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>> Nicole Sperling and Brooks Barnes, The New York Times Published: 27 Apr 2021 02:17 PM BdST Updated: 27 Apr 2021 02:17 PM BdST BlacKkKlansman” director Spike Lee, left, celebrates with presenter Samuel L Jackson after Lee won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay, in Los Angeles, Feb 24, 2019. The New York Times In a break with tradition, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided to end its Oscars ceremony Sunday with the prize for best actor instead of the one for best picture. "); } It was easy to understand why. The late Chadwick Boseman, nominated for his visceral perf...

Oscars and watch Two Distant Strangers.” “When we started the journey to make this film, I knew it would be a difficult film for people to watch, difficult for people to politically engage. For it to have done what it’s done and for us to be here holding these ‑‑ for a movie as potent, and serious as our film is, from the Academy ‑‑ it’s unbelievable. It’s amazing to think we could be standing here today, holding Oscars for a film about police brutality –That’s incredible!” – Trayvon Free Click here to go backstage! Oscar® nominee Travon Free arrives on the red car...

Todd Wawrychuk/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images The writer-director became the first Black winner in the best live-action short category when his 'Two Distant Strangers' film collected the Academy Award on Sunday night. Writer-director Travon Free has signed a first-look producing deal with Endeavor Content after, along with co-director Martin Desmond Roe, winning the Oscar for best live-action short for “Over the last year, I’ve developed some great creative relationships with some wonderful people at Endeavor Content, who I’ve found to be as committed as I am to making art that is not onl...

Clinton native Mickey Meyer had a bit of scheduling conflict Sunday. Meyer, president of California-based Group Nine Studios, needed to coach his son’s Little League baseball game at 4 p.m. The Academy Award broadcast started at 5 p.m. on the West Coast.  A film Meyer served as an executive producer on, “Two Distant Strangers,” was nominated for an Oscar. Meyer found he would have time for both the game and award show, as the film’s category — live action short film — wouldn’t be awarded until the second half of the show. At the conclusion of the game, Meyer rushed home to a fa...

Free’s short film won the Oscar on Sunday night Brian Welk | April 27, 2021 @ 8:07 AM Getty Images Travon Free, the director of this year’s Oscar winner for Best Live Action Short “Two Distant Strangers,” has signed a first look producing deal with Endeavor Content. Free directed “Two Distant Strangers” along with Martin Desmond Roe, and the film that was acquired by Netflix tells the story of a Black man trying to get home to his dog who is stopped by police and killed, only to find himself caught in a “Groundhog Day”-style infinite time loop in which he relives the morning ...