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Megyn Kelly on Monday mocked the Oscars for being too woke for audiences  The former NBC host turned podcaster let rip as ratings for Sundays ceremony dipped to an all-time low of 9.85 million viewers  It marks a 58 per cent drop compared to last years already record-low 23.64 million viewers  The huge drop continues an overall multi-year downward trend for the Academy Awards, which were seen by more than 43 million people in 2014  The Grammys, Golden Globes and SAG Awards all experienced...

April 27, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET An image from “The Present,” the Oscar-nominated short film by the Palestinian filmmaker Farah Nablusi.Credit...ShortsTV By John Brennan Mr. Brennan was the director of the C.I.A. from 2013 to 2017. On a recent evening I watched “The Present,” a short film by Farah Nablusi, a Palestinian filmmaker, which was nominated for an Academy Award for live-action short film (the winner in the category was “Two Distant Strangers). Ms. Nablusi’s 25-minute film is a...

April 27, 2021 Two Hoosiers from 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 th...

Share The Australian actor also acknowledged the firsts achieved in one of the most progressive Oscars ever. There were just so many great moments at the Oscars last night, [including] Chloe [Zhao] the first woman of colour [to win the Best Director Oscar]. Jackman hosted the Academy Awards in 2009. Hero: The X-Men actor, 52, took to social media on Tuesday to directly address Perry, 51 Powerful speech: Perry (pictured) on Monday urged Oscars viewers to start meeting in the middle and to refuse...

"Oh, Mr. Brad Pitt, finally. Nice to meet you. Where were you while we were filming in Tulsa?" Youn breathlessly started her acceptance speech.  Her relatable reaction — I mean, what woman wouldnt get a little woozy meeting Pitt for the first time? — led off a hilarious speech. But Youn didnt stop charming people once she exited stage right: She continued into the press room by posing photos with Pitt and then gamely fielding some questions about her experience, including one journalist wh...

>> Nicole Sperling and Brooks Barnes, The New York Times Published: 27 Apr 2021 02:17 PM BdST Updated: 27 Apr 2021 02:17 PM BdST BlacKkKlansman” director Spike Lee, left, celebrates with presenter Samuel L Jackson after Lee won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay, in Los Angeles, Feb 24, 2019. The New York Times In a break with tradition, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided to end its Oscars ceremony Sunday with the prize for best actor instead of the one for best pictu...

Oscars and watch Two Distant Strangers.” “When we started the journey to make this film, I knew it would be a difficult film for people to watch, difficult for people to politically engage. For it to have done what it’s done and for us to be here holding these ‑‑ for a movie as potent, and serious as our film is, from the Academy ‑‑ it’s unbelievable. It’s amazing to think we could be standing here today, holding Oscars for a film about police brutality –That’s incredible...

Todd Wawrychuk/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images The writer-director became the first Black winner in the best live-action short category when his Two Distant Strangers film collected the Academy Award on Sunday night. Writer-director Travon Free has signed a first-look producing deal with Endeavor Content after, along with co-director Martin Desmond Roe, winning the Oscar for best live-action short for “Over the last year, I’ve developed some great creative relationships with some wonderful peo...

Clinton native Mickey Meyer had a bit of scheduling conflict Sunday. Meyer, president of California-based Group Nine Studios, needed to coach his son’s Little League baseball game at 4 p.m. The Academy Award broadcast started at 5 p.m. on the West Coast.  A film Meyer served as an executive producer on, “Two Distant Strangers,” was nominated for an Oscar. Meyer found he would have time for both the game and award show, as the film’s category — live action short film — wouldn’t be...

Free’s short film won the Oscar on Sunday night Brian Welk | April 27, 2021 @ 8:07 AM Getty Images Travon Free, the director of this year’s Oscar winner for Best Live Action Short “Two Distant Strangers,” has signed a first look producing deal with Endeavor Content. Free directed “Two Distant Strangers” along with Martin Desmond Roe, and the film that was acquired by Netflix tells the story of a Black man trying to get home to his dog who is stopped by police and killed, only to fi...