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Academy Award Winner Roger Christian Brings Star Wars To Kentuckiana

Academy Award-winning set decorator Roger Christian and New York Times best-selling author — and New Albany native — Dr. David West Reynolds will be in conversation at the Floyd County Carnegie Library Cultural Arts Center on Saturday, June 1. "Creating the Star Wars Universe" presents two generations of Lucasfilm creators who share their experience with the Star Wars saga. Christian will present his approach to the production of props like lightsabers and the interior design of the Millennium Falcon as well as how he developed the desstinctive and influential "used...

Film about Arkansas barber nominated for Academy Award

A film shot in and focused on Little Rock, Arkansas, is an Academy Award nominee."The Barber of Little Rock" was one of five films nominated for Best Documentary Short. The winner will be announced during the Oscars ceremony on March 10, 2024, which will be aired on 40/29. Follow this link for the full list of Oscar nominees.The film tells the story of Arlo Washington, who created the People Trust Loan Fund, a nonprofit community bank. It helps create opportunities for people in the community facing economic and racial inequality.The...

Oscars 2024: Who got snubbed for Academy Award nominations

It’s a very big day for Lily Gladstone, Martin Scorsese (nominated for the 10th time as best director, for “Killers of the Flower Moon”), “Oppenheimer,” “Poor Things,” and numerous other happy Academy Award nominees — but for now, let’s turn our attention to a time-honored ritual: the Oscar snub. Here are a few titles and names that Oscar watchers were surprised to not see on Tuesday morning’s slate. Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, “Barbie”: The news was mixed for the pink-hued summer smash. “Barbie” received an impressive total of eight...

‘They make me want to vomit’: Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss slams
new Academy Award diversity quotas

Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss responded to the Academy Awards new inclusion standards with disgust and said "they make me want to vomit" in an interview on the PBS program Firing Line with Margaret Hoover on Saturday. "Starting in 2024, films will be required to meet new inclusion standards," Hoover said. "To be eligible for the Academy Awards for Best Picture, they'll have to have a certain percentage of actors or crew from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups. What do you think of these new inclusion standards for films?" Dreyfuss answered,...

Oscars Diversity Requirements

“The body that hands out the Academy Awards on Tuesday published detailed inclusion and diversity guidelines that filmmakers will have to meet… movies that want to be considered eligible for a best picture nomination at the 2024 Oscars will have to meet two of the four new standards, the Academy said.

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A call for unity: What Joaquin Phoenix and Renee Zellweger got right at the Oscars

As has become the norm, a recent Hollywood award show ignited a partisan divide in reactions and news coverage from throughout the political spectrum. But buried under the hyperpolarized noise was a positive theme that many people missed — a call to find common ground.

The Oscars finally got it right

The Oscars took place Sunday night under torrential rain so heavy that it threatened to rip through the white tent sheltering the celebrity fabulousness on the red carpet. You'd be excused if you assumed this downpour to be a symbol of the sweeping cultural changes to which the Motion Picture Academy, and Hollywood in general, have failed to fully adapt.

Oscars’ TV Audience Plummets To All-Time Low [Infographic]

While South Korean film Parasite made history on Sunday by becoming the first-ever foreign language film to win an Oscar for Best Picture, the Academy Awards ceremony broke another record by reaching the smallest live American TV audience in its history. The glamorous event has been a TV favorite for decades but it has been experiencing a slide in viewers in recent years with the number of people tuning in on Sunday night slumping 20% to 23.6 million. The figures were released by Nielsen and represent a sharp decline on last year's 29.5 million viewers.

Equality: Hollywood Celebs Handed $225,000 Swag Bag at Oscars

A parade of monied Hollywood A-Listers preached down to the rest of us about equality at this year’s Oscars ceremony all while collecting a $225,000 swag bag.

This year’s swag bag, put together by LA-based Distinctive Assets, came with free cosmetic surgery, a cruise on a luxury yacht, dating services, gold-plated vaping devices, and more, according to reports.

“It’s the highest value we’ve ever put together,” Distinctive Assets founder Lash Fary said.

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