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Oscars 10
The Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Short Films
Every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards Oscars in three categories dedicated to short films. Every year, viewers at home use the giving of these awards as a good time to get a snack or go to the bathroom. It’s ironic that people don’...
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The Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films
Every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards Oscars in three categories dedicated to short films. Every year, viewers at home use the giving of these awards as a good time to get a snack or go to the bathroom. It’s ironic that people don’...
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The Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films
Every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards Oscars in three categories dedicated to short films. Every year, viewers at home use the giving of these awards as a good time to get a snack or go to the bathroom. It’s ironic that people don’...
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10 Best Picture Nominees That Should Have Won
Star Wars was nominated for Best Picture. Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial and Avatar were all nominated for Best Picture, but failed to hold the statuette. Oscars rarely celebrate the box-office smash or sci-fi adventure film. They represen...
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Opening Acts 1/19/2015
Every day, Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
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1. Foxcatcher Subject Mark Schultz Recants Criticisms: 'I Was...
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Opening Acts 1/16/2015
Every day, Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
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At the Oscars, Best Actress and Best Picture Rarely Coincide ...
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“Force Majeure”
What if you took the premise of the Seinfeld episode “The Fire,” doused it in Scandinavian seriousness (though still with a sense of humor, but of a more wry, subdued flavor), and made it about marriage? That would be an inelegant but accurate descriptor for F...
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“Forrest Gump” Keeps Running Away
Forrest Gump is never sure of what it is or what it wants to be. Directed by Robert Zemeckis from a script by Eric Roth (reshaping Winston Groom’s novel), the film is an ungainly mix of cheap drama, unearned sentimentality, and questionable humor that asks the...
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Why Cate Blanchett’s Female Power Crusade Is Important
During her acceptance speech for Best Actress at Sunday night's 86th Academy Awards, Cate Blanchett took the opportunity not to talk about recent controversies, but instead about the power that women have in the film industry. She lambasted "those of us in the...
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“12 Years A Slave” Big Winner at the 86th Academy Awards
Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity may have won 7 Oscars, but Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave was the big winner Sunday night, taking home awards for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 86th Academy Awards.
Some cynical pundits ...
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