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Chloe Zhaos historic Academy Awards win all but ignored in China By Dong Xing and wires © Provided by ABC NEWS The Oscars are usually a big deal in China, but not this year. (Supplied: Disney) The reaction to Chinese director Chloe Zhaos historic night at the Academy Awards has been surprisingly muted back home amid controversy over comments she made nearly a decade ago. Zhao became the first Asian woman to win a Best Director nod for her film Nomadland, which also won Best P...

“I still truly believe them today,” Zhou said. “Even though sometimes they might seem like the opposite is true, but I have always found goodness in the people I met everywhere I went in the world.” Zhou’s message and her decision to speak in Mandarin during her speech were widely welcomed, particularly amid high rates of anti-Asian racism in the west. The apparent censorship of news about Zhao’s Oscars win followed a nationalistic furore against her last month. In...

China is blocking this year's broadcast of the Academy Awards after the directors of two Oscar-nominated films were critical of the Chinese government. CNN's John Avlon talks to one of the directors, Anders Hammer, whose documentary spotlighted protesters in Hong Kong.

The 2019 Hong Kong film protests at the Oscars, China | Art and Culture News Growing up in Hong Kong, he imagined that Joey Siu could become a secondary school teacher, but two years ago, as pro-democracy protesters filled the streets of a Chinese-dominated city, he saw himself taking a different path. Siu joined the rallies as a student activist, but quickly took on a more prominent role in the movement, claiming international support and speaking regularly to the media. Then, in June last yea...

Growing up in Hong Kong, Joey Siu imagined she might become a secondary school teacher, but two years ago, as pro-democracy protesters filled the streets of the Chinese-ruled city, she found herself taking a different path. Siu joined the rallies as a student activist, but quickly took on a more prominent role in the movement, advocating for international help and speaking regularly to the media. Then, in June last year, China imposed the National Security Law – broadly worded legislation it ...

Oscars 2021: Best Documentary Short Film Nominees Reviewed Shaun Munro reviews 2021’s Oscar-nominated documentary short films… The final instalment of our three-part series delving into this year’s short-form Oscar nominees tackles the Best Documentary Short field. Of the three short film categories, this collective is by far the most pervasively upsetting and difficult-to-watch, but their journalistic, humanistic value absolutely speaks for itself. Several of the shorts are content-rich ...

One of this year's Oscar nominees, "Do Not Split," is a documentary about the 2019-2020 Hong Kong protests. But residents of Hong Kong who participated in

Where to stream the 2021 Oscar contenders Guy Lodge © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Netflix/AP After the most arduously stretched-out awards season in history, the long-delayed Academy Awards will finally be handed out this weekend – and with them will come the annual commentary over their relevance (or not) to the filmgoing (or not) public. Oscar producers are bracing themselves for all-time low TV ratings, we are told, due to limited audience awareness of this year...

"This is actually a fight between all the freedom lovers across the globe against any tyrannies across the globe."

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