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
Actress
Rosie Perez has film credits dating as far back as 1989, according to her IMDB profile. She is still very much active in the industry, with her latest venture being the 2020 television series “The Flight Attendant.” So, it came as a surprise when, during a recent sit-down, the Brooklyn native told Variety that she hadn’t been invited to the Academy Awards in over 25 years.
“Not even to sit in the audience, not to present, nothing and I’m a member. I love the Academy Awards. I cheer on my peers, but it hurts,” the 56-year-old expressed. “It’s like when your home team doesn’t ask you to come back into the stadium after you got up to bat and hit the home run.”
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Anthony Hopkins plays a man with dementia who refuses help from his daughter (Olivia Coleman) as his reality seems to change around him in this drama from director Florian Zeller. Hopkins and Coleman have won several acting awards this season and Zeller has been honored for her screenplay with Christopher Hampton.
Release date: Feb. 26
Where to see it: Video on-demand
“Judas and the Black Messiah”
(R for violence and pervasive language; 2:06)
Bill O Neal (LaKeith Stanfield) infiltrates the Black Panther Party as chairman Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya) ascends in this historical drama from director Shaka King. Kaluuya has won several awards for his role.
World Renowned Artist Sir Daniel Winn Partners with Asian World Film Festival to Design Statuettes for 2021 Awards Ceremony
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Sir Daniel Winn to Create New Statuettes for AWFF’s Snow Leopard Awards, Humanitarian Award, and Red Cross Award BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (PRWEB) April 15, 2021 Sir Daniel Winn, world renowned artist, curator, and owner of the prestigious Winn Slavin Fine Art Gallery in Beverly Hills, has been commissioned by the Asian World Film Festival (AWFF) to design the new statuettes for their Snow Leopard Awards, Humanitarian Award, and Red Cross Award. In addition to sculpting the designs, Sir Daniel Winn will also be presenting the Humanitarian Award to the winner at this year’s awards ceremony.