Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar Profile #464: Joseph Schildkraut
Born March 22, 1896 in Vienna, Austria, Joseph Schildkraut was the son of famed stage actor Rudolph Schildkraut and his wife. On stage in Hamburg and later, Berlin with his father from the age of 6, he studied the piano and violin, graduating from Berlin’s Royal Academy of Music in 1911. The family moved to…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 3 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 2 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 1 (2019)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Sep. 27-29, 2019
We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Abominable Beyond DisneyPixar and Laika, there are only a couple of studios that have managed to successfully leverage their brand to Oscar nominations. DreamWorks employs probably the second large number of animators working today and their efforts are often recognized with…
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This Day in Oscar History: September 30 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: September 29 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: September 28 (2019)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 39, 2019)
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. All data is collected from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the…
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This Day in Oscar History: September 27 (2019)
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Oscar Profile #463: The Early Academy Awards (Revised)
The first Academy Awards for the fiscal year 1927/28 were held in May 1929. Films under consideration were supposed to be limited to films that opened in Los Angeles between August 1, 1927 and July 31, 1928 but the Academy’s reminder list included films that although they were still in theatres on August 1, 1927,…
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This Day in Oscar History: September 26 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: September 25 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: September 24 (2019)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Sep. 20-22, 2019
We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Ad Astra In recent years, sci-fi has played a significant role at the Academy Awards. Films like Arrival, The Martian, Gravity, Her, Inception, District 9, and Avatar managed Best Picture nominations in the expanded Best Picture slate, giving Oscar chances to…
