Two Hoosiers Win Oscar Awards
LOS ANGELES–Two Hoosiers who went to the same high school became Oscar winners Sunday night.
Mike Conley, now an NBA player with the Utah Jazz, graduated from Lawrence North High School in 2006. He and fellow NBA player, Kevin Durant, were executive producers of “Two Distant Strangers.” That film won the Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short Film.
Tiara Thomas, a graduate of both Lawrence North and Ball State won an Oscar for Best Original Song for her work on “Fight for You” from the movie “Judas and the Black Messiah”. The award went to songwriters Tiara Thomas, H.E.R., and Dernst Emile II.
What They Say:
In this Oscar-nominated short film, a man trying to go home to his dog gets stuck in a time loop that forces him to relive a deadly run-in with a cop.
The Review:
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Remember that movie “Groundhog Day?” Most of you probably do. It starred Bill Murray as a news anchor who was stuck in a time loop, being forced to relive the same day over, and over, and over, and over…well, you get it. The fact that he was reliving his least favorite day of the year added to the absurdity of the comedy. It was a brilliant stroke of genius that Travon Free (and his co-director Martin Desmond Roe) took the concept and decided to make it about what many people consider a daily Hell themselves: interactions with police officers that end badly. Filming after the murder of George Floyd, the short film follows a graphic novel artist whose day begins pleasantly enough, as he wakes up next to a beautiful woman af
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It was a year with a record number of nonwhite acting nominees, plus two female directing nominees for the first time ever. And that means lots of landmarks could take place on Oscar night.
Here are some of them, on a list that is understandably heavy on “Nomadland” wins:
If Chloé Zhao wins Best Director for “Nomadland,” she’ll become the second woman to win the award, after Kathryn Bigelow for “The Hurt Locker” in 2010. (So would Emerald Fennell, if she wins for “Promising Young Woman.”) Zhao would also become the first Asian woman and the first non-white woman to win the award.
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