2021-03-16 03:38:28 GMT2021-03-16 11:38:28(Beijing Time) Sina English
Chinese youth drama film Better Days has made the list of nominations for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, according to the list of Academy Award nominees released by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) on Monday.
Selected as the entry of Hong Kong, China, the film will compete for the top prize in the category with Another Round (Denmark), Collective (Romania), The Man Who Sold His Skin (Tunisia) and Quo Vadis, Aida? (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Starring actress Zhou Dongyu and the boy band TFBoys member Jackson Yee, the film by Hong Kong director Derek Kwok-Cheung Tsang puts the spotlight on school bullying. In the film, Chinese girl Chen Nian, who is single-mindedly preparing for the national college entrance exam, becomes a target of relentless bullying and then forms a strong friendship with small-time criminal Xiao Bei.
On Monday, Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas announced the upcoming nominations of the 93rd Academy Awards. The upcoming awards ceremony, set for April 25 at both the Dolby Theater and Union Station in Los Angeles, will honor films released in both 2020 and the first two months of 2021. This year’s nominations marked a.
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The glamorous train station has long been a favorite setting for filmmakers, but this will be the first time Hollywood s biggest night of the year will take place at Union Station along with Dolby Theatre. ( Richard Harbaugh - Handout/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA Like an aging star making a comeback, LA s historic Union Station will play center stage at this year s Oscar ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Monday.
The glamorous train station has long been a favorite setting for filmmakers, but this will be the first time Hollywood s biggest night of the year will take place at Union Station along with Dolby Theatre. Audiences will recognize Union Station, which was used in an array of films including Blade Runner, The Dark Knight Rises, The Hustler, The Italian Job, Pearl Harbor, Bugsy and 1973 s The Way We Were and countless more since it was built in 1939.
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In the past several years, the slates of Oscar nominees have varied from
less white as in 2017 when “Moonlight” was named best picture to overwhelmingly white and male last year. But the nominations announced Monday are so dramatically and historically diverse that in some categories people of color outnumber white contenders.
In the directing category, the change is breathtaking. The list includes two women Emerald Fennell and Chloé Zhao, the first woman of color (she is from Beijing) to be nominated for directing and Lee Isaac Chung, the first Asian American to receive a directing nod. It’s also the first time that the directing field has