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Player Empowerment: Kevin Durant’s court success is reflected in his investments Share this story Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images On Sunday night, Kevin Durant is likely to be otherwise occupied. After hopefully playing an afternoon game — and hopefully winning — he’ll be waiting to see if he can rack up another win in Hollywood. The 32-year-old who already has an MVP, two Finals MVP and Rookie of the Year awards will be waiting to see if he’ll add an Oscar to his trophy case. He, agent/manager Rich Kleinman, and Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley are up for an Oscar for the film they ...

Oscars 2021: Best Live-Action Short Film Nominees Reviewed Shaun Munro reviews 2021’s Oscar-nominated live-action short films… We’re right on the eve of the 93rd Academy Awards, and in an attempt to foreground the typically under-discussed short film categories, this review series tackles each of the three fields – Animated, Live-Action, and Documentary. True to form, this year’s batch of live-action nominees offer hard-hitting depictions of urgent social issues from around the globe, presenting an appealingly diverse array of subjects in the process. Despite the potential for grimn...

April 23, 2021 Credit...Illustration by Ian Woods; Photography by Kwaku Alston / Getty Images Ava DuVernay isn’t up for an Oscar this year, but it’ll probably still be a satisfying evening for the acclaimed director: She had a hand in or actively championed five films nominated for awards — genre-spanning works that take us from rural Rajasthan to South Central Los Angeles. In a year with one of the most diverse slates of nominees ever, Ms. DuVernay’s influence is unmistakable. After a relatively brief time in the movie industry establishment — less than a decade â€...

BBC News By Vincent Dowd image captionRap star Joey Bada$$ plays the central character Carter Travon Free was co-writing a romcom screenplay last year when George Floyd died. Free decided the romcom would have to wait - as an African American, he wanted to create a serious screenplay addressing the police killings of black people in the US. But the resulting short film, Two Distant Strangers, which is nominated at this week's Oscars, still borrows a lot from one of the big comedy hits of the 1990s. Travon Free started his career as a writer on Comedy Central's Daily Show. Last May, he was at...

Ufus: Photo 12/Alamy Stock Photo. Trial: Niko Tavernise/NETFLIX. Minari: Josh Ethan Johnson/A24. Rock: MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images. Judas: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Clockwise from top left: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in 'The Trial of the Chicago 7,' Oscar host Chris Rock in 2016, Daniel Kaluuya in 'Judas and the Black Messiah,' 'Minari,' 1933's 'Rufus Jones for President.' For marginalized groups — in the industry and at home — recognition by the Academy is more than an ego boost or a glamorous diversion but signals to the world that "the lives they live, the struggles they face, are wor...