Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar Profile #345: Joseph LaShelle
Born July 9, 1900 in Los Angeles, California, Joseph LaShelle was trained as an electrical engineer, but went to work at Paramount as a lab technician in order earn money for tuition at Stanford University. Promoted to superintendent of the printing room within three years, he decided to forego his college education and stay on…
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This Day in Oscar History: June 22 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 21 (2017)
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Oscar Statistics: Foreign Language Films, Part 2
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. Every week, we’ll take a…
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This Day in Oscar History: June 20 (2017)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Jun. 16-17, 2017
We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Cars 3 Returning to the world of Cars, 11 years after narrowly losing Best Animated Feature to the now-largely-forgotten Happy Feet, Pixar is hoping to return to the Oscar race with only the second film they’ve made more than one sequel…
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This Day in Oscar History: June 19 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 18 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 17 (2017)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 24, 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: June 16 (2017)
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Oscar Profile #344: Nancy Meyers
Born December 8, 1949 to an executive at a voting machine plant and his wife, an interior designer, Nancy Meyers is an American director, producer and screenwriter. At the age of 12, Meyers became interested in the theatre after reading Moss Hart’s autobiography, Act One. Upon graduating college, she spent a year working in public…
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This Day in Oscar History: June 15 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 14 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 13 (2017)
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