Category: Academy Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: September 5 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: September 4 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Aug. 31-Sep. 2, 2012
We had one film released this weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Lawless John Hillcoat’s bootlegger drama about siblings fighting to protect their operation from the mob during the prohibition era seemed like just the kind of film Oscar voters might once have embraced. Yet, the buzz surrounding Lawless may have been premature, much…
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This Day in Oscar History: September 3 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: September 2 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones 2010: Oscar Profile by Peter J. Patrick (2)
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This Day in Oscar History: September 1 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 35, 2012)
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 31 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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More Oscar Rules Changes
The cheetah no longer has spots. I had thought they had already finalized the rules for this year’s Oscars, but two new items were announced today: the first is that the music branch has finally relented from his discriminatory and easily-manipulated rules to require five nominees and for members to rank them. There’s no more…
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Oscar Profile #101: Hal Mohr – Oscar’s Only Write-in Winner
Born August 2, 1894, Hal Mohr was one of Hollywood’s most distinguished pioneering cinematographers. Fascinated with photography from an early age, Mohr built his own camera as a teenager, took and printed photographs which he sent to the New York Herald Tribune, which published many of them. Producer-exhibiter Sol Lesser took notice and hired him…
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This Day in Oscar History: August 30 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: August 29 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: August 28 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Aug. 24-26, 2012
We had zero films releasing this weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. None It’s a rare occasion that the weekend provides no Oscar possibilities, not even remote ones, but that’s this final pre-Labor Day weekend of the Summer. Starting next week, things really start gearing up. It probably won’t be as excitingly in the…
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This Day in Oscar History: August 27 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
