Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of May 2-4, 2014
We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 The original trilogy did decently well with the Oscars. The first received two Oscar nominations. The third picked up three and even won the award for Best Visual Effects. Starting with the third film, Spider-Man stopped being…
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This Day in Oscar History: May 5 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: May 4 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: May 3 (2014)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 18, 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: May 2 (2014)
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Oscar Profile #184: Alan J. Pakula
Born April 7, 1928 in the Bronx, New York to parents of Polish Jewish ancestry, Alan J. Pakula majored in drama at Yale. He began his Hollywood career as an assistant in the cartoon department at Yale. Having convinced his father, who owned a successful printing business, to give him the money to finance a…
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This Day in Oscar History: May 1 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 30 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 29 (2014)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Apr. 25-27, 2014
We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Locke Screenwriter Steven Knight, who received an Oscar nomination for his screenplay for Dirty Pretty Things and whose Eastern Promises screenplay helped lead to an Oscar nomination for Viggo Mortensen has made his second feature as a director and it’s possible…
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This Day in Oscar History: April 28 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 27 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 26 (2014)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 17, 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…
