Category: Academy Awards History
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This Day in Oscar History: November 28 (2020)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 48, 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: November 27 (2020)
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Oscar Profile #524: Terence Rattigan
Born June 10, 1911 in London, England to a British diplomat and his wife, Oxford educated Terence Rattigan was one of the preeminent British playwrights of the 20th Century. Rattigan began writing plays in 1934. He cowrite an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities with John Gielgud in 1935, but the play…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 26 (2020)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 25 (2020)
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Precursor: 63rd Grammy Award Nominations (2020)
If there was a time when the Grammys were relevant as an Oscar prognostiscator, I cannot think of when. They have an asynchronous eligibility period where fall releases for one year show up in the nominations the following year. That is particularly true of this year’s slate. eleven films out of nineteen nominations were released…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 24 (2020)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 23 (2020)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 22 (2020)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 21 (2020)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 47, 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: November 20 (2020)
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Precursor: 1st Critics Choice Super Awards Nominations (2020)
Another separate awards shows. How many of these are they going to have? The only reason I even decided to cover this was that one of the main Oscar categories, Best Animated Feature, was moved to these awards rather than their flagship awards. Nothing really to see here other than you can tell that they…
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Oscar Profile #523: Ray Milland
Born January 3, 1907 in Neath, Glamorgan, Wales, UK, Reginald Alfred John Truscott-Jones, known professionally as Ray Milland, was the son of a steel mill superintendent and his wife. He trained as an equestrian on his uncle’s horse breeding farm and later joined the Household Cavalry before becoming an actor. Turning to acting, Milland’s rise…
