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?