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How international films question and challenge North American perspectives
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Different cultures offer different approaches to life’s many questions. The Oscars’ international entries, including those that weren’t nominated, explore how human fundamentals—love and joy—take…
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I’m kind of over the Oscars this year
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As a Film Studies student here at Laurier, there’s always a lot of buzz around the announcement of the Oscar nominations. With 2024’s nominations…
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Representation at the Oscars: The bar is on the floor
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It’s been almost a century since the Oscars began. On Mar. 13, they hosted their 95th annual award ceremony, and nobody has been able…
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Scores and snubs of the 2023 Oscars nominations
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With 2022 having come to a close, the Grammys and Oscars have finally released their nominations, sparking the expected heated debates and conversations. As…
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This year’s Oscars proved more memorable than the last
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The second least watched Oscars ceremony was held this past weekend. On the evening of March 27, Hollywood’s most esteemed stars gathered at the…
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Adam Sandler’s “Hubie Halloween”: Revenge for his Oscar snub
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A month before last year’s Oscar nominations were released, Adam Sandler joked on The Howard Stern Show that if the Academy snubbed him for…
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Richard E. Grant’s enthusiasm for his Oscar nomination is refreshing
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Every awards season, there’s a “darling.” They’re at the top of everyone’s winner list, everyone talks about them and they’re all over social media.…
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No host? No problem: the 2019 Oscars did just fine on its own
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The ninety-first Academy Awards aired this Sunday and even though the show garnered controversy before it even aired this year, for the first time…
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Kevin Hart stepped down from hosting the Oscars after his offensive tweets were dug up
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The entertainment industry has consistently been a place where scandals and controversy thrive: perhaps it is due to the fame going to people’s…
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Can Taylor Swift’s “Delicate” music video be considered plagiarism?
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2016 saw unorthodox director Spike Jonze return to filmmaking since his Oscar-winning Her back in 2013 with a perfume ad giddily extolling primal free-spirited…
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