Oscar Podcast Continues with 2nd Academy Awards

Ryan Adams, Craig Kennedy and I brought back the historical Academy Awards podcasts to revisit 1929/1930, the year when the Academy was pressured to change their voting from a select committee who picked the winners to the entire membership voting on the winners.  Back then the branches still chose the nominees, as they continue to do today. Mary Pickford was part of the reason for the change as she and many of the Academy founders kept winning the awards.  It was also the year Louise Brooks starred in Pandora’s Box, though it didn’t get anywhere near Oscar. We discuss the two Oscars in one year (there were two ceremonies, one in April and one in November) and the Louise Brooks film. Have a listen.

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