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Tag: Academy Awards

The Academy Awards

Get to know this year’s collection of Academy Award-nominated documentary films

February 22nd, 2019 Theresa Curry Almuti Media & Culture

Ready for the Oscars? Check out our compilation of trailers for each of the 2018 nominees for Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short Subject.

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Three days ago, HuffPost asked: What would happen if a presenter announced the wrong winner at the Oscars? Now we know…

February 27th, 2017 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture

Talk about foreshadowing. On Friday, the Huffington Post ran an article asking, What would happen if a presenter announced the wrong winner at the Oscars?

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BB-8, R2-D2, C-3PO at the Oscars

These are the droids you’re looking for

February 28th, 2016 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture
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Chris Rock pulls no punches in Academy Awards opening monologue

February 28th, 2016 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture

Hollywood is racist, but it’s not the racist that you’ve grown accustomed too. Hollywood is sorority racist. It’s like, “We like you Rhonda, but you’re

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Joe Biden speaking in New Hampshire

Vice President Joe Biden to participate in 2016 Oscars telecast, White House says

February 27th, 2016 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture

Vice President Joe Biden and Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden will be guests of the Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for tomorrow evening’s

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Director Alejandro González Iñárritu: Let’s fix our broken immigration system

February 22nd, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, Media & Culture

I want to dedicate this award for my fellow Mexicans, the ones who live in Mexico. I pray that we can find and build a

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Lady Gaga takes in Dolby Theatre applause after performing Sound of Music medley

February 22nd, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture

Lady Gaga takes in the applause from every corner of the Dolby Theatre after performing a medley of songs from The Sound of Music. (Photo: Craig Sjodin/ABC, courtesy of the Walt Disney Company. Reproduced under a Creative Commons license.)

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“Selma is Now”: John Legend and Common speak truth to power at Oscars

February 22nd, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics

Selma is now… The struggle for justice is now. The Voting Rights Act that they fought for fifty years ago is being compromised right now

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Academy leaves Joan Rivers and Jan Hooks out of In Memoriam segment

February 22nd, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture

This year’s In Memoriam segment at the Academy Awards, introduced by acclaimed actress Meryl Streep, inexplicably omitted Joan Rivers and Jan Hooks, leaving many Oscar

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Patricia Arquette delivers her memorable Academy Awards acceptance speech

February 22nd, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture

Patricia Arquette delivers her memorable Academy Awards acceptance speech. (Photo: Craig Sjodin/ABC, courtesy of the Walt Disney Company. Reproduced under a Creative Commons license.)

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Patricia Arquette ends acceptance speech with call for wage equality

February 22nd, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, Economic Security, Media & Culture

To every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else’s equal rights. It’s our time

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Oscars 2015: Female directors scarce at Hollywood’s major studios

February 22nd, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture

Oscars 2015: Female directors scarce at Hollywood’s major studios The Los Angeles Times asked why the directing profession is dominated by men. Women directed a

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