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Category: Academy Awards History

This Day in Oscar History: October 18 (2015)

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

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October 17, 2015
Oscar in Box Office History (Week 42, 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…

October 16, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: October 16 (2015)

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October 16, 2015
Oscar Profile #257: Helen Hayes

Born October 10, 1900, Helen Hayes (Brown) was the daughter of actress Essie Hayes and her husband, Frank Brown, a clerk. She began acting in a school production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the age of 5, quickly followed by her first professional stage performance in The Royal Family. She made her Broadway debut…

October 15, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: October 15 (2015)

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

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October 14, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: October 13 (2015)

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October 13, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: October 12 (2015)

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October 12, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: October 11 (2015)

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October 11, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: October 10 (2015)

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October 10, 2015
Oscar in Box Office History (Week 41, 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…

October 9, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: October 9 (2015)

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October 9, 2015
Oscar Profile #256: Dalton Trumbo

Born December 9, 1905 in Montrose, Colorado to a shoe store clerk and his homemaker wife, Dalton Trumbo would become the most famous of the Hollywood Ten when he was blacklisted in 1947. Educated in Colorado and Southern California, Trumbo became the sole support of his mother and younger sisters when his father died of…

October 8, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: October 8 (2015)

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October 8, 2015