Category: Academy Awards History
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Oscar History: January 29 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1886: Alfred Junge (78 at death) {2 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Art Direction/Production Design (Color) Oscar Win: Art Direction/Production Design (Color) 1903: Vina Delmar (86 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Screenplay 1913: Daniel Taradash (90 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination:…
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Oscar History: January 28 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1889: Karl Hajos (61 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Drama/Comedy Score 1892: Ernst Lubtisch (55 at death) {3 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Directing Oscar Win: Special/Honorary 1893: Edwin B. Willis (70 at death) {32 Noms, 8 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Art Direction/Production Design, Art…
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Box Office History (Week 4, 2025)
Every week, we’ll take a look back at how Oscar-nominated films performed at the box office. Due to the lack of data prior to 1980, some of these early years may have minimal information. From the mid-1990s back to 1980, the data exists, but is sometimes spotty. Everything after that should be accurate. We’ll look…
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Oscar History: January 27 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1885: Jerome Kern (60 at death) {8 Noms, 2 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Original Song, Musical Score Oscar Wins: Original Song 1894: Irvin Talbot (79 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Scoring 1895: Buddy De Sylva (55 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original…
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Oscar History: January 26 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1879: Hugo Riesenfeld (60 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Scoring 1903: Eddie Killey (78 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Assistant Directing 1906: Russ Saunders (81 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Assistant Directing 1908: Norman Burnside (56 at death)…
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Oscar History: January 25 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1901: Mildred Dunnock (90 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Supporting Actress 1905: Edward Colman (89 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Cinematography (Black-and-White), Cinematography (Color) 1919: Norman Newell (85 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original Song 1945: Slawomir Idziak…
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Predictions: First 97th Oscars Winners
Now that we’ve had time to review the nominations and get a reading on the landscape, here are our first winner predictions of the 97th Oscars. (Editor’s Note: Thomas’ commentary has been added) INTRODUCTIONS Wesley Lovell: I did well predicting most categories except for the documentary and short film ones. I took a bath there.…
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Oscar History: January 24 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1886: Henry King (96 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Directing 1892: Gladys Lehman (101 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original Screenplay 1914: Frank R. McKelvy (66 at death) {7 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Art Direction/Production Design, Art Direction/Production Design (Black-and-White),…
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2024 Nomination Predictions: Our Statistics
Based on our nominations predictions, here’s how we did. Let’s start out with this year’s winner, Thomas La Tourrette, who managed 97 correct predictions out of 120. Pete Patrick came in second with 86 with Wesley Lovell following closely with 85. We agreed on a lot of predictions, but there were still several nominations that…
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Oscar Profile: Kieran Culkin
Born September 30, 1982 in New York, New York, Kieran Culkin is the son of former child actor Kit Culkin and Patricia Brentrup who never married despite having seven children: Shane (born 1976), Dakota (1978), Macauley (1980), Kieran, Quinn (1984), Christian (1987), and Rory (1989). Dakota passed away in 2008. The others are still alive.…
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97th Oscar Nominations
Emilia Pérez had a great day. It joins a small club of films that have secured 13 total nominations. That doesn’t always portend luck as many of those films have struggled with wins. The Brutalist didn’t appear to have any trouble securing its most needed nominations while Wicked picked up a few that weren’t entirely…
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Oscar History: January 23 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1903: Fred Niblo Jr. (70 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Adaptation 1906: Arthur Lonergan (83 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Art Direction/Production Design (Color) 1910: Walter Greene (73 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Musical Score 1910: Irene Sharaff…
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2024 Nominations Predictions: FINAL
Although many races are very difficult to call, we have a surprising number of identical predictions and several that are close to identical. Best Animated Feature, Actor, Adapted Screenplay, and Production Design seem to be locked according to our prognosticators. The ones that are pretty close to locked are: Best Directing, Actress, Original Screenplay, Original…
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97th Oscar Morning: Final Nomination Thoughts
Tomorrow morning, the nominations for the 96th Academy Awards will be announced. They’ll be revealed by Bottoms star Rachel Sennott and SNL alum and Wicked supporting actor Bowen Yang. Before the nominations are announced, I wanted to put down in writing my thoughts on this year’s categories and how I came to my choices for…
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Oscar History: January 22 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones 2010: The Oscar Guy Became Cinema Sight (15) Born 1875: David Wark Griffith (73 at death) {0 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Win: Special/Honorary 1884: Fred Fox (65 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Assistant Directing Oscar Win: Assistant Directing 1900: Fredric Hope (37…
