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This Day in Oscar History: March 18 (2016)

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March 18, 2016
Oscar Profile #279: Pat O’Brien

Born November 11, 1899, “Hollywood’s Irishman in Residence”, William Joseph Patrick “Pat” O’Brien was American through and through having been born in Milkwaukee, Wisconsin to first generation American parents. All four of his grandparents, however, came from Ireland. As a boy, he wanted to become a priest and a cop before settling on acting, but…

March 17, 2016
This Day in Oscar History: March 17 (2016)

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March 17, 2016
This Day in Oscar History: March 16 (2016)

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March 16, 2016
This Day in Oscar History: March 15 (2016)

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March 15, 2016
This Day in Oscar History: March 14 (2016)

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March 14, 2016
This Day in Oscar History: March 13 (2016)

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March 13, 2016
This Day in Oscar History: March 12 (2016)

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March 12, 2016
Oscar in Box Office History (Week 11, 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…

March 11, 2016
This Day in Oscar History: March 11 (2016)

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March 11, 2016
Oscar Profile #278: Oscar Future

It was last November when Wesley asked me to put together a list of ten films I was looking forward to in 2016. I couldn’t do it for various reasons. For one, I had just taken over the editorship of my community newspaper which required a lot of detailed concentration in putting together the combined…

March 10, 2016
This Day in Oscar History: March 10 (2016)

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March 10, 2016
This Day in Oscar History: March 9 (2016)

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March 9, 2016
This Day in Oscar History: March 8 (2016)

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March 8, 2016
This Day in Oscar History: March 7 (2016)

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March 7, 2016