Category: Academy Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: October 15 (2016)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 42, 2016)
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 14 (2016)
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Oscar Profile #309: Ida Lupino
Born February 4, 1918 in London, England, Ida Lupino was the daughter of actors Stanley Lupino and Connie Emerald and the niece of actor Lupino Lane. Her theatrical ancestry goes back centuries to Bologna, Italy. Accompanying her mother to an audition, she was given the role her mother, the lead in the 1932 British film,…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 13 (2016)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 12 (2016)
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89th Oscars: Foreign Language Film Submissions
As in Springtime, the first flower to bloom for the annual Oscars race is the list of submissions for the Academy’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. This year, 85 countries have submitted films, many of them quite acclaimed. Below is the list and press release. 85 COUNTRIES IN COMPETITION FOR 2016 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OSCAR®…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 11 (2016)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Oct. 7-9, 2016
We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Birth of a Nation Sundance is often the early launching point for Oscar contenders who want to dig into the specialty box office and build buzz ahead of the Oscars. This year, they did just that. After a pre-screening standing ovation…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 10 (2016)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 9 (2016)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 8 (2016)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 41, 2016)
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 7 (2016)
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Oscar Profile #308: Cate Blanchett
Born May 14, 1969 in Ivanhoe, Australia, a suburb of Melbourne, Catherine Elise (Cate) Blanchett was the middle child of a property director/teacher Australian mother and an advertising executive Texas-born father. Her father died when she ten, leaving her mother to raise the family with the help of her grandmother. Blanchett graduated from Australia’s National…
