Category: Academy Awards History
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This Day in Oscar History: January 10 (2017)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 7
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). It’a big week in the precursors with several guilds announcing their nominations. While other groups announced last week,…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 9 (2017)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died
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Precursor: 74th Golden Globe Awards (2016)
A clean sweep greeted La La Land from the Golden Globe Awards, a staggering 7 awards for the evening. The biggest shock of the night came with Aaron Taylor-Johnson won Best Supporting Actor for Nocturnal Animals. Otherwise, the awards went largely as expect. Winning no other awards, Barry Jenkins’ drama Moonlight took the Globe for…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 8 (2017)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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This Day in Oscar History: January 7 (2017)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 1, 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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2016 Precursor Predictions: Golden Globe Awards
This Sunday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) will present its annual Golden Globe Awards, one of the oldest awards giving bodies out there, their selections will give us hints towards what Oscar might be contemplating or should be contemplating. We’ve taken a look at the precursors and the nominations for the Golden Globe awards…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 6 (2017)
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Oscar Profile #321: Florence Bates
Born April 15, 1888 to Jewish immigrants in Austin, Texas, Florence Rabe was the second of two children. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Mathematics in 1906, after which she taught school. She gave up her career in 1909 when she married her first husband and gave birth…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 5 (2017)
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Precursor: 5th North Carolina Critics Awards (2016)
La La Land claimed another award for Best Picture this season and picked up three other awards. The selections, in general, are following the current trends. Awards Tallies (4) La La Land (2) Hell or High Water The Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: January 4 (2017)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 6
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). When I said yesterday that there weren’t any precursors in the prior week to merit an article, that…
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Precursor: 20th Online Critics Awards (2016)
Moonlight was the big winner with the Online Film Critics. Their selections follow the existing trends and do nothing to start new ones. Their early releases the last few years did more to position them as a trend-maker rather than a trend-follower. Now, they are back to being forgotten against the backdrop of the guild…
