Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar History: January 1 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1887: Herman Rossse (78 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Art Direction/Production Design Oscar Win: Art Direction/Production Design 1887: Joseph T. Rucker (70 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Cinematography Oscar Win: Cinematography 1891: Charles Bickford (76 at death) {3 Noms, 0 Wins}…
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Oscar History: December 31 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1896: Philip Stevenson (68 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Screenplay 1897: Frank Skinner (70 at death) {5 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Original Score, Scoring, Drama Score, Drama/Comedy Score 1897: Orry-Kelly (66 at death) {4 Noms, 3 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Costume Design, Costume Design…
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Box Office History (Weeks 52 & 53, 2024)
Every week, we’ll take a look back at how Oscar-nominated films performed at the box office. Due to the lack of data prior to 1980, some of these early years may have minimal information. From the mid-1990s back to 1980, the data exists, but is sometimes spotty. Everything after that should be accurate. We’ll look…
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Oscar History: December 30 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones 2011: Cinema Sight: Friday Face-Off (13) 2023: Awards Landscape Launches (1) 2023: Awards Landscape: Contenders (1) Born 1897: Lawrence Weingarten (77 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Picture Oscar Win: Irving G. Thalberg Award 1901: Henry Blanke (79 at death) {1 Nom, 0…
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Oscar History: December 29 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1888: John Sturtevant (80 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Art Direction/Production Design (Color) 1891: Alfred Gilks (78 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Cinematography (Color) Oscar Win: Cinematography (Color) 1900: C. C. Coleman Jr. (71 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar…
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Oscar History: December 28 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1890: Frank Butler (76 at death) {3 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Original Screenplay, Screenplay Oscar Win: Screenplay 1908: Lew Ayres (88 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Actor 1934: Herb Gardner (68 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Adapted Screenplay 1934: Maggie…
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Oscar History: December 27 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1879: Sydney Greenstreet (74 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Supporting Actor 1892: Albert S. D’Agostino (77 at death) {5 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Art Direction/Production Design, Art Direction/Production Design (Black-and-White) 1894: Wesley C. Miller (67 at death) {4 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations:…
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Oscar Profile: Joseph Walker Revisited
Born August 22, 1892 in Denver, Colorado, Joseph Bailey Walker worked as a wireless telephone engineer, inventor and photographer of documentaries for the Red Cross during World War I before beginning his feature film career in 1919 with Back to God’s Country, a Canadian film that was filmed near the Artic Circle. He then freelanced as…
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Oscar History: December 26 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1880: Monckton Hoffe (70 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original Story 1894: Stephen Dunn (85 at death) {4 Noms, 3 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Sound/Sound Mixing Oscar Wins: Sound/Sound Mixing, Sci-Tech Award – Type II (Plaque) 1899: Irmgard Von Cube (77 at death) {1 Nom,…
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Oscar History: December 25 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1878: Joseph M. Schenck (82 at death) {0 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Win: Special/Honorary 1888: Sonya Levien (71 at death) {2 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Adaptation, Story and Screenplay Oscar Win: Story and Screenplay 1889: Nathaniel Shilkret (92 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination:…
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8th Online Female Critics Awards
The Substance was the easy winner of most awards with this group but a tie in Best Picture led to co-best-of status with Anora, which took a total of 2 awards to Substance‘s 6. Nothing particularly alarming or exciting here. Awards Tallies (6) The Substance (2) Anora, Conclave, A Real Pain (1) All We Imagine…
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Oscar History: December 24 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1886: Michael Curtiz (75 at death) {4 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Directing Oscar Win: Directing 1893: Ruth Chatterton (67 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Actress 1893: Harry Warren (87 at death) {11 Noms, 3 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Original Song Oscar Wins: Original Song…
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7th Greater WNY Critics Nominations
The Brutalist and Anora are the darlings of the awards season along with Nickel Boys and Sing Sing but Challengers did quite a bit better than expected with this group. Nominations Tallies (8) The Brutalist (7) Anora (6) Challengers, Nickel Boys (4) Sing Sing (3) A Complete Unknown, Dune: Part Two, No Other Land, Nosferatu,…
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16th North Texas Critics Nominations
The North Texas film critics organization favored many of the standard names on every organization’s lips this year with everything from 3 up being strong players. With few categories, any multiple of nominations is a good sign. Nominations Tallies (7) The Brutalist (5) Anora, Conclave, Nickel Boys, Sing Sing (4) Dune: Part Two, Wicked (3)…
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Box Office History (Week 51, 2024)
Every week, we’ll take a look back at how Oscar-nominated films performed at the box office. Due to the lack of data prior to 1980, some of these early years may have minimal information. From the mid-1990s back to 1980, the data exists, but is sometimes spotty. Everything after that should be accurate. We’ll look…
