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…
Return Links Polls Best of Oscar Hosts In our third week, we continue looking at the best Oscar hosts in history. We continue into the era of solo hosts and repeated hosting jobs.
Born August 9, 1918 in Cranston, Rhode Island, to the former Lora Lawson and newspaper publisher Edward Burgess Aldrich, Robert Aldrich was a long-time Hollywood director. He was the grandson of U.S. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, nephew of John D. Rockefeller and cousin of Nelson Rockefeller. He was educated at the Moses Brown School in…
Page Revisions: (March 12, 2017) Original (July 9, 2017) New Trailer (#2) (October 15, 2017) New Posters (#1-#3) / Added Image Gallery Release Date: October 20, 2017 Synopsis: From IMDb: “When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate start to attack Earth, it’s a race against the clock to uncover the real…
In 1991, Disney’s animated renaissance went into overdrive with Beauty and the Beast, which grossed more than $300 million at the box office (adjusted for inflation), and became the first animated film in history to earn a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars. The film received six total nominations, winning two for Original Song for…
Page Revisions: (March 12, 2017) Original (May 7, 2017) New Trailer (#2) / New Posters (#6-#12) (June 4, 2017) New Trailer (#3) / New Posters (#13-#15) (June 11, 2017) New Poster (#16) Release Date: June 16, 2017 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A male stripper ends up dead at a Miami beach house during a bachelorette party…
New This Week Films about American first ladies are rare, yet there have been more than two hundred theatrical films and TV productions made about just four of them. There have been 38 each featuring Eleanor Roosevelt and Martha Washington and 86 featuring Mary Todd Lincoln. Jacqueline Kennedy (Onassis) is in the middle with just…