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Never Won an Oscar: The Actresses
Photographic Evidence

Never Won an Oscar: The Actresses

Feb 20, 2015 Jill Blake 1

With the Academy Awards ceremony coming up this Sunday, February 22, we decided to take a look at some of the best actors and actresses who never won an Oscar for their acting talents. In this gallery, […]

Listicles

Top 5 Films Never Nominated for an Oscar

Feb 19, 2015 Wade Sheeler 4

With the Academy Awards just around the corner, all of us (nominees and fans alike) can get whipped up into a froth over who should win. And while the nominees who DON’T get to pick […]

Pantages Never Won an Oscar
Photographic Evidence

Never Won an Oscar: The Actors

Feb 18, 2015 Jill Blake 3

With the Academy Awards ceremony coming up this Sunday, February 22, we decided to take a look at some of the best actors and actresses who never won an Oscar for their acting talents. In this gallery, […]

Frank Capra, D.W. Griffith, Jean Hersholt, Henry B. Walthall, Frank Lloyd, Cecil B. DeMille and Donald Crisp
Opinion

The Oscar Ceremony That Almost Wasn’t

Feb 18, 2015 Jon Mullich 1

The red carpet, the secret envelopes, and the after-party glitz and glam have become so ingrained in how we perceive the Oscar ceremony, that it’s hard to imagine a time when they weren’t anything like […]

Fredric March Academy Awards
Books

Book Review: 85 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards

Mar 2, 2014 Jill Blake 0

85 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards (Abbeville Press, 464 pages, $75) By Robert Osborne In 1979, Robert Osborne published the book 50 Golden Years of Oscar: The Official History […]

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