Category: Academy Awards History
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This Day in Oscar History: August 24 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: August 23 (2014)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 34, 2014)
Every week, we’ll take a look back 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years into the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office that weekend historically. All data is taken from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees…
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This Day in Oscar History: August 22 (2014)
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Oscar Profile #200: Teresa Wright
Born October 27, 1918, (Muriel) Teresa Wright became interested in acting after seeing Helen Hayes in Broadway’s Victoria Regina in 1936. Following her high school graduation in 1938 she was on Broadway herself as understudy to Martha Scott and Dorothy McGuire in Our Town. She took over the lead when Scott went to Hollywood to…
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This Day in Oscar History: August 21 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: August 20 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: August 19 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: August 18 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: August 17 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: August 16 (2014)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 33, 2014)
Every week, we’ll take a look back 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years into the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office that weekend historically. All data is taken from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees…
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This Day in Oscar History: August 15 (2014)
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Oscar Profile #199: Alfred Newman
Born March 17, 1901 in New Haven, Connecticut, Alfred Newman was the eldest of ten children in a poor family. A child prodigy, he began studying music at the age of five, walking five miles each way every day to practice on a neighbor’s piano. He was able to supplement his family’s income by traveling…
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This Day in Oscar History: August 14 (2014)
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