Category: Academy Awards History
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This Day in Oscar History: December 5
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: December 4
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: December 3
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 48, 2011)
Every week, we’ll take a look back 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 (starting in January) 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…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 2
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar Profile #62: Boris Kaufman
Born August 24, 1906 in Byalistock, Poland, then part of the Russian Empire, Boris Kaufman was the third son of librarians who would become world-renown filmmakers. His oldest brother, Denis, working under the pseudonym of Dziga Vertov, was the acclaimed documentary director whose most famous film was 1929’s The Man with the Movie Camera. Middle…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 1
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: November 30
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: November 29
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: November 28
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: November 27
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: November 26
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 47, 2011)
Every week, we’ll take a look back 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 (starting in January) 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…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 25
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar Profile #61: Anthony Perkins
Born in New York, New York on April 4, 1932, Anthony Perkins was the son of stage and screen actor Osgood Perkins who died when the younger Perkins was just five years old. Raised by his widowed mother, he made his screen debut in 1953 as young Ruth Gordon’s (Jean Simmons) first boyfriend in The…
