Category: Academy Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: June 24 (2016)
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Oscar Profile #293: Kathy Bates
Born Kathleen Doyle Bates in Memphis, Tennessee on June 28, 1948, the third child of a mechanical engineer and a homemaker, Kathy Bates’ paternal grandfather was author Finis Bates. A great-great grandfather was Andrew Jackson’s physician in New Orleans. Majoring in theatre at Southern Methodist University from which she graduated in 1969, Bates immediately moved…
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This Day in Oscar History: June 23 (2016)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 22 (2016)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 21 (2016)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Jun. 17-19, 2016
We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Finding Dory It wasn’t until 2001 that the Academy introduced its Best Animated Feature category, meaning that Pixar had to wait until it’s fourth feature to earn its first Oscar nomination in the category for Monsters, Inc.. Since then, the studio…
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This Day in Oscar History: June 20 (2016)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 19 (2016)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 18 (2016)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 25, 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: June 17 (2016)
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Oscar Profile #292: Faye Dunaway
Born January 14, 1941 in Bascom, Florida to John Dunaway, a U.S. Army NCO and his wife Grace, a housewife, Faye Dunaway grew up in Florida, attending both Florida State University and the University of Florida before attending Boston University from which she graduated with a degree in theatre in 1962. Immediately after graduation she…
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This Day in Oscar History: June 16 (2016)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 15 (2016)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 14 (2016)
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