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The Man Who Sold His Skin
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Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania it stars Italian actress Monica Bellucci alongside Syrian Yahya Mahyani and Belgian Koen De Bouw. It s a historic event, a first for Tunisia, said Ben Hania.
The director of the first-ever Tunisian film to be tipped for an Oscar has hailed the historical nomination and urged the North African country s authorities to support homegrown cinema.
Kaouther Ben Hania s film
The Man Who Sold His Skin was put forward for best foreign language film ahead of the 25 April Oscars ceremony in Hollywood. It s a historic event, a first for Tunisia, said Ben Hania via phone from France.
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A look, by the numbers, at notable facts, figures and trivia from the nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards: 11 First-time acting nominees. With the pandemic prompting Hollywood to hold back most of its major motion pictures in 2020, pulling big stars from the competition, newbies became the norm in the four acting categories.…
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LOS ANGELES, March 16 The Oscar nominations yesterday anointed
Mank as this season’s leader, and saved multiple nods for other widely tipped frontrunners such as
Nomadland and
The Trial of the Chicago 7.
But there were plenty of surprises and records among the Academy’s picks, from diversity landmarks to the venue itself.
Here are five takeaways from the Academy Award nominations announcement:
When
Parasite swept the 2020 Academy Awards, few of us thought it would be one of the last big events in the US that year. But as COVID-19 spread, movie theaters shut down, film festivals were cancelled, and blockbusters landed on streaming services. And it’s not over; just look at the Zoom Golden Globes and this weekend’s scaled-down, masked-up Grammys.
In a bid to host a somewhat normal awards ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences pushed this year’s Oscars from Feb. 28 to April 25, and will split the event between two locations in Los Angeles: Union Station and the Dolby Theatre. As Variety reports, though, the only people who can attend are the nominees, their guests, and the presenters. Sorry, Hollywood types, you’ll have to watch from the couch in your sweatpants like the rest of us.