, organization, and audiences between 1917 and 1977 and to analyze the causes and consequences of those changes.