Category: Academy Awards History
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Oscar Profile #552: Walter Lang
Born August 10, 1896, in Memphis, Tennessee, Walter Lang entered the film business as a young man when he got a job in a production company, working his way up to assistant director and then director. His first film as director was 1925’s The Red Kimono. He worked steadily even though he temporarily quit the…
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This Day in Oscar History: June 17 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 16 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 15 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 14 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 13 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 12 (2021)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 24, 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: June 11 (2021)
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Oscar Profile #551: Joe Pasternak
Born September 19, 1901, in a town in Austria-Hungary that is now part of Romania, József Paszternák, known professionally as Joe Pasternak, was one of eleven children of a town clerk. He emigrated to the US as a teenager in 1920 and stayed with an uncle in Philadelphia. He had a variety of jobs while…
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This Day in Oscar History: June 10 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 9 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 8 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 7 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 6 (2021)
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