Category: Academy Awards History
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 44, 2017)
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: November 3 (2017)
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Oscar Profile #364: Walter Lassally
Born December 18, 1926 in Berlin, Germany to a German father and Polish mother, Walter Lassally’s father was an engineer and industrial filmmaker. Although Protestant by religion, both parents were Jewish by heritage and his father was forced to stop working when the Nazis came to power in 1932. With his father imprisoned in 1938,…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 2 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 1 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 31 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 30 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 29 (2017)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 43, 2017)
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: October 28 (2017)
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90th Oscars: Screener Watch – Netflix
Netflix has submitted the first of their year-end awards contender in the form of Angelina Jolie’s foreign language directorial effort. First They Killed My Father Oscar Chances: Uncertain: Jolie hasn’t had much success at the Oscars; however, the subject matter, combined with its submission to the Best Foreign Language Film competition, means it could at…
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90th Oscars: Documentary Feature Submissions
The Academy has announced the list of 170 films that are eligible for consideration in this year’s Best Documentary Feature category. They will further narrow this list down to a list of finalists from which the five nominees will be selected. 170 DOCUMENTARY FEATURES SUBMITTED FOR 2017 OSCAR® RACE LOS ANGELES, CA – One hundred…
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90th Oscars: Special Academy Award Announced
It’s been 22 years since an individual film has been recognized by the Academy by conferring upon its makers or producers an honorary Oscar. Below is a press release from the Academy presenting a special achievement award on the Virtual Reality documentary “Carne y Arena” from Alejandro G. Iñárritu and others. And while this is…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 27 (2017)
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Oscar Profile #363: Alan Ladd
Born September 3, 1913 to Ina Rawley and Alan Ladd, an accountant, Alan Walbridge Ladd was four when his father died. He was five when he burned his apartment, playing with matches. His mother moved them to Oklahoma City. He was malnourished, undersize and nicknamed “Tiny” at eight, when his mother married a housepainter who…
