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Category: Academy Awards History

This Day in Oscar History: May 22 (2019)

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May 22, 2019
This Day in Oscar History: May 21 (2019)

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May 21, 2019
This Day in Oscar History: May 20 (2019)

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May 20, 2019
This Day in Oscar History: May 19 (2019)

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May 19, 2019
This Day in Oscar History: May 18 (2019)

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May 18, 2019
Oscar in Box Office History (Week 20, 2019)

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. All data is collected from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the…

May 17, 2019
This Day in Oscar History: May 17 (2019)

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May 17, 2019
Oscar Profile #444: Doris Day Revisited

Born April 3, 1924 in Cincinnati, Ohio to William Kappelhoff, a music teacher and choir master, and his wife Alma, a housewife, Doris Kappelhoff was the third of three children and the only girl. Her parents separated when she was ten and she lived thereafter with her mother. Intent on becoming a professional dancer, young…

May 16, 2019
Oscar Profile #444: Ethel Waters

Born October 31, 1896 in Chester, Pennsylvania as the result of the rape of her 15-year-mother Louise Anderson by her 18-year-old father, pianist John Waters, Ethel Waters was raised in poverty by her grandmother, Sally Anderson who worked as a housemaid, along with two aunts and an uncle, her mother having married another man shortly…

May 16, 2019
This Day in Oscar History: May 16 (2019)

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May 16, 2019
This Day in Oscar History: May 15 (2019)

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May 15, 2019
This Day in Oscar History: May 14 (2019)

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May 14, 2019
This Day in Oscar History: May 13 (2019)

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May 13, 2019
This Day in Oscar History: May 12 (2019)

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May 12, 2019
This Day in Oscar History: May 11 (2019)

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May 11, 2019