Category: Academy Awards History
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Oscar History: April 7 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1900: Paul Lerpae (89 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Special Effects Oscar Win: Sci-Tech Award – Type II (Certificate) 1905: Herbert Spencer (87 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Original Song Score, Original Song or Adaptation Score 1908: Percy Faith (67 at…
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Oscar History: April 6 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1884: Walter Huston (66 at death) {4 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Actor, Supporting Actor Oscar Win: Supporting Actor 1895: Dudley Nichols (64 at death) {4 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Original Screenplay, Screenplay Oscar Win: Screenplay 1895: Harold Rosson (93 at death) {4 Noms, 1 Win}…
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Oscar History: April 5 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1897: Arthur Hilton (82 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Editing 1900: Spencer Tracy (67 at death) {9 Noms, 2 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Actor Oscar Wins: Actor 1901: Melvyn Douglas (80 at death) {3 Noms, 2 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Actor, Supporting Actor Oscar Wins: Supporting…
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Oscar History: April 4 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1888: Harry Oliver (85 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Art Direction/Production Design 1896: Robert E. Sherwood (59 at death) {2 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Screenplay Oscar Win: Screenplay 1908: Sydney Boehm (82 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Story and Screenplay…
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Oscar Profile #739: Cary Grant Revisited
Born Archibald Leach in Bristol, England on January 18, 1904, the future Cary Grant grew up in a working-class family. When he was nine, he was told his mother had gone off to a seaside resort. In truth, she had been placed in a mental institution. His father remarried when he was ten and young…
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Oscar History: April 3 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1893: Leslie Howard (50 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Actor 1897: John O. Aalberg (87 at death) {10 Noms, 3 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Sound/Sound Mixing, Special Effects Oscar Wins: Gordon E. Sawyer Award, John A. Bonner Medal, Sci-Tech Award – Type III (Certificate) 1898:…
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Oscar History: April 2 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones 2010: Cinema Sight: Looking at the Weekend (15) Born 1899: William Garity (72 at death) {0 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Win: Special/Honorary 1902: Edward Eliscu (96 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original Song 1908: William Kiernan (65 at death) {6 Noms, 0…
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Calendar Preview: April 2025
Precursors to the Academy Awards come in many different forms and they can appear all year from festivals and national awards to critics groups and other organizations. Here’s what’s coming up this month. APRIL Oscars Tuesday, Apr. 29 – Sci-Tech Awards (Official)
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Oscar History: April 1 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1885: Wallace Beery (64 at death) {2 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Actor Oscar Win: Actor 1904: Sherman Todd (75 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Editing 1905: Harry Grey (58 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Two-Reel Short Film 1910: Robert Pirosh…
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Box Office History (Week 13, 2025)
Every week, we’ll take a look back at how Oscar-nominated films performed at the box office. Due to the lack of data prior to 1980, some of these early years may have minimal information. From the mid-1990s back to 1980, the data exists, but is sometimes spotty. Everything after that should be accurate. We’ll look…
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Oscar History: March 31 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1896: Sarah Y. Mason (84 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Adaptation Oscar Win: Adaptation 1904: Sam Zimbalist (54 at death) {2 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Picture Oscar Win: Picture 1905: Robert Stevenson (81 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Directing 1907:…
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Oscar History: March 30 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1886: Archie Stout (86 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Cinematography (Color) Oscar Win: Cinematography (Color) 1892: Ellsworth Hoagland (80 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Editing 1894: Ray Cory (73 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Special Effects 1897: Robert…
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Oscar History: March 29 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1885: Robert J. Kern (87 at death) {2 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Editing Oscar Win: Editing 1889: Warner Baxter (62 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Actor Oscar Win: Actor 1894: Franz Planer (68 at death) {5 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Cinematography (Black-and-White),…
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Oscar History: March 28 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1902: Flora Robson (82 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Supporting Actress 1905: Pandro S. Berman (91 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Picture Oscar Win: Irving G. Thalberg Award 1905: Eleanor Perry (75 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Adapted…
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Oscar Profile: Paul Schrader
Born July 22, 1946 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Paul Joseph Schrader was raised as a strict Calvinist and did not see a film until he was 17. The first film he saw was Disney’s The Absent-Minded Professor with Fred MacMurray and Nancy Olson which failed to impress him. His second film, however, was Philip Dunne’s…
