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Category: Academy Awards History

This Day in Oscar History: November 22 (2015)

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November 22, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: November 21 (2015)

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November 21, 2015
Oscar in Box Office History (Week 47, 2015)

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…

November 20, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: November 20 (2015)

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November 20, 2015
Oscar Profile #262: Tilda Swinton

Born November 5, 1960 to Judith Balfor and the now 90-year-old Major-General Sir John Swinton, Katherine Mathilda Swinton can trace her distinguished lineage back to before the 11th Century Norman Conquest. Educated in three schools, she was a classmate and friend of Princess Diana. After a break to do volunteer work in Kenya, she graduated…

November 19, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: November 19 (2015)

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November 19, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: November 18 (2015)

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November 18, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: November 17 (2015)

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November 17, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: November 16 (2015)

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November 16, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: November 15 (2015)

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November 15, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: November 14 (2015)

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November 14, 2015
Oscar in Box Office History (Week 46, 2015)

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…

November 13, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: November 13 (2015)

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November 13, 2015
Oscar Profile #261: Conrad L. Hall

Born in Tahiti on June 21, 1926, Conrad Lofcadio Hall was the son of James Norman Hall, co-author of Mutiny on the Bounty, the cousin of actors Jon Hall and Ben Chapman. Originally intent on a job in journalism, Hall drifted into the University of Southern California’s cinema school from which he graduated in 1949.…

November 12, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: November 12 (2015)

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November 12, 2015