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Let’s face it: Awards shows have largely failed to capture our attention since the pandemic. After the Emmys, the Grammys, and the Golden Globes brought in dismally low ratings over the last few months, the granddaddy of Hollywood kudos is about to see if it can usher in the great reset that the entertainment industry is looking for.
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The 93rd Academy Awards will take place in two locations this weekend the Dolby Theater and Union Station in Los Angeles. Although the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has reportedly relaxed its ban on Zoom appearances, the Oscars ceremony which will once again have no host is expected to go out of its way to avoid the trappings of its low-rated pandemic-era counterparts, which is to say that it will try as much as possible to replicate the look and feel of a
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Stars To Reunite At Unique Oscars As Nomadland Seeks Big Prize By Andrew MARSZAL
04/25/21 AT 11:29 AM
It is guaranteed to be an Oscars like no other: broadcast live from a train station, honoring films few saw in movie theaters, and reuniting Hollywood s A-listers for the first time in more than a year due to Covid-19.
Chloe Zhao, whose drama Nomadland about transient Americans roaming the West in vans is tipped to win best picture and in the running for five more Oscars, is among the nominees set to emerge from long isolation on Sunday to take part in Tinseltown s biggest night.
This Mexican actor claimed he modelled for the famed Oscar statuette
The Mexican film star and director Emilio Fernández, known for his larger than life personality, long claimed he had modelled for the gilded statuette. But librarians at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences say it s based on an abstract sketch.
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Mexican film actor and director Emilio Fernández pictured in a scene from the 1935 film Janitzio, directed by Carlos Navarro.(Luis Márquez Romay/Fundación Televisa Archivo División Fílmica)
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