How do you win an Academy Award?
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Even after recent dramas – #OscarsSoWhite controversies and the fiasco when
La La Land was wrongly named best picture – an Academy Award remains the ultimate prize in the movie industry.
It’s a validation of excellence that comes with more than 90 years of history, celebrity and glamour – as emotional as winning an Olympic gold medal for everyone from famous directors and actors to unknown visual effects technicians, make-up artists and the creators of animated shorts.
Part of the cachet is mixing with the movie elite at a ceremony in Los Angeles every February or March (moved to April this year because of the pandemic). But Oscars are also famously hard to win. Some of the world’s greatest filmmakers – Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Howard Hawks, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa – have never won best director. A
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Oscars 2021: In Record Year, 70 Women Nominated Including 2 For Best Director Oscars 2021: In Record Year, 70 Women Nominated Including 2 For Best Director
Mank, David Fincher s black-and-white ode to
Citizen Kane, comfortably led this year s Oscars nominations with 10 nods including for best picture and best director
Oscars 2021: A still from the film
Mank. (Image courtesy: mank )
Highlights
Zhao is the first woman of color ever nominated as director
Director Emerald Fennell also got nominated for Promising Young Woman
Los Angeles:
Mank, David Fincher s black-and-white ode to
Citizen Kane, comfortably led this year s Oscars nominations Monday with 10 nods including for best picture and best director, as female filmmakers smashed Academy records. The Netflix reimagining of Hollywood s Golden Age was far ahead of the competition following the live-streamed announcement, which saw six films receive six nominations apiece including US road movie