Category: Academy Awards History
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Oscar History: October 17 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1886: Spring Byington (84 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Supporting Actress 1889: Mildred Cram (95 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original Story 1893: Richard Connell (56 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Original Screenplay, Original Story 1900: Jean Arthur…
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The Contenders 2024: September/November
We’re looking at Oscar contenders as they release and trying to determine which films have potential and which have wasted it. Let’s look back at the month of September and see what films succeeded and faltered. Then we’ll look forward to November and see what has some potential. Wesley Lovell’s Thoughts September Retrospective While September…
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Oscar History: October 16 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1892: George Barnes (60 at death) {6 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Cinematography, Cinematography (Black-and-White), Cinematography (Color) Oscar Win: Cinematography (Black-and-White) 1892: Leo Forbstein (55 at death) {3 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Scoring Oscar Win: Scoring 1892: Kenneth Webb (73 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins}…
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Oscar History: October 15 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1874: Douglas Doty (60 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original Story 1879: Jane Darwell (87 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Supporting Actress Oscar Win: Supporting Actress 1895: Alfred Neumann (56 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Motion Picture Story…
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Box Office History (Week 41, 2024)
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: October 14 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1893: Lillian Gish (99 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Supporting Actress Oscar Win: Special/Honorary 1899: A. Arnold Gillespie (78 at death) {12 Noms, 4 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Special Effects Oscar Wins: Special Effects, Sci-Tech Award – Type III (Certificate) 1909: Dorothy Kingsley (87 at…
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Oscar History: October 13 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1906: Edward Carrere (78 at death) {3 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Art Direction/Production Design, Art Direction/Production Design (Color) Oscar Win: Art Direction/Production Design 1909: Carlo Bernari (83 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original Screenplay 1915: Cornel Wilde (74 at death) {1 Nom, 0…
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Oscar History: October 12 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1944: Alex Funke (80) {2 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Visual Effects Oscar Win: Visual Effects 1949: Richard Price (75) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Adapted Screenplay 1957: Debra Chasnoff (60 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Documentary Feature Oscar Win: Documentary Feature 1967:…
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Oscar History: October 11 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1902: Everett Douglas (65 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Editing 1918: Jerome Robbins (79 at death) {1 Nom, 2 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Directing Oscar Wins: Directing, Special/Honorary 1941: Charles Shyer (83) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original Screenplay 1962: Joan Cusack (62) {2…
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Oscar Profile: Howard Hawks Revisited
Born May 30, 1896 in Goshen, Indiana, Howard Winchester Hawks was the eldest of five children of one of the Midwest’s wealthiest families. The family moved to Pasadena, California due to his mother’s poor health after the birth of her fifth child in 1906. Hawks attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York studying mechanical engineering…
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Oscar History: October 10 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1900: Helen Hayes (92 at death) {2 Noms, 2 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Actress, Supporting Actress Oscar Wins: Actress, Supporting Actress Academy Awards Host: 44th-Co | 1 time 1908: Johnny Green (80 at death) {14 Noms, 5 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Adaptation or Treatment Score, Scoring, Musical Score, One-Reel…
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Contenders 2024: October Update
For our October update, several films moved on from one stage to the next. Today, we’ll look at where each film moved and look at a new ranking of each of the contenders. Before we get to the movement, a couple of notes on this month’s update. Four films were pulled from the 2024 contenders…
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Oscar History: October 9 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1888: Irving Cummings (70 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Directing 1890: Samuel Hoffenstein (56 at death) {3 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Adaptation, Screenplay, Scoring 1896: Robert Armbruster (97 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Adaptation or Treatment Score 1902: Sheila O’Brien…
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Oscar History: October 8 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1911: Irvine Warburton (70 at death) {2 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Editing Oscar Win: Editing 1912: Gaston Diehl (87 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Two-Reel Short Film Oscar Win: Two-Reel Short Film 1912: Ralph Kemplen (91 at death) {3 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar…
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Box Office History (Week 40, 2024)
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…
