Matthew McConaughey asks if you d like to go to the cinema (it would be a lot cooler if you did .)
The Oscars may have gone out with a fizzle, but they started with a very Austin bang starring both Matthew McConaughey and the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar. The pre-awards section of the evening featured a video celebrating the film industry s #TheBigScreenIsBack campaign encouraging audiences to head back to theatres as they reopen and build back to full post-pandemic hours over the summer. Featured front and center were the putative future candidate for governor of Texas and the Drafthouse s mother ship location itself.
Seventeen-year-old Lucie Fouble is the sensation of the Oscar award-winning documentary,
Colette, which follows 93-year-old former resistance fighter, Colette Marin Catherine, to the concentration camp Nordhausen-Dora, where her brother Jean-Pierre was assassinated. Nordhausen-Dora, a dependency of the Buchenwald camp, is notably where Wernher Von Braun, father of the space conquest, developed the V2 missile. Buchenwald was also where prominent French aircraft designer, Marcel Dassault, refused even in front of the gas chamber to collaborate to the fabrication of a future Franco-German interceptor which would likely have changed the course of the war in Germany’s favor. Lucie Fouble is currently working on the
Colette documentary: Where to watch the 2021 Oscar-winning short film
Wondering where to watch the Colette documentary? Well, look no further. We have it linked here! Stream the 2021 Oscar-winning short film now.
The 93rd Academy Awards took place on Sunday, April 25th 2021 and invited audiences to celebrate the best in film from the past year.
Nomadland earned the Academy’s most coveted award, landing Best Picture as well as Best Director and Best Actress.
The likes of Youn Yuh-jung, Anthony Hopkins, Daniel Kaluuya earned actor awards too, with such features as
Another Round,
My Octopus Teacher, and more receiving accolades.
Colette was awarded in the Best Documentary Short Subject category and interest in the film has intensified since.
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Colette, written and directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker Anthony Giacchino, produced by Oculus Studios and Respawn Entertainment, and released by The Guardian, has won an Oscar for best short documentary.
Executive produced by Peter Hirschmann and produced by Alice Doyard, Annie Small and Aaron Matthews,
Colette triumphed at the 93rd Academy Awards, winning the ‘Best Documentary, Short Subject’ category at a ceremony held in Los Angeles, California (Sunday 25 April).
Colette is the first Guardian documentary to win an Oscar, building on the success of
Colette’s executive producers for the Guardian were Charlie Phillips, Lindsay Poulton and Jess Gormley.