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Oscar's Best Picture Race Should Include a Documentary This Year Tim Gray, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Is this the year a documentary finally gets a best picture Oscar nomination? When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in 2009 expanded the top category to 10, then-prez Sid Ganis expressed hope the noms would include animation, international films and docs. Since then, the first two groups have made the grade, but no docs. Many people this year, confined to their homes because of COVID, are sampling titles they might have missed otherwise; hopefully, this is true of Oscar vot...

Mick LaSalle December 11, 2020Updated: December 14, 2020, 4:25 pm Zendaya (left) and Timothée Chalamet star in Denis Villeneuve’s remake of “Dune,” now slated for October 2021. Photo: Warner Bros. This month, Warner Bros. announced that its entire 2021 film roster will be released simultaneously into theaters and onto its streaming service, HBO Max. We’re talking about big movies such as “Dune,” “The Little Things” and “Godzilla vs. Kong.” I was unfazed by this. I know people have been worrying about the fate of movie exhibition, like about whether the thea...