Category: Academy Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: May 24 (2017)
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Oscar Statistics: Foreign Language Films, Part 1
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 monthly (ideally), we’ll take…
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This Day in Oscar History: May 23 (2017)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of May 19-21, 2017
We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Alien: Covenant Science fiction and horror are two genres the Academy is typically averse to. While there are notable exceptions, they seem to be fewer and farther between than they once were. That doesn’t mean recognition is non-existent. One franchise that…
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This Day in Oscar History: May 22 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: May 21 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: May 20 (2017)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 20, 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: May 19 (2017)
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Oscar Profile #340: Kate Winslet
Born October 5, 1975 in Reading, Berskshire, England, Kate Elizabeth Winslet was one of four children of a barmaid and a swimming pool contractor, both of whom were part-time actors. Actor Robert Bridges was her mother’s brother. Winslet made her acting debut in a TV commercial at the age of 2, and as a teenager…
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This Day in Oscar History: May 18 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: May 17 (2017)
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90th Oscars: Jimmy Kimmel Returns
Thanks to the generally great reviews host Jimmy Kimmel received last year for hosting the Oscars, he has been invited to return in May for next March’s Oscars. I can’t say for sure without a LOT of research, but after waiting until terribly late last year to pick one and the historical precedent of picking…
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This Day in Oscar History: May 16 (2017)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of May 12-14, 2017
We had no films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations.
