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'Nomadland' wins top awards in history-making Oscars ceremony Anthony Hopkins wins over Chadwick Boseman for best actor at the Oscars.  April 25, 2021 — 11:38pm Text size Copy shortlink: "Nomadland," which has dominated Oscar talk ever since it debuted at the Venice Film Festival last fall, made good on that Sunday night at the 93rd Academy Awards, taking home three trophies, including best picture. The drama — the second best picture filmed in western South Dakota (after "Dances With Wolves") — also won for director Chloé Z...

The Oscar nominees for Documentary Shorts are usually very difficult to watch. I mean, they're uniformly excellent, but the films are always extremely topical and unflinchingly brutal in their dedication to truth. At Tin Pan Theater over the last six or seven years, I've been lucky enough to watch most of the Oscar Shorts (including the Animation and Live Action ones), but I'm not sure any single short film affected me the way Skye Fitzgerald and Michael Scheuerman's "Hunger Ward" did. "Hunger Ward" focuses on the famine in Yemen, ongoing since 2016 and beginning during the Yemini ...

He says the nominees are following a "very strict protocol" to attend the ceremony at the Union Station railway hub in Los Angeles. The show will be held primarily at that venue but some elements will unfold at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. International winners who can't attend will appear by satellite link from their location. Proudfoot already lives in Los Angeles and therefore doesn't have to quarantine to attend the show, which airs on ABC and CTV. "It's a sign of hope," he said of the Oscars deciding on a physical bash instead of an all-virtual one. "I think three, four months ago it...

When Respawn Entertainment and Oculus Studio created 2020’s Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond it wasn’t just a wall-to-wall WWII first-person shooter, the studios wanted to honour those that fought by helping to create several short documentaries. One of those was Colette, which has received an Oscar nomination. If you’ve not played the videogame, this week sees the arrival of Colette on Oculus TV so you don’t need to. Directed by filmmaker Anthony Giacchino and producer Alice Doyard, Colette follows one of the last surviving members of the French resistance, 92-year-old Colette M...

Ben Proudfoot stands with his mother, Madine VanderPlaat, at the family residence in Halifax on Monday, March 15, 2021. With COVID-19 tests, a vaccine shot, tuxedo and customized mask under his belt, Canadian Oscar nominee Ben Proudfoot is set to attend Sunday's pandemic-tailored Academy Awards. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan TORONTO – With COVID-19 tests, a vaccination, tuxedo and customized mask under his belt, Canadian Oscar nominee Ben Proudfoot is set to attend Sunday’s pandemic-tailored Academy Awards. The Halifax-raised producer and filmmaker is nominated alongside composer an...