AWFJ 2022 EDA Awards winners announced
The Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and Women Talking tie for the most awards, at four apiece.
AMPAS
Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts 2019 (91st Academy Awards) review
My pick: Vincent Lambe’s controversial and profoundly harrowing “Detainment,” a dramatization of the real-life police interrogations of the 10-year-old boys who killed a toddler in England in 1993.
2018 Webby Award winners (which I help pick)
A brief rundown of some of the film- and TV-related winners…
curated: how the new members of the Academy are changing the Oscars
Old fogies, move aside.
Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts 2018 (90th Academy Awards) review
My pick: I suspect that this year’s winner will be “Garden Party,” a spectacular debut from new French animation studio Illogic that I am sure we will be seeing a lot more stunning work from.
The Salesman movie review: marriage, Iranian style
This delicately realized portrait of an intellectual Tehran couple could easily be taking place in New York, London, or Tokyo. The empathy machine strikes again.
from Facebook: the new AMPAS members are only a small step in the right direction
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from Facebook: what does the Academy value in a black performance?
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from Facebook: some Academy members didn’t even watch Straight Outta Compton
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from Facebook: AMPAS makes proactive changes to diversify
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