April 23, 2021
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The 93rd Academy Awards Ceremony, also known as the Oscars is nearing.
Annually, the Academy Awards celebrate the best filmmaking artistry and skill by awarding Oscars to winning films leading them to become cultural icons and beloved classics in their own right.
As a tribute to this year’s Oscars, here’s a list of Oscar-winning feature films you can stream on Disney+ now, including those from the Best Picture, Original/Adapted Screenplay, Visual Effects and Cinematography categories.
Here are titles that need to be part of your next must-watch list.
1. Nomadland (2020)
The 2020 film tells a story of a woman in her sixties who lost everything she had due to the Great Recession. With nothing to her name, she embarks on a journey through the American West living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
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Nomadland Blu-ray Review
Author Jessica Bruder first documented the nomadic lifestyle in her Harper’s Magazine article, “The End of Retirement,” and soon expanded upon that with her book, “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century.” Much like the nonfiction book that the film is based on,
Nomadland goes on a journey alongside nomads who were tossed aside during the financial meltdown of 2008. These people either couldn’t find their way back or didn’t want to, so instead, they became nomads. The film is an intriguing hybrid of documentary and narrative fiction. Frances McDormand’s Fern is the narrative thread that intertwines with the real-life lifestyle of nomadic living. That’s essentially what the film is. It’s not about an existential crisis or a political statement, it’s a poetic reflection about the resilience of humanity. That’s the powerful message of what this film is trying to convey.
For nearly 125 years, Black cinema has served as an avenue for creative expression, cultural affirmation, and a reimagining of what freedom really means in America. Yet, the separate-and-unequal attention Hollywood pays to Black cinema has left most moviegoers largely unaware of its rich tradition. New Canaan Library welcomes Professor Artel Great, who will present an in-depth discussion of Black cinema as part of the Library’s Movements in Cinema series. The live webinar and will be held on Thursday, April 22 at 7 PM EST. Zoom sign in information will be provided upon registration at newcanaanlibrary.org.
Artel Great, PhD, will discuss the diverse history and “key movements” of Black Cinema, such as “uplift films” of the early 1900s, the Black star movement in Hollywood, the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, Blaxploitation, the L.A. Rebellion, the ‘90s Black New Wave, and beyond. Additionally, he will cover how Black cinema functions aesthetically, how it is meaningful