Category: Academy Awards History
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This Day in Oscar History: November 4 (2016)
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Oscar Profile #312: Natalie Wood
Born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko in San Francisco, California on July 20, 1938, the future Natalie Wood’s parents were Russian and Ukraine immigrants who barely spoke English. They changed the family name to Gurdin when they became U.S. citizens. At the age of four, while the family was living in Santa Rosa, the production company for…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 3 (2016)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 2 (2016)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 1 (2016)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 31 (2016)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 30 (2016)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 29 (2016)
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89th Oscars: Documentary Feature Submissions
Here is the list of Documentary Features submitted to the Academy for consideration for this year’s Oscars. There will be a narrowed list at a later date. 145 DOCUMENTARY FEATURES SUBMITTED FOR 2016 OSCAR® RACE LOS ANGELES, CA – One hundred forty-five features have been submitted for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 44, 2016)
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: October 28 (2016)
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Oscar Profile #311: Joseph F. Biroc
Born February 12, 1903 in New York, New York, Joseph Francis (Joe) Biroc started his career in 1918 at the age of 15 as a lab assistant at Paragon Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey, then America’s film capital. Later a camera assistant at Paramount Studios in Long Island, he moved to Hollywood in the…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 27 (2016)
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89th Oscars: Documentary Short Subject Shortlist
This year’s Documentary Short Subject finalists number 10, five of which will be nominated for the Oscar. Here’s the press release with the announced films: 10 DOC SHORTS ON OSCAR’S 2016 SHORTLIST LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that the field of Documentary Short Subject contenders for…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 26 (2016)
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