Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 43, 2022)
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: October 28 (2022)
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Oscar Profile #622: Irwin Shaw
Born February 27, 1913 in the Borough of the Bronx in New York, New York, Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff and his younger brother, David, were the sons of Russian-Jewish immigrants who changed their last name to Shaw when they entered college. He wrote several scripts for radio dramas in the 1930s, writing his first screenplay in…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 27 (2022)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 26 (2022)
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Precursor: 32nd Gotham Awards Nominations (2022)
While there are several names here that are Oscar contenders, a lot of them aren’t and that calls into question the purpose of these awards, especially since they only look at indie cinema and they don’t seem to examine late-year releases as often. Nominations Tallies (5) Tár (4) Aftersun (3) Everything Everywhere All at Once,…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 25 (2022)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Oct. 21-23, 2022
We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. The Banshees of Inisherin You would never know it from his skill as a director, but Martin McDonagh has only directed four feature-length films. His first, In Bruges, released in 2008 and starred Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell as hitmen wrestling…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 24 (2022)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 23 (2022)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 22 (2022)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 42, 2022)
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: October 21 (2022)
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Oscar Profile #621: Franz Planer
Born March 29, 1894, Franz Planer was born into a wealthy family in Karlsbad, Austria-Hungary, now part of the Czech Republic. The Planer family was very influential, owning large tracts of farmland, businesses, libraries, and shops, including several properties in and around Vienna, some of which were stolen by several low-ranking officers for their own…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 20 (2022)
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