Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar Profile #618: James Whitmore
Born October 1, 1921 in White Plains, New York to a park commission official and his wife, James Whitmore went to Choate school in Waterford, Connecticut on a football scholarship and then Yale University where he turned to acting after suffering a knee injury. He joined the U.S. Marines at the outbreak of World War…
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This Day in Oscar History: September 29 (2022)
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This Day in Oscar History: September 28 (2022)
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This Day in Oscar History: September 27 (2022)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Sep. 23-25, 2022
We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Don’t Worry, Darling When a film has this much press going for it, sometimes the scathing reviews don’t bother its Oscar chances. Olivia Wilde’s box office champion Don’t Worry, Darling is a 60s-set drama with a mystery at its core that…
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This Day in Oscar History: September 26 (2022)
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This Day in Oscar History: September 25 (2022)
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This Day in Oscar History: September 24 (2022)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 38, 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: September 23 (2022)
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Oscar Profile #617: Darryl Hickman
Born July 28, 1931 in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California, Darryl Hickman was the older son of Milton and Katherine Hickman. His father was an insurance salesman and mother a housewife. Hickman’s younger actor brother Dwayne was born in 1934. As of 1940 the family was living with their maternal grandfather, Louis Henry…
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This Day in Oscar History: September 22 (2022)
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This Day in Oscar History: September 21 (2022)
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This Day in Oscar History: September 20 (2022)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Sep. 16-18, 2022
We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. The Woman King Whether or not many considered The Woman King a major Oscar contender before now, they certainly will going forward. Opening wide this weekend, Gina Prince-Bythewood’s historical epic about a powerful African state of the 18th and 19th centuries…
