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Category: Academy Awards History

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 3

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1877: Josephine Hull (80 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Supporting Actress –1 Nom, 1 Win} 1889: Robert M. Haas (73 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Art Direction (Black-and-White),Art Direction (Color) – 2 Noms, 0 Wins} 1898: Frederic Efrem Rich (58 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Drama/Comedy Score, Musical Score…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 2

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1893: Ernst Marischka (70 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Motion Picture Story – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1911: Jack Martin Smith (82 at death) {Oscar Winner: Art Direction, Art Direction (Color);Oscar Nominee: Art Direction, Art Direction (Black-and-White), Art Direction (Color) –9 Noms, 3 Wins} 1937: Peter Davis (73)…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 1

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1887: Joseph T. Rucker (70 at death) {Oscar Winner: Cinematography – 1 Nom, 1 Win} 1887: Herman Rosse (78 at death) {Oscar Winner: Art Direction – 1 Nom, 1 Win} 1891: Boris Morros (72 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Nominee: Scoring – 3 Noms, 0 Wins} 1891: Charles…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 31

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1896: Philip Stevenson (68 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Screenplay – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1897: Orry-Kelly (66 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Costume Design,Costume Design (Black-and-White), Costume Design (Color) – 4 Noms, 3 Wins} 1897: Frank Skinner (70 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Original Score, Scoring, Drama Score,…

  • Oscar Profile #18: Mitchell Leisen

    Born in 1898 in Menominee, Michigan, James Mitchell Leisen was trained as an architect, but worked in Hollywood form his early twenties as a set designer, art director and costume designer. Associated throughout the 1920s with Douglas Fairbanks and Cecil B. DeMille, he designed the costumes for Fairbanks’ Robin Hood (1920) and The Thief of…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 30

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1897: Lawrence Weingarten (77 at death) {Oscar Winner: Irving G. Thalberg Award;Oscar Nominee: Picture – 1 Nom, 1 Win} 1901: Henry Blanke (79 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Picture – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1903: Owen Crump (94 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Documentary Short – 1 Nom, 0…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 29

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1888: John Sturtevant (80 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Art Direction (Color) – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1891: Alfred Gilks (78 at death) {Oscar Winner: Cinematography (Color) – 1 Nom, 1 Win} 1900: C. C. Coleman Jr. (71 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Assistant Director – 1 Nom, 0…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 28

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1890: Frank Butler (76 at death) {Oscar Winner: Screenplay; Oscar Nominee: Original Screenplay, Screenplay – 3 Noms, 1 Win} 1908: Lew Ayres (88 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Nominee: Lead Actor – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1934: Herb Gardner (68 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Adapted Screenplay – 1…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 27

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1879: Sydney Greenstreet (74 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Nominee: Supporting Actor –1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1892: Albert S. D’Agostino (77 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Art Direction,Art Direction (Black-and-White) – 5 Noms, 0 Wins} 1894: Wesley C. Miller (67 at death) {Oscar Winner: Sci-Tech Award – Type II…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 26

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1880: Monckton Hoffe (70 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Original Story – 1 Noms, 0 Wins} 1894: Stephen Dunn (85 at death) {Oscar Winner: Sound/Sound Mixing,Sci-Tech Award – Type II (Plaque); Oscar Nominee: Sound/Sound Mixing – 4 Noms, 3 Wins} 1899: Irmgard Von Cube (77 at death) {Oscar…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 25

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1878: Joseph M. Schenck (82 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Special/Honorary –0 Noms, 1 Wins} 1888: Sonya Levien (71 at death) {Oscar Winner: Story and Screenplay;Oscar Nominee: Adaptation, Story and Screenplay – 2 Noms, 1 Wins} 1889: Nathaniel Shilkret (92 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Nominee: Scoring –…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 24

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1886: Michael Curtiz (75 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Directing – 4 Noms, 1 Wins} 1893: Ruth Chatterton (67 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Nominee: Lead Actress – 2 Noms, 0 Wins} 1893: Harry Warren (87 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Song – 11 Noms, 3 Wins} 1898:…

  • Oscar Profile #17: Sidney Lumet

    Born in Philadelphia, Penn. in 1924, Sidney Lumet is one of the most prolific film directors of the last fifty-plus years. His films have received a total of forty-six Oscar nominations, and won four. He has directed seventeen actors to eighteen Oscar nominations, been nominated himself five times, and won an honorary award at the…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 23

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1899: Richard Schweizer (65 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Original Screenplay,Motion Picture Story; Oscar Nominee: Original Screenplay, Screenplay, Motion Picture Story –3 Noms, 2 Wins} 1914: Fred Coe (64 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Picture – 1 Noms, 0 Wins} 1916: Dino Risi (91 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 22

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1888: Lucien Hubbard (83 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Nominee: Original Story – 2 Noms, 0 Wins} 1907: Peggy Ashcroft (83 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Supporting Actress –1 Noms, 1 Wins} 1917: Freddie Francis (89 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Cinematography,Cinematography (Black-and-White) – 2 Noms, 2 Wins}…

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