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All Stories for Academy Awards 2021
Oscars 2021: Regina King reacts to Derek Chauvin's guilty verdict, Black American population's hardships in opening address
• 4 years agoThe One Night in Miami director was featured at the start of the 2021 Oscars in an opening produced by director Steven Soderberg.
Oscars 2021: Soul wins Best Animated Feature, giving Pixar its 11th Academy Award in 20 years
• 4 years agoDirected by Pete Docter and featuring the voices of Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey, Soul follows a middle school band teacher who dreams of being a jazz musician and tries to escape the afterlife to do it.
Oscars 2021: Anthony Hopkins wins his second Best Actor award after nearly 30 years for The Father
• 4 years agoThe 80-year-old Hopkins won the Oscar for his role as a man who battles with dementia opposite Olivia Colman in the film directed by Florian Zeller.
Oscars 2021: My Octopus Teacher, story of a female mollusk and her human companion, wins Best Documentary
• 4 years agoTen years in the making, My Octopus Teacher began as a personal video project by South African filmmaker Craig Foster to rekindle his connection with nature by observing an inquisitive female mollusk while free-diving near Cape Town.
Oscars 2021: Minari's Youn Yuh-jung becomes first Korean performer to win Best Supporting Actress
• 4 years agoYoun plays Soon-ja, a card-playing grandmom with a knack for swearing, who’s moved from Korea to join her daughter and stepson in his seemingly quixotic quest to trade dispiriting work in California for farming in Arkansas.
Oscars 2021 predictions: Who will take home top honours at 93rd Academy Awards?
• 4 years agoWill Chole Zaho's Nomadland continue its dominance on awards season success, or find its charming voyage cut short? Here is the final list of predictions for all 23 categories.
Unpacking the Oscar gift bags and the tradition that has endured despite the pandemic
• 4 years agoDistinctive Assets, an entertainment marketing firm, is offering a gift bag worth about $205,000 to the 25 acting and directing nominees. Another player in Hollywood’s giveaway economy, GBK Brand Bar, is offering freebies worth $60,000.
Oscars 2021: Disney to reportedly promote award show through special episodes of American Idol, The Simpsons
Trendingdesk • 4 years agoTo promote Oscars 2021, American Idol contestants will reportedly perform Oscar-nominated songs, while judge Lionel Richie will open the episode with his Oscar-winning song ‘Say You, Say Me'
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: On the unusual, gonzo art of scriptwriting in an ever evolving scenario
• 4 years agoThere are plenty of scenes scripted straightforwardly, but screenwriting for Borat also means finding ways to manipulate the real world, guessing how people will respond, and shoehorning those guerilla encounters into a coherent narrative.
Oscars 2021: Romanian documentary Collective studies the multifarious factors at play in shaping a democracy
Srikanth Srinivasan • 4 years agoCollective characterises democracy as a long and slow process of negotiation and compromise involving the incessant interplay of individual will, institutional inertia, and societal moods.