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AFFotD Oscars For Deserving American Actors (Part 1)

“And the Oscar goes to…” ~William Shakespeare, probably In 1929, Hollywood held the first, “Hey guys, aren’t we awesome?” party that eventually went on to be known as the “Academy Awards.”  Ever since...

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AFFotD Oscars For Deserving American Actors (Part 2)

“How have I NOT won an Oscar?” ~Harrison Ford As we established in yesterday’s fun fact, the Oscars are not always fair.  Sometimes they can be cruel, political film awards that completely ignore some...

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America’s Greatest Prison Breaks (Part 1)

“Houdini!” ~Ricky Bobby America has always had a fascination with escapes.  We make movies about escaping POW camps, our favorite game during Recess was Jail Break, and there was that one show on Fox...

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Re-Awarding the Academy Award for Best Picture (1970-1974)

“And the winner is…Crash? Wait that can’t be r…” ~What Jack Nicholson Should Have Said in 2006 Like it or not, the Academy Awards carry a lot of influence in terms of what movies we deem to be worth...

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Re-Awarding the Academy Award for Best Picture (1975-1979)

“You’re going to really regret giving me this Academy Award, AFFotD.” ~George Lucas   Earlier this week we decided on a whim (read as, while drinking whiskey in the middle of the day) that we would go...

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Re-Awarding the Academy Award for Best Picture (1980-1984)

“And the Oscar goes to…white men running on a beach in slow-motion? Oh sorry, we mean, uh, Chariots of Fire! Wait, really, they chose that?” ~Loretta Young in 1982 This week we have shared with you two...

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Re-Awarding the Academy Award for Best Picture (1985-1989)

“Oh God, they’re going to give an Academy Award to Rocky IV, aren’t they?” ~You, the Reader We are now three articles and over 12,000 words into our ambitious attempt to re-award every single Academy...

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Re-Awarding the Academy Award for Best Picture (1990-1994)

“You son of a bitch you can’t just give my Oscar to Die Hard and move on with your weird list thing like nothing even happened.” ~Mark Johnson, the Producer of Rain Man It’s been a long road on this...

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Re-Awarding the Academy Award for Best Picture (1995-1999)

“Don’t you take away my Academy Award you dirty goddamn j…” ~Mel Gibson Right Before We Hung Up the Phone On Him We feel like we don’t really need to rehash this another time. The Oscars are sometimes...

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Re-Awarding the Academy Award for Best Picture (2000-2004)

“Hahaha wait, we won Best Picture? That can’t be right. Are you guys Moonlighting us here or?” ~Chicago   It’s been a long journey for all of us, but we’re nearly finished. Started on a whim, our...

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Re-Awarding the Academy Award for Best Picture (2005-2009)

“Wait, we’re done? Like, I can go home now? I don’t have to keep watching hundreds upon hundreds of movies?” ~Our Film Screener. He’s So, So Tired. Well, it’s been a long, weird ride. We’ve gone...

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8 Actors With Academy Award Nominations You Completely Forgot About

“Ha, shit, wait, I’ve been nominated for more Oscars than Burt Reynolds? Haha, what?” ~Nicolas Cage We talk about the Academy Awards a lot around these parts (some might say to a “dangerous to our...

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How Many Academy Award Nominations SHOULD Tom Hanks Have?

“I have more Academy Award nominations than Tom Hanks? That…that can’t be right.” ~Bradley Cooper As a nation, Americans don’t agree on much. We know that pizza is good, traffic jams are bad, and Jack...

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AFFotD’s 2023 Oscar Guide – Best Picture

As you no doubt know, the staff here at America Fun Fact of the Day are certified sickos. We also are weirdly obsessed with the Academy Awards. It’s an illness we can’t explain. As a result, our...

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AFFotD’s 2023 Oscar Guide – Best Actor/Supporting Actor

“Shit, we forgot to put quotes on the last one of these. WAIT THE OSCARS ARE TODAY?” ~AFFotD Editor-in-Chief, Johnny Roosevelt We posted our rundown of all the Best Picture nominees to illustrate that...

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AFFotD’s 2023 Oscar Guide – Best Actress/Supporting Actress

Hey, hi, how are you. We’ve meticulously written a rundown of all the Best Picture of the Oscar nominations, which as we start writing this will be airing in two and a half hours, and we spent the...

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