Category: Academy Awards History
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This Day in Oscar History: March 7 (2020)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 10, 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: March 6 (2020)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones Born Died Released Our Site Milestones 2011: Weekend Preview (9)
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Oscar Profile #486: William Goldman
Born August 12, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, William Goldman was the son of Marion and businessman Maurice Goldman. He was the younger brother of fellow writer James Goldman (1927-1998), best known as the Oscar winning writer of The Lion in Winter. Goldman, received a B.A. degree from Oberlin College in 1952, and was drafted into…
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This Day in Oscar History: March 5 (2020)
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This Day in Oscar History: March 4 (2020)
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This Day in Oscar History: March 3 (2020)
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This Day in Oscar History: March 2 (2020)
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Precursor: 73rd Bodil Awards (2019)
Not all information is available for these awards. These are the pieces of information I’ve been able to collect so far. Award Tallies (3) Queen of Hearts The Awards Best Danish Film Queen of Hearts Best Actor Jesper Christensen – For frosten Best Actress Trine Dyrholm – Queen of Hearts Best Supporting Actor Gustav Lindh…
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This Day in Oscar History: March 1 (2020)
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This Day in Oscar History: February 29 (2019)
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Precursor: 45th Cesar Awards (2019)
In spite of a rather pointed protest over Roman Polanski’s Best Directing win, the big winner of the night was not his film An Officer and a Spy, even though it took three awards, it was Best Picture winner Les Misérables, which took five. Award Tallies (5) Les Miserables (3) La Belle Epoque, An Officer…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 9, 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: February 28 (2019)
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Oscar Profile #485: William Powell
Born July 29, 1892 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, William (Horatio) Powell was the only child of Nettie and Horatio Powell. He moved with his family to Kansas City, Missouri in 1907 where he graduated from Central High School in 1911. He then moved to New York where he entered the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in…
