Every week, we’ll take a look back in 5-year intervals at the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office each weekend historically. All data is collected from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the…
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Below are our ten face-offs for this week. Each category requires you to select a certain number of films to save. For more information on how the game works, click here.
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Return Links Polls Remaking Best Supporting Actor, 2004 In our third pass of the Oscar nominees from 1997 through 2016, we take a look at the nominees for Best Supporting Actor. Each week, we’ll present a list of contenders from which you can select five to make up the Best Supporting Actor slate. There will…
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Page Revisions: (May 12, 2019) Original Release Date: July 12, 2019 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A Chinese family discover their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: The background often…
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Born April 3, 1924 in Cincinnati, Ohio to William Kappelhoff, a music teacher and choir master, and his wife Alma, a housewife, Doris Kappelhoff was the third of three children and the only girl. Her parents separated when she was ten and she lived thereafter with her mother. Intent on becoming a professional dancer, young…
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Born October 31, 1896 in Chester, Pennsylvania as the result of the rape of her 15-year-mother Louise Anderson by her 18-year-old father, pianist John Waters, Ethel Waters was raised in poverty by her grandmother, Sally Anderson who worked as a housemaid, along with two aunts and an uncle, her mother having married another man shortly…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Ceremonies
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Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (May 17-19, 2019)
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Page Revisions: (May 12, 2019) Original Release Date: May 17, 2019 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like Baku, but has a completely different personality.” Poster Rating:…
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While it’s possible Avengers: Endgame makes its final appearance in the number one position, it’s also possible, it falls just enough to let one of these films top it. As much as I want to say that John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum will be that film, A Dog’s Journey also has a strong claim…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Page Revisions: (May 12, 2019) Original Release Date: May 17, 2019 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Merricat, Constance and their Uncle Julian live in isolation after experiencing a family tragedy six years earlier. When cousin Charles arrives to steal the family fortune, he also threatens a dark secret they’ve been hiding.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS…
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New This Week The Heiress, given a new 4K restoration by the Criterion Collection, is a prime example of a film that improves upon both Henry James’1880 novel and the 1947 Broadway play on which it is based. William Wyler’s 1949 film was adapted by Ruth and Augustus Goetz from their 1947 play starring Wendy…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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