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By Andrew ShusterMar 17th, 2021, 11:59 am VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images China has ordered media outlets not to air a live broadcast of this year’s Oscars over the nomination of a documentary chronicling the 2019 Hong Kong protests. The Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda department issued the directive, which includes limiting coverage of the awards show overall. Outlets were told that their Academy Awards coverage should focus on non-controversial nominees. The move is believed to be in response to the nomination of the film, Do Not Split, which is up for Best Documentary Short S...

Report: Beijing Bans Oscars Broadcast over Hong Kong Protest Film Nomination 17 Mar 2021 The authoritarian government of China on Wednesday reportedly ordered state television not to carry the Academy Awards ceremony next month, because one of the films nominated for an Oscar is about the Hong Kong protest movement. The thin-skinned Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is also nursing a grudge against Chloe Zhao, director of Best Picture nominee The film that reportedly got the Oscars banned from Chinese television is , a short documentary about the Hong Kong protests of 2019 directed by Anders H...

Screening of documentary on Hong Kong pro-democracy protests canceled 1 minute read Beijing, Mar 16 (efe-epa).- A controversial documentary on Hong Kong pro-democracy protests was pulled out hours before the film was scheduled to be screened in the city. “Inside the Red Brick Wall” covers 2019 clashes between protesters and security forces at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University was to premiere in the city on Monday evening. The Hong Kong Film Critics Society said on its Facebook page that the screening had attracted “too much attention” and therefore they canceled it to prevent “...

Oscar Nomination Predictions: Will There Be Weird Choices for a Weird Year? In a long season that’s been hard to endure and hard to predict, here are our best guesses in all 23 categoriesSteve Pond | March 11, 2021 @ 6:15 AM AWARDS BEAT "Minari" (A24), "Nomadland" (Searchlight), "Promising Young Woman" (Focus), "The Trial of the Chicago 7" (Netflix) It’s time for Oscar voters to try and make sense of the movies from a year in which the movie business didn’t really exist. After 12 months of isolating and quarantining and watching movies that couldn’t go to theaters so they went to...

Film awards season: Journalism and activism in the spotlight Movies on social justice and investigative journalism dominate the nominations for major awards at the Oscars, the Golden Globes and the Baftas this year 08 Mar 2021 The Mauritanian, STX Entertainment West Wing writer Aaron Sorkin has taken another foray into the world of American politics with The Trial of the Chicago 7, starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne and Mark Rylance. The film delves into the trial of seven activists arrested for inciting violence during clashes with police that resulted from protests against the Viet...