Category: Academy Awards History
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This Day in Oscar History: October 26 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 25 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 24 (2021)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Our Site Milestones 2019: 5 Favorites Redux (2)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 23 (2021)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 43, 2021)
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…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 22 (2021)
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Precursor: 31st Gotham Awards Nominations (2021)
The Gotham Awards announce earlier and earlier every year and for little reason. Sure, they get the drop on other groups, but their selections are often so far out of the mainstream that they don’t generally translate into Oscar nominations or even other precursor consideration. This is also only one of two groups that I’m…
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Oscar Profile #570: Karl Freund
Born January `16, 1890 in Königinhof, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, now Dvur Kralove, Czech Republic, future Oscar winner Karl Freund moved with his family to Berlin when he was 11. In 1905, when he was 15, he went to work as a projectionist. Two years later he was a newsreel photographer. He was then drafted into the…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 21 (2021)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Our Site Milestones 2011: Oscar in Box Office History (10)
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2021 Oscar Nominations Predictions: Post-Festival
As is our tradition, May begins our first predictive look at the year’s Oscar hopefuls. A lot of factors will play into how well our guesses hold up. Expect many of them to fall by the wayside as the year progresses and new contenders to rise into their places. With the festival circuit having run…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 20 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 19 (2021)
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Precursor: 6th Critics Choice Documentary Nominations (2021)
A long list of lots of documentaries. Not everything under the sun was nominated, but most of it was. Some Oscar nominees likely. Some not. We’ll just have to wait and see. Nominations Tallies (6) Ascension, Summer of Soul (5) The Rescue (4) Becoming Cousteau, The Sparks Brothers, Val, The Velvet Underground (3) Attica, The…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 18 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 17 (2021)
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