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This Day in Oscar History: March 27 (2020)

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March 27, 2020
Oscar Profile #289: Doctors and Nurses

The heroes on the front lines of the current coronavirus pandemic are the doctors and nurses who treat the sick and dying and the scientists who race to find a new form of treatment if not a cure for the horrific disease. Films about the heroics performed by like-minded individuals of the past were quite…

March 26, 2020
This Day in Oscar History: March 26 (2020)

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March 26, 2020
This Day in Oscar History: March 25 (2020)

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March 25, 2020
This Day in Oscar History: March 24 (2020)

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March 24, 2020
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Mar. 20-22, 2020

There were no new releases last weekend and will not be for an indefinite period of time. This article will go on hiatus until normalization occurs.

March 23, 2020
This Day in Oscar History: March 23 (2020)

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March 23, 2020
This Day in Oscar History: March 22 (2020)

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March 22, 2020
This Day in Oscar History: March 21 (2020)

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March 21, 2020
Oscar in Box Office History (Week 12, 2020)

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…

March 20, 2020
This Day in Oscar History: March 20 (2020)

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March 20, 2020
Oscar Profile #488: George Roy Hill

Born December 20, 1921 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, George Roy Hill was the son of George Roy and Helen Frances Hill, owners of the Minneapolis Tribune. Young Hill had a love of flying and obtained his pilot’s license at the age of sixteen. He also loved classical music, especially Bach, and as an undergraduate at Yale…

March 19, 2020
This Day in Oscar History: March 19 (2020)

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March 19, 2020
This Day in Oscar History: March 18 (2020)

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March 18, 2020
This Day in Oscar History: March 17 (2020)

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March 17, 2020