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Category: Academy Awards History

This Day in Oscar History: June 1 (2015)

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June 1, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: May 31 (2015)

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May 31, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: May 30 (2015)

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May 30, 2015
Oscar in Box Office History (Week 22, 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…

May 29, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: May 29 (2015)

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May 29, 2015
Oscar Profile #237: Philip Seymour Hoffman

Born July 23, 1967 in Fairport, New York, a suburb of Rochester, Philip Seymour Hoffman was the son of a lawyer, now a judge, and her first husband, a Xerox employee. Educated at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, he graduated with a B.F.A. degree in Drama in 1989. By 1991 he was acting in…

May 28, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: May 28 (2015)

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May 28, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: May 27 (2015)

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May 27, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: May 26 (2015)

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May 26, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: May 25 (2015)

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May 25, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: May 24 (2015)

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May 24, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: May 23 (2015)

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May 23, 2015
Oscar in Box Office History (Week 21, 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…

May 22, 2015
This Day in Oscar History: May 22 (2015)

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May 22, 2015
Oscar Profile #236: Harry Stradling Sr.

Born in Newark, New Jersey on September 1, 1901, Harry Stradling was the nephew of Mary Pickford’s cinematographer, Walter Stradling. He came to Hollywood upon graduating high school in 1918 to apprentice under his uncle, but his uncle died suddenly on July 4, 1918 leaving him to seek work through his uncle’s connections. Known throughout…

May 21, 2015