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Hattie McDaniel Academy Awards Gone With The Wind

Academy To Replace Hattie McDaniel’s Missing GONE WITH THE WIND Oscar

September 26, 2023 Rich Drees

The original award has been missing for nearly six decades.

Questions Over Upcoming CITIZEN KANE Academy Award Auction

July 20, 2023 Rich Drees

The Academy Award that Orson Welles won for co-writing the iconic CITIZEN KANE is being put up on the auction block. But we have questions about its eligibility to be sold.

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Big Picture Podcast: 2022 Academy Awards Post-Show Wrap-Up

March 28, 2022 Rich Drees

On this installment of the Big Picture Podcast, Rich Drees and Natasha Bogutzki hop onto the microphones to discuss the just completed Academy Awards, discussing everything from the historic wins to that THAT particular incident.

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The Tale Of Orson Welles’s Academy Award

February 28, 2022 Rich Drees

The Academy Award that Orson Welles received for writing CITIZEN KANE took a strange path to the auction block.

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Auctioning Academy Awards

February 23, 2022 Rich Drees

Despite prohibitions that keep some Academy Award statues from being sold, there is still a history of Oscars hitting the auction block.

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Oscars Greatest Mistakes: Alan Arkin In WAIT UNTIL DARK

March 19, 2021 Rich Drees

Alan Arkin’s portrayal of a ruthless drug smuggler terrorizing a blind Audrey Hepburn is considered by some to be one of the most terrifying performances in the movies. So why wasn’t he nominated for an Oscar?

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How The Oscars’ Best Picture Preferential Ballots Works

February 6, 2020 Rich Drees

Voting for Best Picture is not as cut-and-dry as one would think thanks to the method the Academy uses.

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Two Best Picture Oscar Statues Up For Auction

November 19, 2018 Rich Drees

The Academy Awards for MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY and GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT are going up on the sales block.

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Oscar’s Greatest Mistakes: THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL And Lana Turner

February 12, 2017 Rich Drees

Hollywood loves to mythologize itself. An obvious statement given that since the movie industry has carefully controlled its public image so meticulously that that control naturally extended to movies about the movie business. And that’s [click for more]

6th Update! For Your Consideration: Read 2016 Awards Season Screenplay Hopefuls

December 31, 2015 Rich Drees

Studios have posted 45 screenplays that they hope will be in contention during this awards season.

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