Category: Academy Awards History
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This Day in Oscar History: October 14 (2017)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 41, 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 13 (2017)
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Oscar Profile #361: Shelley Winters
Born August 18, 1920 in St. Louis, Missouri to Jonas Schrift, a designer of men’s clothing, and his wife Rose (née Winter), a singer, Shirley Schrift, would become the actress Shelley Winters. The family moved to Brooklyn, New York when Winters was 9. Her sister Blanche having married a Los Angeles theatre manager, Winters joined…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 12 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 11 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 10 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 9 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 8 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 7 (2017)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 40, 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 6 (2017)
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90th Oscars: Foreign Language Film Submissions
The Academy has announced that 92 countries have submitted films for consideration for the Best Foreign Language FIlm category. This is up 7 from last year’s 85. This is yet another new record for submissions. I’ll organize them all into a formal list for the 90th Oscars page, but for now, here’s the press release.…
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Oscar Profile #360: Holly Hunter
Born March 20, 1958 in Conyers, Georgia to Opal, a homemaker, and Charles Hunter, a part-time sporting goods company representative and farmer with a 250-acre farm, Holly Hunter was the youngest of seven siblings. Hunter’s parents encouraged her acting talent from an early age. Her first on-stage role was in a fifth-grade play in which…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 5 (2017)
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