Category: Academy Awards History
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Oscar Profile #440: William A. Fraker
Born September 29, 1923 in Los Angeles, California, William A. Fraker III was the son of William A. Fraker, Jr., Department Head of Still Photography at Columbia, and his Mexican born wife who fled Mazatlan, Mexico with her mother and sister on a mule during Mexico’s revolution in 1910. Both parents died of influenza in…
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This Day in Oscar History: April 18 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 17 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 16 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 15 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 14 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 13 (2019)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 15, 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…
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This Day in Oscar History: April 12 (2019)
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Oscar Profile #439: Bonita Granville
Born February 2, 1923 in New York, New York, Bonita Granville was the daughter of stage performers Rosina (née Timponi) and Bernard “Bunny” Granville. Unsurprisingly, she became a child actress at 9, and made her film debut at 10. Granville’s second credited screen role was as Fanny Bridges, the young dancer daughter of Una O’Connor…
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This Day in Oscar History: April 11 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 10 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 9 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 8 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 7 (2019)
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