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Oscar Profile #331: Robert Aldrich

Born August 9, 1918 in Cranston, Rhode Island, to the former Lora Lawson and newspaper publisher Edward Burgess Aldrich, Robert Aldrich was a long-time Hollywood director. He was the grandson of U.S. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, nephew of John D. Rockefeller and cousin of Nelson Rockefeller. He was educated at the Moses Brown School in…

March 16, 2017
This Day in Oscar History: March 16 (2017)

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March 16, 2017
This Day in Oscar History: March 15 (2017)

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March 15, 2017
This Day in Oscar History: March 14 (2017)

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March 14, 2017
This Day in Oscar History: March 13 (2017)

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March 13, 2017
This Day in Oscar History: March 12 (2017)

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March 12, 2017
This Day in Oscar History: March 11 (2017)

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March 11, 2017
Oscar in Box Office History (Week 10, 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…

March 10, 2017
This Day in Oscar History: March 10 (2017)

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March 10, 2017
Oscar Profile #330: Natalie Portman

Born June 9, 1981 in Jerusalem, Neta-Lee Hershlag, known professionally as Natalie Portman, was the only child of an Israeli doctor and an American homemaker. She holds dual American and Israeli citizenship. The family relocated the U.S. when she was three years old. Portman began taking dance lessons at the age of four. At ten,…

March 9, 2017
This Day in Oscar History: March 9 (2017)

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March 9, 2017
This Day in Oscar History: March 8 (2017)

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March 8, 2017
This Day in Oscar History: March 7 (2017)

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March 7, 2017
This Day in Oscar History: March 6 (2017)

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March 6, 2017
This Day in Oscar History: March 5 (2017)

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March 5, 2017