Oscar wars : a history of Hollywood in gold, sweat, and tears

Schulman covers all the major scandals in the history of the Academy Awards, from the award's inception to Will Smith's slap of Chris Rock in 2022. Some of the more entertaining chapters cover the feud between sisters Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland; the campaign by William Randolph Hearst to torpedo Citizen Kane's Oscar chances; and the ill-advised Snow White opening musical number for the 1989 ceremony, dubbed "the worst Oscars ever." In recent years, the Academy's membership has rapidly diversified to counteract the "Oscars So White" controversy; and in 2015, not a single acting nominee was a person of color.