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This Day in Oscar History: January 20 (2017)

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January 20, 2017
Oscar Profile #323: Mary Steenburgen

Born February 8, 1953 in Newport, Arkansas to Nellie May (Wall) and Maurice Steenburgen, a freight-train conductor, Mary Steenburgen grew up tap-dancing her way through talent shows and school functions. Active in school drama classes as well, she appeared in numerous high school plays, enrolling in Hendrix College upon graduation. At the recommendation of her…

January 19, 2017
This Day in Oscar History: January 19 (2017)

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January 19, 2017
This Day in Oscar History: January 18 (2017)

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January 18, 2017
This Day in Oscar History: January 17 (2017)

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January 17, 2017
Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 8

As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). The last week has been a whirlwind of precursor organizations announcing. Matter of fact, other than the Motion…

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

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

Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Oscar Nominations Our Site Milestones 2012: Polls: Best Of… (5)

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

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January 14, 2017
Oscar in Box Office History (Week 2, 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…

January 13, 2017
This Day in Oscar History: January 13 (2017)

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January 13, 2017
Oscar Profile #322: Karl Malden

Born Mladen George Sekulovich on March 22, 1912 to a Serbian father and a Czech mother in Chicago, Illinois, the future Karl Malden spoke only Serbian until he entered kindergarten. The eldest of three children, his father worked in the steel mills and as a milkman in Gary, Indiana. His mother, who was twenty when…

January 12, 2017
This Day in Oscar History: January 12 (2017)

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

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January 11, 2017
Precursor: 24th Cinema Audio Society Nominations (2016)

The Cinema Audio Society has selected its nominees for Best Sound Mixing in three categories, one for documentaries, one for animated films, and one for live-action films. That latter is the one that has the cross-over with the Oscars, so it’s the one we’re most interested in. The only major omission I see here is…

January 10, 2017