Category: Academy Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: August 14 (2021)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 33, 2021)
Every week, we’ll take a look back in 5-year intervals at the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office each weekend historically. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the box office (as well as a section looking…
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This Day in Oscar History: August 13 (2021)
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Oscar Profile #560: Shirley Booth
Born August 30, 1898 in Brooklyn, New York as Marjory Ford but known growing up as Thelma Ford, this future Tony, Oscar, and Emmy winner would be known professionally as Shirley Booth. Booth made her stage debut in a stock company production of Mother Carey’s Chickens. She changed her name due to her father’s objections…
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This Day in Oscar History: August 12 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: August 11 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: August 10 (2021)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Aug. 6-8, 2021
We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. The Suicide Squad Superhero films and comic book adaptations have, for ages, been popular with audiences, but they’ve seldom gained the respectability that comes with non-genre pictures. Sure, many of them had strong responses from critics, but awards organizations have always…
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This Day in Oscar History: August 9 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: August 8 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: August 7 (2021)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 32, 2021)
Every week, we’ll take a look back in 5-year intervals at the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office each weekend historically. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the box office (as well as a section looking…
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This Day in Oscar History: August 6 (2021)
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Oscar Profile #559: Todd Haynes
Born January 2, 1961 in Los Angeles, California, Todd Haynes was one of four children of Allen and Shelley Haynes. His mother’s family was Ashkenazi Jewish (from Poland, Romania, and Russia) and his father, who was a cosmetics importer, had English/Welsh ancestry. Haynes developed an interest in film at an early age. In 1978, he…
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This Day in Oscar History: August 5 (2021)
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