Category: Academy Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: October 9 (2015)
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88th Oscars: Foreign Language Film Submissions
Below is the press release from the Academy listing 81 films in competition for Oscar nominations this year. Son of Saul is the only title on this list that people will be genuinely shocked about not seeing on the next list the Academy unveils late this year. 81 COUNTRIES IN COMPETITION FOR 2015 FOREIGN LANGUAGE…
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Oscar Profile #256: Dalton Trumbo
Born December 9, 1905 in Montrose, Colorado to a shoe store clerk and his homemaker wife, Dalton Trumbo would become the most famous of the Hollywood Ten when he was blacklisted in 1947. Educated in Colorado and Southern California, Trumbo became the sole support of his mother and younger sisters when his father died of…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 8 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 7 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 6 (2015)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Oct. 2-4, 2015
We had three films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. The Martian The last time Ridley Scott was a serious contender for a Best Picture nomination was 2000 for Gladiator and he got it. Since then, he’s been delivering countless films that critics have been less than enthused with or have…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 5 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 4 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 3 (2015)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 40, 2015)
Every week, we’ll take a look back in 5-year intervals in the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office that 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 2 (2015)
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Oscar Profile #255: Edward G. Robinson
Born Emmanuel Goldenberg in Bucharest, Romania on December 12, 1893, the future Edward G. Robinson emigrated to the U.S. with his parents at the age of 9. While studying law at City College of New York, he gravitated toward acting, making his Broadway debut in 1915 and his film debut the following year. He became…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 1 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: September 30 (2015)
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