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Todd Wawrychuk/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images The writer-director became the first Black winner in the best live-action short category when his 'Two Distant Strangers' film collected the Academy Award on Sunday night. Writer-director Travon Free has signed a first-look producing deal with Endeavor Content after, along with co-director Martin Desmond Roe, winning the Oscar for best live-action short for “Over the last year, I’ve developed some great creative relationships with some wonderful people at Endeavor Content, who I’ve found to be as committed as I am to making art that is not onl...

It's finally that time again: The Academy Awards are upon us and we're covering all the live updates and big winners from the pandemic-era Oscars.

Frances McDormand is best actress, Anthony Hopkins named best actor "Look, they didn't ask me, but I would have said karaoke," says McDormand, who thought that the Oscars should have had a karaoke bar. She did remember the award: "Thanks for this." But the biggest shock happens in best actor, where "The Father" star Anthony Hopkins upsets Chadwick Boseman. 'Nomadland' takes best picture So the Oscars pulled a fast one and didn't have the top prize at ceremony's end, but odds-on favorite "Nomadland" does take best picture. "Please watch our movie on the largest screen possible," says star Fr...

Frances McDormand is best actress, Anthony Hopkins named best actor "Look, they didn't ask me, but I would have said karaoke," says McDormand, who thought that the Oscars should have had a karaoke bar. She did remember the award: "Thanks for this." But the biggest shock happens in best actor, where "The Father" star Anthony Hopkins upsets Chadwick Boseman. 'Nomadland' takes best picture So the Oscars pulled a fast one and didn't have the top prize at ceremony's end, but odds-on favorite "Nomadland" does take best picture. "Please watch our movie on the largest screen possible," says star Fr...

'Two Distant Strangers' and 'If Anything Happens I Love You' collect Academy Awards. Two Netflix shorts that address gun violence were honored Sunday at the Oscars. If Anything Happens I Love You -- which follows two parents grieving the loss of their child in a school shooting -- won the Oscar for best animated short, while Two Distant Strangers collected the Academy Award for a live-action short. Writer/director Travon Free and director Martin Desmond Roe accepted the award for Two Distant Strangers, which addresses the topic with the story of a Black man who is in a time loop in which h...