Category: Academy Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: June 7 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 6 (2015)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 23, 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: June 5 (2015)
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Oscar Profile #238: Clint Eastwood
Born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, California to a factory worker mother and a steelworker father, Clinton Eastwood Jr. attended Los Angeles City College but dropped out before graduating. Drafted into the U.S. Army, he served as lifeguard at Fort Ord on the Monterey Peninsula where he was discovered by Universal. On screen in…
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This Day in Oscar History: June 4 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 3 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: June 2 (2015)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of May 29-31, 2015
We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. San Andreas The Academy has a long and loving history with the disaster genre. Several popular, all-star casts help bolster an era when films like Airport and The Towering Inferno were Best Picture nominees and others like Earthquake and The Poseidon…
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This Day in Oscar History: June 1 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: May 31 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: May 30 (2015)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 22, 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: May 29 (2015)
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Oscar Profile #237: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Born July 23, 1967 in Fairport, New York, a suburb of Rochester, Philip Seymour Hoffman was the son of a lawyer, now a judge, and her first husband, a Xerox employee. Educated at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, he graduated with a B.F.A. degree in Drama in 1989. By 1991 he was acting in…
