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Sound of Metal +10000   After winning the Golden Globe for Best Picture Drama as a -180 favorite, Nomadland has vaulted up the oddsboard to become a -600 favorite in Oscar odds to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.  The film stars Frances McDormand as a widow who travels across the United States after losing her job and meets people in similar struggling circumstances.  The movie has been universally acclaimed by film critics and seems like a runaway train to take the golden statue.   The competition in the Best Picture category for 2020 doesn’t seem as overwhelming as in years pas...

This year’s five Oscar-nominated live action shorts are strong, disturbing and concise (the longest is 45 minutes). Among the issues they explore are law and order, immigration and interracial relations. “Two Distant Strangers” examines police brutality and the African-American’s nightmarish anxiety that he will inevitably encounter it. “Feeling Through” explores the unlikely bond between a Black homeless teenager and a deaf and blind white man. “The Letter Room,” centers on the ambivalent experiences of a correctional officer whose duties in the prison’s mail room entail re...

A knee injury interrupted Travon Free’s college basketball career—and started his show business career. While rehabbing a torn meniscus at Long Beach State he told his teammates jokes. That led to stand-up work, which led to writing jobs at The Daily Show (both the Jon Stewart and Full Frontal With Samantha Bee. Now Free, 36, finds himself with an Oscar nomination as the writer and codirector of the live-action film Two Distant Strangers. It tells the story of Carter James, a young Black graphic artist played by Joey Bada$$, who is confronted and murdered by the NYPD’s Of...

Robeson Taj Frazier was uneasy when he started seeing ads for Amazon's "Them," about a Black family in the 1950s being terrorized by hostile white neighbors and supernatural forces. The USC professor, who is the director of the Institute for Diversity and Empowerment at USC's Annenberg School of Communication, feared that the drama would contain disturbing images of violence and brutality toward Black people, echoing scenes in HBO's "Watchmen" and "Lovecraft Country" and other recent projects that mashed up the troubled history of racial turmoil in America with genre elements. His concerns we...

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