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Academy Awards
Academy Awards news and analysis from The Nation
December 18, 2020
The biopic of writer Herman Mankiewicz recuperates the subversive politics of a cinematic masterpiece.
June 22, 2020
From Do the Right Thing to Da 5 Bloods , no American filmmaker speaks more urgently to our times.
February 10, 2020
Bong Joon-ho’s film about the gap between rich and poor challenges English-language dominance in the industry.
January 24, 2020
Now we need a film to cut through US myths about the North.
February 26, 2016
The Oscars aren’t just a competition for cultural value: They double as an assessment tool that helps pick the industry’s economic winners and losers.
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August 8, 2015
“Is Charlie being stupidly insensitive to Raymond? Or is Tom Cruise, with his lesser talent, failing to notice that Dustin Hoffman is acting up a storm?”
June 29, 2015
"She acquired a reputation upon the smallest of down payments and then, like the honest debtor she is, set about the unpleasant business of earning the fame she already enjoyed."
February 25, 2015
A win for the Edward Snowden documentary is a win for democracy.
February 23, 2015
For people who truly care about this issue, there's more to do than glory in Ms. Arquette's acceptance speech.
February 11, 2015
In the early part of the twentieth century, women’s creative talent was far more widely recognized and valued in the filmmaking community.