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Has a Best Picture race ever felt like such a done deal? Even in years where there's been an obvious frontrunner, there was still some room for surprise come Oscars night. That doesn't seem to be the case this year, where Nomadland is so primed to win that if any other film were read off, we would say, " Why do they keep letting Warren Beatty present Best Picture?!" Chloé Zhao's resilient road movie became the first film to ever win both Venice's Golden Lion Award and the Toronto International Film Festival's People's Choice Award, the latter heralding it as one to watch come awards season...

Academy Award Nominated Short Film Features First Deaf-Blind Actor “Feeling Through” is a great feel-good movie and the documentary of the making of the film is even better — view both!   I’m haunted by the way I behaved the first time I came into close proximity with a Deaf-Blind person. It was in the lobby of the student union building at Gallaudet University — the famous liberal arts school for the Deaf in Washington, DC. At the time, my Deaf daughter Miranda was a student there. It was a Saturday night and I was killing time, waiting for a nearby campus theatre to open its door...

Oscar nominated short films are available through the Fredonia Opera House. The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center has launched its latest round of films that can be streamed online in the Opera House Screening Room, featuring the 2021 Oscar-nominated short films. The Opera House Screening Room provides movies and other digital programming online to its patrons in the wake of the continued COVID restrictions which have restricted the theatre’s opening. The cost of streaming the films varies, depending on the film. The revenue generated is shared by the Opera House and the film...

SHORTS TV As we prepare for the upcoming Academy Awards, one category—or, to be precise, three categories that are easy to gloss over are the short films. This is because most of us simply haven’t seen or even heard of them. SHORTS TV has made a laudable effort to change this, and the 2 021 Oscar Nominated Shorts can be viewed in theaters and online—mostly online this year, if we are being honest. As a filmmaker in addition to being a film critic, I’m most prolific in the area of making short films because they are easier to get made at a high quality and on a low budget. But as some...

Burrow. Photo courtesy Roxie Theater It feels like a very long time since I wrote about last year’s Oscar-nominated short subjects, and indeed it’s been slightly more than a year — in 2020, the shorts were released theatrically in January, immediately prior to the Academy’s Feb. 9 awards ceremony. This year, the pandemic has pushed the Oscars all the way to April 25, and the shorts are only now being made available via Rialto Cinemas Elmwood and the Virtual Roxie. There are a whopping eight films in this year’s animation category, and, to be honest, it’s a fairly weak crop. By fa...