Category: Academy Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: June 3 (2016)
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Oscar Profile #290: Howard Hawks
Born May 30, 1896 in Goshen, Indiana, Howard Winchester Hawks was the eldest of five children of one of the Midwest’s wealthiest families. The family moved to Pasadena, California due to his mother’s poor health after the birth of her fifth child in 1906. He would attend Cornell University in Ithaca, New York studying mechanical…
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2016 Oscar Nominations Predictions: And So It Begins…
We normally like to begin in May, but we missed our deadline by a couple days. Regardless, we’re now ready to put into place our very first predictions of 2016. The year isn’t quite half over yet, but a number of strong films have emerged as contenders. This is reflected in our fairly strong unanimity…
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This Day in Oscar History: June 2 (2016)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 1 (2016)
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This Day in Oscar History: May 31 (2016)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of May 27-29, 2016
We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Alice Through the Looking Glass When Tim Burton brought his vision of the classic Lewis Carroll novels to the big screen in 2010 with Alice in Wonderland, a new era was born. This era featured Disney almost annually resurrecting its legendary…
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This Day in Oscar History: May 30 (2016)
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This Day in Oscar History: May 29 (2016)
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This Day in Oscar History: May 28 (2016)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 22, 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: May 27 (2016)
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Oscar Profile #289: John Carradine
Born Richmond Reed Carradine on February 5, 1906 in New York, New York, and billed as Peter Richmond, then John Peter Richmond through 1935, John Carradine eventually amassed 350 known screen and television credits beyond the 70 he claimed he did not get credit for in silent films, making him the most prolific actor in…
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This Day in Oscar History: May 26 (2016)
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This Day in Oscar History: May 25 (2016)
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