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One of this year's Oscar nominees, "Do Not Split," is a documentary about the 2019-2020 Hong Kong protests. But residents of Hong Kong who participated in

By MARK VIOLA My plan last weekend was to watch an Oscar-nominated film, and I ultimately did, although not one of the Best Picture nominees. Instead, I watched the 35-minute “Do Not Split,” nominated for Best Documentary Short. The film, which documents the protests that overtook Hong Kong in mid 2019 and continued until the COVID-19 outbreak in early 2020, has made quite a bit of news lately after it was reported that China will not air this weekend’s Academy Awards live due, at least in part, to this film’s nomination. Filmed amongst the protestors and featuring a variety of interv...

The Oscars: who should win, who will, who shouldn’t be here, who ought to be Ty Burr © Provided by The Boston Globe Oscar statuettes lined up and ready to go — but to whom? With the 93d Academy Awards on Sunday night, we officially crawl to the finish line of the longest Oscar season in recorded history, stretched like Silly Putty by pandemic but studded with small and welcome surprises. The major studios kept their 2020 Oscar hopefuls on the shelf — “In the Heights,” “Dune,” Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story,” a new Wes Anderson, and an Aretha Frankli...

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