A Guide to Oscar’s Shortlisted Documentary Shorts, From the Holocaust to Sophia Loren

Antonio Ferme editorThe Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has announced details regarding its opening gala, which will be held on Sept. 25.

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is assembling a star-studded cast for its opening gala in September. Italian screen legend Sophia Loren and independent filmmaker Haile Gerima will be honored with special awards, and Tom Hanks, Annette Bening and Bob Iger are being saluted for their efforts to raise $388 million for the long gestating museum, the organization said Monday.The gala will be held on Sept.

Also Read: Academy Museum Opening Postponed (Again) To September Due to COVID-19The honors to Gerima and Loren are the inaugural Vantage Award and the inaugural Visionary Award, respectively.  The Vantage Award honors an artist or scholar who according to a statement honors “an artist or scholar who has helped to contextualize and challenge dominant narratives around cinema.”  The Visionary Award honors “an artist or scholar whose extensive body of work has advanced the art of cinema.” Both

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The long-delayed Academy Museum of Motion Pictures looks like it is finally ready for its close-up.

Naman Ramachandran “The White Tiger” actor Priyanka Chopra Jonas talks to director Karishma Dev Dube and the young stars of “Bittu,” which is shortlisted in the live action short film category at the 2021 Oscars.“Bittu” is the story of a close friendship between two girls (played by Rani Kumari and Renu Kumari) in northern India that is eclipsed by an accidental poisoning at school.

Sophia Loren I was born in 1934, raised by a single mother who had my sister and me out of wedlock.My father was nowhere to be found. We lived in a tiny house with my grandmother, mother, and uncles.

When Netflix suggested I might like to preside over a conversation between Sophia Loren and Frank Langella, two titans of the screen and stage, it felt churlish to turn the opportunity down. They both appear in films handled by the streamer this year; Loren makes her return to screens after more than a decade away in The Life Ahead, directed by her son Edoardo Ponti, and Frank Langella delivers a blistering turn as Judge Julius Hoffman in Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7.

website, more than a third of all jobs in the town come from the tourism industry.But, as a result of COVID-19, that industry has obviously taken a hit. So, in hopes of boosting their numbers again, the townspeople have created a video Oscar campaign.Also Read: 'Eurovision Song Contest' Film Review: Will Ferrell as an Icelandic Wannabe Pop Star?It follows a man from Husavik named Oskar Oskarsson (because what else would he be named?).

Time, the most honored documentary of the past year, has been described as a film about mass incarceration. That’s true enough, but director Garrett Bradley sees another theme at its heart.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentLong after rising to stratospheric stardom during the glory days of cinema Italiano and Hollywood’s golden era, Sophia Loren has stepped out of semiretirement to play Madame Rosa, a former prostitute and Holocaust survivor, in “The Life Ahead,” directed by her son Edoardo Ponti.It’s yet another signature role and a stunning comeback for the Italian icon, now 86, who after working with the crème de la crème of award-winning co-stars, this time shines

Sofia Carson steps out in a pink and maroon dress for the 2021 Golden Globes held at The Beverly Hilton on Sunday (February 28) in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The 2021 Golden Globe Awards have found the perfect way to get fans excited for the big show.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Chile scored twice at this year’s Oscars derby with Maite Alberdi’s genre-bending documentary “The Mole Agent.” For a Chilean film to be shortlisted for both the International Feature Film and Documentary categories is unprecedented.

Horror is woven into political drama in La Llorona, the riveting Golden Globe Foreign Language Film nominee and shortlisted International Feature Oscar contender from Guatemala’s Jayro Bustamante. An elderly wealthy man hears ghostly noises in the night.

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Read the guide to the shortlisted short documentaries here.“Burrow” (Pixar)“Burrow” Director: Madeline Sharafian The first of two Pixar films on the shortlist is a guided tour of all the things that live underground, courtesy of a rabbit who is looking for his own home.

Sue Kim, director of an Oscar-shortlisted short documentary about competitive Rubik’s Cubers, can solve a complex storytelling puzzle in under 40 minutes.

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