Category: Academy Awards History
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This Day in Oscar History: May 2 (2020)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 18, 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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93rd Oscars: Upcoming Precursors – May
Precursors to the Academy Awards come in many different types and they can appear all year from festivals and national awards to critics groups and other organization. Each month, we’ll take a look at all of the upcoming events that could have some small impact on the Oscars so you can plan out what to…
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This Day in Oscar History: May 1 (2020)
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Oscar Profile #494: Van Heflin
Born December 13, 1908 in Walters, Oklahoma, Everett Evan (Van) Heflin was the son of a dental surgeon and his wife. His younger sister was the actress Frances Heflin. He received a BA from the University of Oklahoma in 1932 after he had already appeared on Broadway. Heflin made his Broadway debut in 1928 in…
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This Day in Oscar History: April 30 (2020)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 29 (2020)
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93rd Oscars: Awards Rules Approved
The Academy has announced several rules changes for this year’s Oscars; however, only one of them is pandemic-related, namely the change to eligibility rules for films that had to be released digitally because theaters were not open. Beyond that, some noteworthy changes include: The unfortunate merger of the Sound Mixing and Sound Editing categories because…
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This Day in Oscar History: April 28 (2020)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 27 (2020)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 26 (2020)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 25 (2020)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 17, 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: April 24 (2020)
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Oscar Profile #493: Lilli Palmer
Born May 24, 1914 in Posen, Prussia, now Poznan, Poland, Lilli Marie Peiser, known professionally as Lilli Palmer, was the middle daughter of a German Jewish surgeon and his Austrian stage actress wife. When the future actress was four, her family moved to Berlin where she became a table tennis champion as a young girl.…
