Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, has won an Academy Award.
The film was produced by Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment and Facebook-owned VR company Oculus (who also developed
The documentary follows Colette Marin-Catherine, one of the last surviving members of the French Resistance, as she travels to the remains of the slave-labor camp where her brother died during World War II.
It represents the first Academy Award win for a video game industry project, and more specifically Respawn and Oculus. Director Anthony Giacchino said he was inspired to make the film to preserve histories and stories that are at risk of being forgotten.
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(NOTE: This is a repost of an article that originally came out in March 2021)
Come evening of April 25th in Los Angeles (Monday morning Manila time); all will be revealed as the 93rd Academy Awards gets underway. Without argument, this is still the most prestigious of the Film Awards season, and just like most of the other industry awards shows, it’s been pushed back to this later date because of the COVID pandemic.
Would presume that at one time there was the hope that moving to this later date could mean holding the Oscars with a live audience. Unfortunately, it’s not to be. It’s set to be a virtual event, and as of the time of my writing this, no host has been announced – so it may follow the 2020 Oscars and be host-less.
This Villanova grad out of South Jersey is a nominee at this weekend’s Academy Awards Kevin Riordan, The Philadelphia Inquirer
The quiet, at times somber, 25-minute film Colette by South Jersey native Anthony Giacchino, is an account of an elderly Frenchwoman’a pilgrimage to the Nazi concentration camp site in Germany where her brother perished in 1945. The bond that blossoms between Colette Marin-Catherine, now 92, and Lucie Fouble, an aspiring teenage historian who makes the journey with her, unfolds through poignant, potent, and unexpected moments.
“As a documentary filmmaker, you can kind of hope that specific things will happen, but at some point you have to give yourself over to the events that are going to be your story,” Giacchino said from Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife, Pelin, and their children Stella, 11, and Berke, 9.
Oscar-Nominated Short Film ‘A Concerto is a Conversation’ celebrates Local legend Horace Bowers and Bowers & Sons Cleaners
By Lapacazo Sandoval, Contributing Writer
Published April 22, 2021
Horace Bowers shares a laugh with his grandson Kris Bowers inside the family’s dry cleaners
Now, this is a sign of divine alignment. The Oscars and Bowers & Sons Cleaners, the subject of the Oscar-nominated short documentary “A Concerto is a Conversation,” located at 2509 South Central Avenue in Los Angeles, are both celebrating their 93rd year.
“A Concerto is a Conversation” creative team held a press event, last week, and an in conversation with the virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer Kris Bowers, who tracks his family’s lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather Horace from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney Concert Hall.