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This Day in Oscar History: January 31 (2016)

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January 31, 2016
This Day in Oscar History: January 30 (2016)

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January 30, 2016
Oscar in Box Office History (Week 5, 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…

January 29, 2016
This Day in Oscar History: January 29 (2016)

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January 29, 2016
Oscar Profile #272: Jack Lemmon

Born John Uhler (Jack) Lemmon III on February 8, 1925, the future eight-time Oscar nominee and two-time winner was born in an elevator on the way to the delivery room at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. His father was the president of a donut company. Lemmon was president of the famed…

January 28, 2016
This Day in Oscar History: January 28 (2016)

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January 28, 2016
This Day in Oscar History: January 27 (2016)

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January 27, 2016
This Day in Oscar History: January 26 (2016)

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January 26, 2016
This Day in Oscar History: January 25 (2016)

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January 25, 2016
This Day in Oscar History: January 24 (2016)

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January 24, 2016
This Day in Oscar History: January 23 (2016)

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January 23, 2016
Oscar in Box Office History (Week 4, 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…

January 22, 2016
This Day in Oscar History: January 22 (2016)

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January 22, 2016
Oscar Profile #271: Leslie Caron

Born July 1, 1931 in Boulogne-sur-Seine, France, the daughter of a Franco-American dancer and a French chemist, Leslie Caron was groomed by her mother to be a ballet dancer from childhood. She was discovered by Gene Kelly in the Roland Petit Company “Ballet des Champs Elysées” who cast her as his co-star in An American…

January 21, 2016
This Day in Oscar History: January 21 (2016)

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January 21, 2016