Category: Academy Awards History
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This Day in Oscar History: May 1 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 30 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 29 (2017)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 17, 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: April 28 (2017)
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Oscar Profile #337: Jonathan Demme
Born February 22, 1944 in Baldwin, N.Y., (Robert) Jonathan Demme was the son of Robert Demme, a public relations manager and his wife, Dorothy. The family later moved to Florida, where he graduated from Southwest Miami High School and the University of Florida. Demme had an early job as a film critic for a shopping…
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This Day in Oscar History: April 27 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 26 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 25 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 24 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 23 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 22 (2017)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 16, 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: April 21 (2017)
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Oscar Profile #336: Simone Signoret
Born March 21, 1921 in Wiesbaden, Germany to French parents, Simone Henriette Charlotte Kamiker was a legendary French actress known professionally as Simone Signoret (her mother’s maiden name). Her mother was a French Catholic. Her father, who had Polish Jewish roots, left France to join General DeGaulle in England in 1940. Upon completing secondary school…
