Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar History: November 10 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1889: Claude Rains (77 at death) {4 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Supporting Actor 1913: Les Bowie (65 at death) {0 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Win: Visual Effects 1925: Richard Burton (58 at death) {7 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Actor, Supporting Actor 1928: Ennio Morricone (91…
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Oscar History: November 9 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1868: Marie Dressler (65 at death) {2 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Actress Oscar Win: Actress 1883: Edna May Oliver (59 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Supporting Actress 1886: Ed Wynn (79 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Supporting Actor 1904: William…
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67th Grammy Awards Nominations
The Grammy nominations are out and despite recent years having more current competitors on the list, this year saw a lot of 2023 features nominated. “Love Will Survive” seems to be a big contender in Song, while Challengers is unlikely to compete but might now that Dune: Part Two has been ruled ineligible by the…
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Oscar History: November 8 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1902: Emmet Lavery (83 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Story and Screenplay 1909: George Wells (91 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Original Screenplay Oscar Win: Original Screenplay 1913: Robert Strauss (61 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Supporting Actor…
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Oscar Profile: Thelma Ritter Revisited
Born February 14, 1902 in Brooklyn, New York, Thelma Ritter was a hard-working, albeit obscure stage and radio actress whose movie breakthrough came in her first film, in an unbilled bit role in 1947’s Miracle on 34th Street. Her portrayal of a mother who is sent to Gimbels by Macy’s Santa made such an impression on…
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Oscar History: November 7 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1897: Herman J. Mankiewicz (55 at death) {2 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Original Screenplay, Screenplay Oscar Win: Original Screenplay 1903: Ary Barroso (60 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original Song 1903: Dean Jagger (87 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Supporting…
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15th Hollywood Music in Media Nominations
Not a terribly great precursor for the Oscars but some of their selections will put things in our head about potential and clearly Emilia Pérez has the most potential, especially in the Original Song category. Nominations Tallies (5) Emilia Pérez (3) Blitz (2) African Giants, Better Man, Challengers, A Complete Unknown, Elton John: Never Too…
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9th Seattle Critics Nominations (PNW Filmmaking)
These were announced 11/1 with the rest being announced in December. The Nominations Achievement in Pacific Northwest Filmmaking All We Carry Fish War Gasoline Rainbow Rainier: A Beer Odyssey Strange Darling Seattle Film Critics Society Data First (Reboot) Awards: 2016 (9)
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Contenders 24: November Update
For our November update, several films moved on from one stage to the next. Today, we’ll look at where each film moved and look at a new ranking of each of the contenders. Before we get to that, please note that I have also removed four films from this year’s contenders list as it does…
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Oscar History: November 6 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1886: Gus Kahn (54 at death) {3 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Original Song, Scoring Oscar Win: Scoring 1897: Rowland Brown (65 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Original Story 1911: Stephen Bosustow (69 at death) {14 Noms, 3 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Documentary Short, Animated…
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37th European Film Awards Nominations
With a new rule this year that the documentary and animated feature nominees are also Best Picture nominees, that slate is rather lengthy. It also means that there are a lot more 2-nomination films than typically. Good news for a few major Oscar contenders, Emilia Pérez, The Room Next Door, Ralph Fiennes, and Daniel Craig.…
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Oscar History: November 5 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1894: Farciot Edouart (85 at death) {9 Noms, 17 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Special Effects Oscar Wins: Special Effects, Special/Honorary, Sci-Tech Award – Type II (Plaque), Sci-Tech Award – Type III (Certificate) 1895: Charles MacArthur (60 at death) {3 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Original Story, Screenplay Oscar…
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Box Office History (Week 44, 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: November 4 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1879: Will Rogers (55 at death) {0 Noms, 0 Wins} Academy Awards Host: 6th | 1 time 1895: Ben Sharpsteen (85 at death) {3 Noms, 2 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Documentary Feature, Documentary Short, Live Action Short Film Oscar Wins: Documentary Feature, Documentary Short 1899: Tregoweth Brown (84…
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Oscar History: November 3 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1914: Gyula Trebitsch (91 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Foreign Film 1924: Robert E. Thompson (79 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Adapted Screenplay 1933: John Barry (77 at death) {7 Noms, 5 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Original Song, Original Score, Non-Musical Score,…
