Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar Profile #441: Paul Lukas
Born May 26, 1891 in Budapest, Hungary, Paul Lukas was the son of Adolf Munkácsi and Mária Schneckendorf. He was later adopted by Mária (née Zilahy) and János Lukács, an advertising executive, possibly in 1895, the year given as his year of birth during his lifetime. Lukas volunteered for the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1913 and…
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This Day in Oscar History: April 25 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 24 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 23 (2019)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Apr. 19-21, 2019
We had no films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations.
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This Day in Oscar History: April 22 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 21 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 20 (2019)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 16, 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: April 19 (2019)
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Oscar Profile #440: William A. Fraker
Born September 29, 1923 in Los Angeles, California, William A. Fraker III was the son of William A. Fraker, Jr., Department Head of Still Photography at Columbia, and his Mexican born wife who fled Mazatlan, Mexico with her mother and sister on a mule during Mexico’s revolution in 1910. Both parents died of influenza in…
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This Day in Oscar History: April 18 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 17 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 16 (2019)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Apr. 12-14, 2019
We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Missing Link There is only one studio to date that has managed to secure a Best Animated Feature nomination every time they’ve made a movie. Not Pixar. Not Disney. Not Aardman. Laika is the undisputed king of the Animated Feature category,…
