Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar Profile #208: Irving Berlin
Born May 11, 1888 in Tyumen, Russian Empire, Israel Isidore Beilin, whose family name was later changed to Baline became known to the world as Irving Berlin. With his family at the age of five, he escaped a pogrom by the Cossacks after the burning of their house to make their way to New York.…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 16 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 15 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 14 (2014)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Oct. 10-12, 2014
We had Five films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. The Judge A master of forgettable comedies, director David Dobkins makes his first dramatic film with some heavyweight actors to do the heavy lifting. Starring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall, a film with this type star power is typically an…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 13 (2014)
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Academy Announces Foreign Film Submissions
Several outlets were sent the press release before it was live on their site, so I didn’t get this updated until now. Here are the record 83 submissions for the Oscars, including four first-time submissions from Kosovo, Malta, Mauritania and Panama. There are probably a few that will have better chances than others, but we…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 12 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 11 (2014)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 41, 2014)
Every week, we’ll take a look back 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years into the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office that weekend historically. All data is taken from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 10 (2014)
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Oscar Profile #207: George C. Scott
Born October 18, 1927, George C. (Campbell) Scott was the son of a Buick executive who raised him single-handedly after his mother’s death when he was just 8 years old. Enlisting in the U.S. Marines at 18, his primary duty from 1945 to 1949 was to serve as an honor guard at the burial of…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 9 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 8 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: October 7 (2014)
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