Category: Academy Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: August 6 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: August 5 (2014)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Aug. 1-3, 2014
We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Get On Up After hitting it big with his 2011 film The Help, director Tate Taylor took time off before mounting his latest film covering the life of legendary soul singer James Brown. The rocky life of the noted singer could…
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This Day in Oscar History: August 4 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: August 3 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: August 2 (2014)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 31, 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: August 1 (2014)
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Oscar Profile #197: Lana Turner
Born February 8, 1921 in Wallace, Idaho, Julia Jean “Lana” Turner was the daughter of teenage parents John (1903-1930) and Mildred (1904-1982) Turner. Her father, originally a coal miner from Montgomery, Alabama had by the time of his death at 27 become a con man who was murdered on the streets of San Francisco where…
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This Day in Oscar History: July 31 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: July 30 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: July 29 (2014)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Jul. 25-28, 2014
We had three films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Hercules Back in the 1990’s, many of us lamented that the Best Visual Effects category at the Oscars was too narrow, allowing in only 3 nominees at maximum, leaving off countless deserving choices. As visual effects have become an ever-present part…
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This Day in Oscar History: July 28 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: July 27 (2014)
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