On this day in history as it relates to showbiz
Tuesday, January 24, 2017 at 8:10AM The Oscar nominations for the 89th annual Academy Awards are announced within the hour (eep). But if you'd rather think about something else (you may have your reasons, crazy person) here are other things you could celebrate today...
1862 Novelist Edith Wharton is born in New York. Gorgeous movies will later be made of her gilded age novels including The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth (pictured above)
1886 Oscar nominated director Henry King (Wilson and The Song of Bernadette) was born in Virginia
1909 British actress Ann Todd (The Paradine Case, The Sound Barrier) and former wife of David Lean was born
1917 Ernest Borgnine Centennial! He won the Oscar for the game-changing Marty, which warmed the Oscars up for future more indie-spirited fare
1927 Alfred Hitchcock first release The Pleasure Garden opens in England
1928 Beloved French actor Michel Serrault (Les Diaboliques, La Cage Aux Folles, Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud) was born. He was nominated for eight Césars winning three.
1936 "Blow, Gabriel Blooowww!" Anything Goes (1936) starring Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman opens in movie theaters. It's still more famous as a stage musical. It gets a remake in 1956, also starring Bing Crosby.
1941 Famous Singer Neil Diamond born in Brooklyn. He will try his hand at movie stardom just once with The Jazz Singer (1980)
1943 Doomed beauty Sharon Tate (The Fearless Vampire Killers, Valley of the Dolls) is born in Texas. A few days before her 26th birthday she will marry Roman Polanski but she is killed the following summer in the Manson murders
1949 Comic actor John Belushi is born in Chicago. SNL and Animal House make him a huge star but he doesn't live to enjoy it, dying at only 33
1961 Actress Nastassja Kinski is born in Berlin. Later she'll be a much obsessed over screen beauty (Tess, Cat People, Paris Texas)
1979 At the 33rd annual Golden Globes One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest wins basically everything. A trick it will repeat at the BAFTAs and the Oscars
(Kathleen Turner wasn't at the Globes the year of Prizzi's Honor so I included her speech from the year before)
1984 Apple unveils the revolutionary Macintosh computer with a legendary and very expensive commercial "1984" directed by Ridley Scott
1986 At the 43rd annual Golden Globes the big winner is Prizzi's Honor (1985) starring Kathleen Turner and Jack Nicholson which takes Picture, Director , Actor and Actress. Out of Africa is the winner in Drama
1989 Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida. He's been played by actors such as James Marsters, Cary Elwes, Mark Harmon in various tv shows and tv movies
1999 at the 56th annual Golden Globes, it's Saving Private Ryan (Drama) and Shakespeare in Love (Comedy) as the big winners. They'll later square off at the Oscars to very famous results
2014 I Frankenstein is released but even scarred stitches can't uglify Aaron Eckhart. That movie is insane. Have you seen it?
2017 Oscar nominations are announced. Are you ready?
Reader Comments (22)
One Flew over the Cuckoo Nest is a 1975 released, so it shld b the 1976 GG, not 1979 rite?
The clip o Kathleen Turner winning the GG is for Romancing the Stone a year earlier before she repeats her win for Prizzi's Honor
Looks like Hugh Grant got snubbed and Shannon took his spot
Add Amy Adams to the snub list - Negga instead.
Adams out, Negga in!!!!!!!!!!
It was kind of foreshadowed by the mid-show trailer where they featured Loving despite it not receiving any other nomination...
My hunch about Amy Adams was right. Happy for Negga. That was a tough category.
Most gag-inducing moment was easily Mel Gibson. What. The. Hell. Gross.
Meryl Streep!!!
What kind of mess was that whole announcment system?
Go back to the traditional way!
Anyway, so happy for Negga but so sad for Adams. Meryl Streep will never get a 4th if she keeps receiving rather undeserved noms...
Disappointed Bening missed but the SAG snub was telling.
Huppert was the first nominee in the category!
The oscar website has Amy Adams in BA not Negga
I guess I have to watch Hacksaw Ridge now :(
Meryl is so "overrated" haha ;-) Trump is probably furious!! lol
Yuck to Streep over Bening. Ridiculous. After 20th Century Women made it for screenplay, I thought she might still have a chance.
Oscar did not love Nocturnal Animals the way BAFTA did wow
Oh they just removed the complete list
So sad for Amy Adams. Dear Academy: please rewatch the first ten minutes of Arrival and explain to me how Adams is not nominated. Negga was good in Loving but come on. This is now Emma Stone's win in a walk.
I will never ever forgive the academy for snubbing amy ...God I thought she could finally win this year...those idiots
LSS, I missed both supporting and lead actor announcements so I checked the website... And they were announcing only four nominees in supporting and SIX in leading including Tom Hanks! I was happy thinking there was some kind of tie...
Also sad for Bening. She could have won as well. I really like Emma Stone but it feels too early in her career for this. Oh and I HATED the nomination announcement format.
Sad for Annette, although I have not seen 20the Century Women yet.
And I am furious about Amy Adams snub. Arrival is her best performance ever. This is ridiculous.
The Academy is doing Adams a favor by snubbing her if she's not in it to win it. There needs to be consensus around a performance as win worthy not just acceptable enough for inclusion with the final five.
Edith Wharton, Michel Serrault ... why did the academy have to ruin this blessed day by snubbing Adams and giving nods to Gibson and Garfield?
Don't do it, Rami!