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A knee injury interrupted Travon Free’s college basketball career—and started his show business career. While rehabbing a torn meniscus at Long Beach State he told his teammates jokes. That led to stand-up work, which led to writing jobs at The Daily Show (both the Jon Stewart and Full Frontal With Samantha Bee. Now Free, 36, finds himself with an Oscar nomination as the writer and codirector of the live-action film Two Distant Strangers. It tells the story of Carter James, a young Black graphic artist played by Joey Bada$$, who is confronted and murdered by the NYPD’s Of...

2. Who the heck will win Best Actress, anyway? There hasn’t been an acting category this wide open in years, because the last time four different actresses won the Golden Globe, the Critics Choice Award, the SAG Award and BAFTA was, well, never. Andra Day won at the Globes for “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” Carey Mulligan at the CCA for “Promising Young Woman,” Viola Davis at SAG for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and Frances McDormand at BAFTA for “Nomadland” — and any of the four could quite conceivably win on Oscar night. (Sorry, Vanessa Kirby.) Day might have th...

Zaria Simone stars in Two Distant Strangers, so let’s get to know her a little, considering her work and previous roles. Is she on Instagram?

Let’s get the Two Distant Strangers ending explained. The Academy Award-nominated short film is now on Netflix, but what is the meaning behind it?

Burrow. Photo courtesy Roxie Theater It feels like a very long time since I wrote about last year’s Oscar-nominated short subjects, and indeed it’s been slightly more than a year — in 2020, the shorts were released theatrically in January, immediately prior to the Academy’s Feb. 9 awards ceremony. This year, the pandemic has pushed the Oscars all the way to April 25, and the shorts are only now being made available via Rialto Cinemas Elmwood and the Virtual Roxie. There are a whopping eight films in this year’s animation category, and, to be honest, it’s a fairly weak crop. By fa...