Category: Academy Awards History
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This Day in Oscar History: December 18 (2020)
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Precursor: 24th Florida Critics Nominations (2020)
Florida seems to like a lot of movies, giving The Trial of the Chicago 7 its best showing so far this year and criminally underrating Promising Young Woman. Nominations Tallies (6) Minari, Nomadland (5) First Cow, The Trial of the Chicago 7 (4) The Father, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (3) Mank, Promising Young Woman, Shirley,…
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Oscar Profile #527: Gregory La Cava
Born March 10, 1892 in Towanda, Pennsylvania, (George) Gregory La Cava studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students’ League in New York. He was hired by silent film cartoonist Raoul Barré in 1913 to do odd jobs at his studio. By 1915, he was an animator on The Animated Grouch…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 17 (2020)
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This Day in Oscar History: December 16 (2020)
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Precursor: 12th Indiana Critics Nominations (2020)
This large list of nominations is not like what many others put together, thus it’s difficult to draw many conclusions, though they really loved three films, giving them double-digit citations. Nominations Tallies (11) I’m Thinking of Ending Things (10) Minari, One Night in Miami (7) Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Promising Young Woman, Soul (6) First…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 15 (2020)
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This Day in Oscar History: December 14 (2020)
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Precursor: 41st Boston Critics Awards (2020)
The 2020 film slate was dominated by Netflix, which was already stingy on their theatrical releases, yet they were largely ignored by the first major film critics organization to announce. Boston selected only three of their films to recognize. Mank was left out of all but one runner-up citation while Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom secured…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 13 (2020)
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This Day in Oscar History: December 12 (2020)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 50, 2020)
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: December 11 (2020)
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Oscar Profile #526: Lionel Barrymore
Born April 28, 1878 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lionel Herbert Blythe was the oldest of three children of actors Maurice Barrymore and Ellen Drew Barrymore, Barrymore being the stage name that Lionel and his siblings, Ethel, and John, also took. The most prolific of the acting Barrymores, Lionel made his stage debut in a 1903 Kansas…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 10 (2020)
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