Everyone – As part of our Oscar Contest, we will be talking virtually on Zoom with the following experts on all things Oscar and the Motion Picture Academy

· Thursday, February 16^th 6:30pm – Bruce Davis author of The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Considering its incredibly high profile, it is shocking that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the organization behind the Academy Awards, has yet to be deeply explored. Mr. Davis, Executive Director of the Academy for twenty years, tells a revealing and compelling story of the people, famous and infamous, who shaped a marginal organization that teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, into what became a juggernaut in the entertainment industry and a major cultural institution.

· Thursday, March 2^nd 6:30pm – Michael Schulman author of Oscar Wars

While many other books on the Oscars act as yearbooks with encyclopedic coverage of every ceremony, Oscar Wars is narrative-driven and selective: each of the book’s eleven chapters takes a deep dive into a particular year, category or conflict that represented a turning point for the Oscars, for Hollywood, or for the culture at large. Oscar Wars is deeply researched and supported with extensive interviews with Hollywood insiders, and features never-before-seen correspondence and documents from the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library.

  I hope you can join us! You can register for each program by visiting the Library website (www.dearbornlibrary.org) and click on the Events Calendar and Registration Link.

Dan Lodge

Librarian I Adult Services

Dearborn Public Library

Dearborn, MI