Category: Academy Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: November 6 (2015)
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88th Oscars: Animated Feature Shortlist
The Academy has revealed a list of 16 films that will compete for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature this year. Based on the number of eligible films, there will be five nominations in this category. However, 16 is the bare minimum number, so if one of these films doesn’t release as required by…
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Oscar Profile #260: Phillips Holmes
Born July 22, 1907 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Phillips Holmes was the eldest of three children of actors Taylor Holmes (1878-1959) and Edna Phillips (1878-1951). He, his sister Madeline and their younger brother Ralph all joined the family profession, with young Phillips making his film debut as his father’s son in 1918’s Uneasy Money. A…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 5 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 4 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 3 (2015)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2015
We had no films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations.
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This Day in Oscar History: November 2 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 1 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 31 (2015)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 44, 2015)
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 30 (2015)
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Oscar Profile #259: Maureen O’Hara Updated
This is an update of the profile I wrote on the legendary Irish-born red-headed screen icon, Maureen O’Hara, five years ago. I said at the time that she may well be the greatest living actress never to have been nominated for an Oscar. The Academy rectified that deficiency when they presented her with an honorary…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 29 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 28 (2015)
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