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Movie Monday: 1929 – 1st Academy Awards

Misha Crews

March 7, 2011

Wow, my first Movie Monday blog! I’m so excited! There are two movies we’re talking about this week: two of the three movies that were nominated for the first Best Picture Oscar! (The third movie, The Racket, is supposed to be on its way from a rare movies web dealer. I ordered it awhile ago …

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February 27, 2011

Happy Oscar Day, everyone! Yes, the Academy Awards are finally here, and we can all gather ’round the merry twinkling of our televisions, basking in the glow of Hollywood’s brightest stars. It’s hard to believe that the first Academy Award celebration was held almost 82 years ago, on May 16, 1929. It wasn’t televised then, …