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Has a Best Picture race ever felt like such a done deal? Even in years where there's been an obvious frontrunner, there was still some room for surprise come Oscars night. That doesn't seem to be the case this year, where Nomadland is so primed to win that if any other film were read off, we would say, " Why do they keep letting Warren Beatty present Best Picture?!" Chloé Zhao's resilient road movie became the first film to ever win both Venice's Golden Lion Award and the Toronto International Film Festival's People's Choice Award, the latter heralding it as one to watch come awards season...

Director Farah Nablusi dedicates the award to ‘the people of Palestine’ in virtual acceptance speech.

Oscar nominated short films are available through the Fredonia Opera House. The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center has launched its latest round of films that can be streamed online in the Opera House Screening Room, featuring the 2021 Oscar-nominated short films. The Opera House Screening Room provides movies and other digital programming online to its patrons in the wake of the continued COVID restrictions which have restricted the theatre’s opening. The cost of streaming the films varies, depending on the film. The revenue generated is shared by the Opera House and the film...

The 93rd Academy Awards are less than three weeks away, and despite fewer films being released in 2020 because of the pandemic, there are still dozens of truly fantastic films being recognized.  Every year, some of the most overlooked categories at the Oscars are the short film categories. And just as all the major categories are stacked with excellence this year, so are the shorts. The five films nominated for best live-action short film this year are “Feeling Through,” “The Letter Room,” “The Present,” “Two Distant Strangers” and ‘White Eye.â...

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...