Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar Profile #418: Charles Brackett
Born November 26, 1892 in Sarasota Springs, New York to New York State Senator Edgar Truman Brackett and his wife Mary, nee Corliss, Charles Brackett’s American family heritage could be traced back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629. A 1915 graduate of Williams College, he earned his degree from Harvard University. A member of…
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91st Oscars: The Precursors Are Coming
Oscar Season is just around the corner (Friday, Nov. 16, 2017 to be specific), with the first nominations of the year. Throughout the next four months, we’ll be posting almost daily updates with precursor winners and nominees from across all organizations, critics groups, and guilds. Below is a calendar of events that should help you…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 15 (2018)
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2018 Oscar Nominations Predictions: November
As is our tradition, May begins our first predictive look at the year’s Oscar hopefuls. A lot of factors will play into how well our guesses hold up. Expect many of them to fall by the wayside as the year progresses and new contenders to rise into their places. We are on the cusp of…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 14 (2018)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 13 (2018)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Oct. 9-11, 2018
We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. The Grinch Dr. Seuss’s classic story about a mean-spirited grump who steals Christmas from the holiday-loving people of Whoville was told to great acclaim in 1966 with the television movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. The perennial TV staple stood for…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 12 (2018)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 11 (2018)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 10 (2018)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 45, 2018)
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: November 9 (2018)
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91st Oscars: Documentary Feature Submissions
Below are the submissions for consideration for Best Documentary Feature at the Oscars this year. These will, of course, be narrowed significantly later this year, so take these as passingly informative. 166 DOCUMENTARY FEATURES SUBMITTED FOR 2018 OSCAR® RACE
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Oscar Profile #417: Winona Ryder
Born October 29, 1971 as Winona Laura Horowitz in Winona, Minnesota, the actress chose her professional last name of Ryder while listening to an album by Mitch Ryder. Her mother is an author, video producer and editor, and her father an author, editor, publisher and antiquarian bookseller. He also worked as an archivist for psychedelic…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 8 (2018)
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