Uniquely, this encyclopedia lists every actor and actress ever to have won or been nominated for an Academy Award up to and including winners and nominees from the 1998 Awards ceremony. Each performer in the four acting categories is profiled, and the lively pen portraits are full of fascinating Oscar facts, amusing showbiz anecdotes and snippets of memorable movie dialogue.
'Oscar Stars' covers seventy years of Academy Awards, from the presentation of the first Oscars in May 1929 to 1998. Over 700 film starts are assembled in this essential reference book, liberally scattered with tempting nuggets of information that will keep even the most devoted of movie buffs entertained.
