Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar Profile #96: Robert Ryan
Born November 11, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois, Robert Ryan graduated Dartmouth College in 1932, having held the school’s heavyweight boxing championship all four years of his attendance. After graduation he found work as a sandhog, seaman, sewer builder, salesman, miner, cowboy, bodyguard-chauffeur to a mobster, photographer’s model, W.P.A. laborer and paving supervisor before turning to…
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This Day in Oscar History: July 26 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: July 25 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: July 24 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Jul. 20-22, 2012
We had two films releasing this weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. The Dark Knight Ries The precedents are all there. The first film earned a single nomination for Cinematography. The second film earned eight nominations, including two Oscars and narrowly missed out on a Best Picture nomination due to a rule not being…
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This Day in Oscar History: July 23
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: July 22
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: July 21
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 29, 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: July 20
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar Profile #95: Douglas Shearer
Born November 17, 1899 in Westmount, Quebec, Canada to a prominent family, young Douglas stayed with his father when his parents divorced and his mother moved to New York with his two younger sisters, Athole and Norma. The women eventually made their way to Hollywood where they worked as actresses in the early 1920s. While…
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This Day in Oscar History: July 19
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: July 18
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: July 17
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Jul. 20-22, 2012
We had one film releasing this weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Ice Age: Continental Drift I will state up front that I think the Academy will ignore this film like every one of its predecessors. The reason the article is being written is that stranger things have happened. Let’s look back to the…
