Category: Academy Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: September 29 (2017)
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Oscar Profile #359: Gene Kelly
Born August 23, 1912 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Eugene (Gene) Kelly was the third son of a phonograph salesman and his wife. His father had once been Al Jolson’s road manager. Although it was Gene’s dream to play shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates, his mother enrolled Gene and his older brother James in dance classes when…
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This Day in Oscar History: September 28 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: September 27 (2017)
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90th Oscars: Screener Watch – Netflix & Lincoln Square
Two disparate screeners, the documentary Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992 and the Netflix purchase Okja. Okja Oscar Chances: Unlikely: Netflix’s anti-theatrical release model has been steadfastly ignored by the Academy, its Beasts of No Nations getting the shaft, even for the lauded supporting performance of Idris Elba. This Bong Joon Ho drama has been…
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Oscar Statistics: Is There Ageism at the Oscars?
Every month, we’re going to be looking at the Oscars in a different way. While most of our content deals with predictions and precursors and reviews and previews and everything in between, the facts and statistics surrounding the Oscars are seldom referenced but in passing. These articles will change that. No more than once a…
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This Day in Oscar History: September 26 (2017)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Sep. 22-24, 2017
We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Battle of the Sexes The story of the legendary tennis match between loutish Bobby Riggs (here played by Steve Carell) and superstar Billie Jean King (Emma Stone), has been translated to the big screen by the directing team behind Little Miss…
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This Day in Oscar History: September 25 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: September 24 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: September 23 (2017)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 38, 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: September 22 (2017)
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Oscar Profile #358: Christopher Walken
Born March 31, 1943 in Astoria, Queens, the son of a bakery owner and his wife, Ronald Walken, named by his mother after her favorite actor, Ronald Colman, and his brothers Kenneth and Glenn were child actors on television and in the theatre in the 1950s. Initially billed as Ronnie, the actor changed his first…
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This Day in Oscar History: September 21 (2017)
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