Awards
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How the Academy’s New Class Impacts Asian Representation in Hollywood
Two producers weigh in on recent Oscar events, new AMPAS members, and the future of diversity & inclusion in Hollywood.Some of the new Academy members…
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The Academy is Working on Diversity, One Branch at a Time
The Directors and Actors guilds saw the biggest influx of interesting new members. Yesterday, the Academy of Motion Arts and Picture Sciences announced their 2016 class…
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Why Are Critics’ Favorites and Awards Favorites So Rarely The Same Movies?
Exploring the divide between festival audiences and festival critics and festival judges: a dangerous threeway. With Cannes now concluded for another year, a variation on…
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#OscarsSoWhite Isn’t Other People’s Problems
This past weekend, on a long drive from New York to Massachusetts, I popped on the most recent episode of the Broken Projector podcast and…
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PSA: Best Picture Nominees Less Critically Acclaimed Than Furious 7
When Vin Diesel said that Furious 7 would win Best Picture at the Oscars, you could hear the collectively stifled laugh from people without imaginations.…
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The Oscars Only Need Five Best Picture Nominees
Flickr Although this year’s Acadamy Aawrds might be but a distant, dim, sparkling, drunk memory – they happened less than two weeks ago, forever in…
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3 Things That Would Shake Up the Predictable, Broken Oscars
Art by Alexander Huls Two things happened last night at the Oscars which seem contradictory. First, the establishment named a challenging, risky, often experimental film…
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12 Important Takeaways From This Morning’s Oscar Nominations
Flickr If you happen to live anywhere near Los Angeles, the collective buzz and groan you probably heard this morning was undoubtedly the sound of…
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The 2015 Oscar Nominees
Fox Searchlight Has it been a good year for movies? That’s inevitably the question that crops up around the time we start kissing people at midnight,…