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Five of the Best Books About the Oscars to Read Ahead of This Year’s Academy Awards


From "Oscar Wars" to "50 Oscar Nights," here are the best books about the Oscars to read ahead of this year's awards ceremony.

If you can’t get into the ultra-exclusive and star-studded Vanity Fair Oscar Party, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, then this coffee table book offers the second-best thing. For the past decade, photographer Mark Seliger has set up an elaborate pop-up studio inside the annual after-party , producing exquisite portraits of Hollywood’s A-list personalities in the immediate afterglow of cinema’s biggest event of the year. Go through the questions and answers as a way to hone your memory of the nominees and winners, or use the workbook as a trivia game with friends during an Oscars watch party on Sunday.

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