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Category: Academy Awards History

Oscar in Box Office History (Week 31, 2012)

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…

August 3, 2012
This Day in Oscar History: August 3 (2012)

Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

August 3, 2012
Oscar Profile #97: Marilyn Monroe

Born June 1, 1926, Norma Jeane Mortenson’s father abandoned her mother before she was born. Her mentally ill mother abandoned her to foster care resulting in her almost being smothered to death at two; nearly raped at six and put to work at nine for which she was paid a nickel a month for kitchen…

August 2, 2012
This Day in Oscar History: August 2 (2012)

Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

August 2, 2012
This Day in Oscar History: August 1 (2012)

Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

August 1, 2012
This Day in Oscar History: July 31 (2012)

Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

July 31, 2012
This Day in Oscar History: July 30 (2012)

Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

July 30, 2012
This Day in Oscar History: July 29 (2012)

Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

July 29, 2012
This Day in Oscar History: July 28 (2012)

Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

July 28, 2012
Oscar in Box Office History (Week 30, 2012)

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…

July 27, 2012
This Day in Oscar History: July 27 (2012)

Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

July 27, 2012
Oscar Profile #96: Robert Ryan

Born November 11, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois, Robert Ryan graduated Dartmouth College in 1932, having held the school’s heavyweight boxing championship all four years of his attendance. After graduation he found work as a sandhog, seaman, sewer builder, salesman, miner, cowboy, bodyguard-chauffeur to a mobster, photographer’s model, W.P.A. laborer and paving supervisor before turning to…

July 26, 2012
This Day in Oscar History: July 26 (2012)

Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

July 26, 2012
This Day in Oscar History: July 25 (2012)

Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

July 25, 2012
This Day in Oscar History: July 24 (2012)

Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

July 24, 2012