'Oscar® Studies' For Free!

Film Studies For Free is almost beside itself with excitement in the run-up to the annual awards ceremony of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It's seen most of the main nominated films; it's read some of the coolest Oscar® previews (here and here); it has its (digital) digits tightly crossed (almost certainly in vain) for its favourites (and other nominated soft spots: 1 and 2); and it's worked out which live blogging coverage it will follow on that starry, starry night.

So now all it wants is what it always (really, really) wants: to spread relevant free Film Studies knowledge far and wide. Here goes, then, with a (mostly for-fun) round-up of online 'Oscar Studies' and other related resources of note, including, for the first time in FSFF's limited but noble history, a somewhat scary number of medical links:

• 'Academy Awards' Wikipedia pages
• The Official Academy Awards® Database
• Lisa Kernan, 'Hollywood on the Head of a Pin: Montage and Marketing at the Oscars®', Mediascape, Spring 2005 (PDF version)
• Benjamin Kramer, 'The Economy of Media Events: Theory and Examples', International Journal of Communication 2 (2008), 909-924
• Derek Boles , 'Analyzing Oscar: Deconstructing the Academy Awards', Mediacy, Winter 1994
• Le Han and Lushan Shi, 'The "Brokeback Mountain"of Chinese Media: A Case Study of Chinese Media Construction of Nationalism on Reporting of 78th Academy Award[s]', Paper presented at the annual meeting of the NCA 93rd Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, Nov 15, 2007
• 'Million Dollar Booboo, Or Are the Oscars Still Golden?'March 23, 2005 in Knowledge at Wharton
• George Davey Smith, 'Death in Hollywood: Any relation between self worth and mortality is uncertain', BMJ. 2001 December 22; 323(7327): 1441–1442
• Donald A. Redelmeier and Sheldon M. Singh, 'Survival in Academy Award–Winning Actors and Actresses', BMJ. 2001 Dec 22-29;323(7327):1491-6
• DA Redelmeier and SM Singh, 'Longevity of screenwriters who win an academy award: longitudinal study', BMJ. 2001 December 22; 323(7327): 1491–1496
• DA Redelmeier and SM Singh, 'Reanalysis of Survival of Oscar Winners', Annals of Internal Medicine. 2006, 145:392-392
• Dean K. Simonton, 'Film awards as indicators of cinematic creativity and achievement: A quantitative comparison of the Oscars and six alternatives', Creativity Research Journal. 16 (2-3), pp. 163-172 added March 22, 2009
• MP Sylvestre, E Huszti, and JA Hanley, 'Do OSCAR winners live longer than less successful peers? A reanalysis of the evidence', Annals of Internal Medicine, 2006 Sep 5;145(5): 361-3; discussion 392

Also see: Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Teacher’s Guide Series