Nominees Viola Davis and Riz Ahmed join all-star lineup of Oscar presenters
By rolling | April 23, 2021 |
Viola Davis (Photo credit: Bang Media)
Viola Davis and Riz Ahmed have been added to the presenting ensemble at the Oscars.
The pair join a number of A-listers set to present at the ceremony this Sunday, April 25, 2021, with stars such as Brad Pitt, Halle Berry and Joaquin Phoenix also involved in the process.
Both stars are nominated for Academy Awards with Davis up for Best Actress for her role in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and Ahmed in contention for Best Actor for his performance in “Sound of Metal.”
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Which Oscar winners are obsessively re-watched and which have been wiped clean from memory?
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Which Oscar winners are obsessively re-watched and which have been wiped clean from memory?
Over the years, some 91 films have won the best picture Oscar, and come April 25/26 depending on which part of the world you’re in a new winner will be crowned. This isn’t going to be a discussion conjecturing who will lift the statuette this year. Instead, let’s consider which ones we remember.
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Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time, 2020. Courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment.
Lili Horvát’s
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time was Hungary’s entry to the Oscars’ Best International Feature Film category, but unfortunately it wasn’t selected. Horvát’s second feature (named after a 1972 underground experimental theater piece) is a sophisticated puzzle of a film, filled with questions concerning the nature of desire, memory, and the human brain. Opening with a quote from Sylvia Plath’s poem “Mad Girl’s Love Song,” the film follows Márta, a highly successful Hungarian brain surgeon living in New Jersey, who returns to Budapest after an unexpected affair with János, a fellow brain surgeon, at a conference. Filled with anticipation, she waits for him at their designated meeting spot, only to be stood up. Worse yet, when she tries to confront him, he claims to have no idea who she is. Did Márta imagine the whole affair