Category: Oscar Profile

As mentioned in my introduction to Oscarless character actresses, the Best Supporting Actress award is sometimes erroneously referred to as the “old lady’s” award.  Even though Oscars for supporting actors have gone more frequently to older men than Oscars for supporting actresses have gone to older women, no one refers to the Best Supporting Actor…

Oscars for supporting actresses have on occasion been called the “old lady’s” award but the award has rarely gone to old ladies or even younger actresses playing old ladies.  It has more frequently been won by ingenues or lately, leading ladies shoehorned into the supporting actress category. Intended for character actresses, the award has seldom…

Oscarless Actors, like Oscarless actresses are those that have never won a competitive Oscar or any other award from the Academy.  That leaves out the likes of Fred Astaire, Charles Boyer, Charles Chaplin, Kirk Douglas, Cary Grant, James Earl Jones, Buster Keaton, Gene Kelly, Peter O’Toole, Edward G. Robinson, and Mickey Rooney, all of whom…

THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES ANNOUNCES NEW ACQUISITIONS TO THE ACADEMY COLLECTION New Acquisitions to the Largest Film-Related Collection in the World Include Key Pieces from Best Picture Oscar® Winner Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022); Collections of Gregg Araki, Gale Anne Hurd, and Harold Ramis; and the Steven Spielberg Animation Collection,…

Every week, we’ll take a look back in 5-year intervals at the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office each weekend historically. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the box office (as well as a section looking…

The Ultimate List Face-Off event has now begun. We will be using Google Forms to process these polls due to their extensiveness and the ease of creating the polls. For more information on how the game works, click here. Here are this week’s batch: GOOGLE POLL.

Born February 6, 1904 in New York, New York, Sam Leavitt began his career as a camera operator in 1926 and eventually became an occasional cinematographer in 1932. He became a member of the American Society of Cinematographers in 1935. He did not become a full-time cinematographer until 1952. Among the films on which Leavitt…

Every week, we’ll take a look back in 5-year intervals at the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office each weekend historically. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the box office (as well as a section looking…

The Ultimate List Face-Off event has now begun. We will be using Google Forms to process these polls due to their extensiveness and the ease of creating the polls. For more information on how the game works, click here. Here are this week’s batch: GOOGLE POLL.

Born June 26, 1970 in Los Angeles, California to Edwina and Ernie Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson’s father was a radio and TV personality, horror host and announcer and one of the first owners of a VCR with a vast collection of classic films for his son to cut his teeth on. Young Anderson began shooting…

Every week, we’ll take a look back in 5-year intervals at the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office each weekend historically. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the box office (as well as a section looking…

The Ultimate List Face-Off event has now begun. We will be using Google Forms to process these polls due to their extensiveness and the ease of creating the polls. For more information on how the game works, click here. Here are this week’s batch: GOOGLE POLL.