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Category: Academy Awards History

This Day in Oscar History: August 21 (2015)

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August 21, 2015
Oscar Profile #249: Oscar Couldabeens

Anyone who ever tried to put together a list of films that that should have been nominated for Academy Awards but weren’t, can tell you that it is an almost impossible task to sort out eligibility dates for the years 1927/28-1981 for to a number of reasons. The first awards were supposed to be for…

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

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August 20, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: August 19 (2015)

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

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

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

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

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August 15, 2015
Oscar in Box Office History (Week 33, 2015)

Every week, we’ll take a look back in 5-year intervals in the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office that 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…

August 14, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: August 14 (2015)

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August 14, 2015
Oscar Profile #248: Wendy Hiller

Born August 15, 1912 in Bramhall, Cheshire, England, the daughter of a cotton manufacturer, Wendy Hiller began her acting career in the 1930s with a repertory theatre in Manchester. Following her great success in 1934 in Love on the Dole, she married the play’s author, Ronald Gow, 15 years her senior, in 1937, the same…

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

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

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

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

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August 10, 2015