Category: Academy Awards
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90th Oscars: Documentary Feature Submissions
The Academy has announced the list of 170 films that are eligible for consideration in this year’s Best Documentary Feature category. They will further narrow this list down to a list of finalists from which the five nominees will be selected. 170 DOCUMENTARY FEATURES SUBMITTED FOR 2017 OSCAR® RACE LOS ANGELES, CA – One hundred…
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90th Oscars: Special Academy Award Announced
It’s been 22 years since an individual film has been recognized by the Academy by conferring upon its makers or producers an honorary Oscar. Below is a press release from the Academy presenting a special achievement award on the Virtual Reality documentary “Carne y Arena” from Alejandro G. Iñárritu and others. And while this is…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 27 (2017)
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Oscar Profile #363: Alan Ladd
Born September 3, 1913 to Ina Rawley and Alan Ladd, an accountant, Alan Walbridge Ladd was four when his father died. He was five when he burned his apartment, playing with matches. His mother moved them to Oklahoma City. He was malnourished, undersize and nicknamed “Tiny” at eight, when his mother married a housepainter who…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 26 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 25 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 24 (2017)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Oct. 20-22, 2017
We had three films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. BPM (Beats Per Minute) Once upon a time, there were two countries that utterly dominated the Academy’s Best Foreign Language Film competitions. France and Italy maintain two insurmountable records. Italy is currently the most honored nation in Oscar history, having won…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 23 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 22 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 21 (2017)
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90th Oscars: Screener Watch – 20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox has sent a single screener. They may send others since they have more films available, but for now, it’s just their earliest big release. Logan Oscar Chances: Unlikely: Although it deserves tons of recognition, especially for Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart, I highly doubt anything will come of this campaign. Campaign-Proposed Categories…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 42, 2017)
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: October 20 (2017)
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Oscar Profile #362: Richard Barthelmess
Born May 9, 1895 in New York New York, Richard Barthelmess was the son of stage actress Caroline Harris (1866-1937) and her husband, Alfred Barthelmess who died when Richard was just a year old. He had walk-ons in his mother’s plays from an early age. Educated at Hudson River Military Academy and Trinity College, he…
