Oscars
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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 shape in the eyes of non-North American artists. Whether they’re subjectively good or bad is irrelevant – either way, they’ll expand your capacity to appreciate perspective and, I hope, offer new…
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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 recently released, there’s the usual uproar as the public complains about the snubs. I know I, along with I assume many others, was furious to learn that Jack Black’s Peaches from…
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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 to shut up about it since. In some regard, this is rightfully so. The film Everything Everywhere All at Once picked up seven awards that night, with three of them won…
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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 COVID restrictions loosened, delayed films such as Top Gun: Maverick and others marked the year as one of tight competition for the Oscars. The nominations contain a wide variety of films…
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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 Dolby Theater in Los Angeles to honour this year’s greatest films. Last year’s Oscars earned the title of the worst ceremony in Academy history, viewership wise. The low viewership of 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 his role in The Safdie Brothers’ film Uncut Gems he would make a movie “that is so bad on purpose.” Well, that’s exactly what happened. Although Sandler was well recognized at…
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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. This year’s darling, however, is not who we expected. Richard E. Grant is a 61 year old British actor, who’s been active for 39 years. I used to mention his name…
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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 in years, it felt more refined and less drawn out than ever before. With Kevin Hart let go from his original position as host, due to previously-posted homophobic tweets and debate…
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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 heads, and thinking that any behaviour is acceptable, or perhaps it’s just the way these people are. Throughout 2018, we saw the #MeToo movement make its way across Hollywood, and become…
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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 silliness. A tour de force of spatial direction and committed performance, the video for Kenzo World saw actress/model Margaret Qualley bursting with uncontrollable energy as she contorts her body every which…
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