Category: Academy Awards History
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This Day in Oscar History: July 7 (2017)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Our Site Milestones 2010: Film Previews / Trailer Watch (7) 2011: Polls: Oscar’s Best (6)
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Oscar Profile #347: Richard Brooks
Born May 18, 1912 in Philadelphia, PA to Russian Jewish immigrants Hyman and Esther Sax, Reuben Sax known professionally as Richard Brooks, grew up poor. He studied journalism at Temple University for two years from 1929-1931 before discovering that his parents were going into debt to pay for his education at which time he quit…
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This Day in Oscar History: July 6 (2017)
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2017 Oscar Nominations Predictions: July
As is our tradition, May begins our first predictive look at the year’s Oscar hopefuls. A lot of factors will play into how well our guesses hold up. Expect many of them to fall by the wayside as the year progresses and new contenders to rise into their places. We move into the month of…
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This Day in Oscar History: July 5 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: July 4 (2017)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Our Site Milestones 2011: Polls: What Are You Watching? (6)
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This Day in Oscar History: July 3 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: July 2 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: July 1 (2017)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Our Site Milestones 2010: Feed the Queue (7)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 26, 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: June 30 (2017)
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Oscar Profile #346: Sydney Pollack
Born July 1, 1934 in Lafayette, Indiana to homemaker Rebecca and professional boxer turned pharmacist David Pollack, Sydney Pollack grew up in South Bend, Indiana. His parents divorced when he was very young. His mother, who suffered from alcoholism and depression, died at the age of 37 when he was still in high school. Upon…
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This Day in Oscar History: June 29 (2017)
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Academy Invites 774 New Members
Continuing to ramp up their membership drives, they have admitted 774 new members. They have celebrated this with a huge, interactive web document that highlights various statistics. These new members represent 57 countries. 39% of the class are women, which increases the female membership in the Academy to 28% (27% in 2016 and 25% in…
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This Day in Oscar History: June 28 (2017)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Our Site Milestones 2010: The Morning After (7)
