Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar Preview: Who’ll Be Back? – Part 7
On our message board, the UAADB (Unofficial Academy Award Discussion Board), we have an annual tradition where we look at the year’s Oscar nominees in certain categories and try to decide if the individual will make a return to the Oscars at some point in the near future. There’s also a bonus round for predicting…
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Oscar Profile #338: Joseph Walker
Born August 22, 1892 in Denver, Colorado, Joseph Bailey Walker worked as a wireless telephone engineer, inventor and photographer of documentaries for the Red Cross during World War I before beginning his feature film career in 1919 with Back to God’s Country, a Canadian film that was filmed near the Artic Circle. He then freelanced…
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This Day in Oscar History: May 4 (2017)
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2017 Oscar Nominations Predictions: First Predictions
As is our tradition, May begins our first predictive look at the year’s Oscar hopefuls. A lot of factors will play into how well our guesses hold up. Expect many of them to fall by the wayside as the year progresses and new contenders to rise into their places. Our plan is to update our…
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This Day in Oscar History: May 3 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: May 2 (2017)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Apr. 28-30, 2017
We had no films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations.
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This Day in Oscar History: May 1 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 30 (2017)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 29 (2017)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 17, 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: April 28 (2017)
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Oscar Preview: Who’ll Be Back? – Part 6
On our message board, the UAADB (Unofficial Academy Award Discussion Board), we have an annual tradition where we look at the year’s Oscar nominees in certain categories and try to decide if the individual will make a return to the Oscars at some point in the near future. There’s also a bonus round for predicting…
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Oscar Profile #337: Jonathan Demme
Born February 22, 1944 in Baldwin, N.Y., (Robert) Jonathan Demme was the son of Robert Demme, a public relations manager and his wife, Dorothy. The family later moved to Florida, where he graduated from Southwest Miami High School and the University of Florida. Demme had an early job as a film critic for a shopping…
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This Day in Oscar History: April 27 (2017)
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