The Teaches of Sneetches

Autumn Durald Arkapaw is her name!

If you go to the Newberry Library and ask for Ben Hecht's Oscar statue, they'll let you hold it.

Academy Film Archive Lays Off Multiple Staff Members in Restructuring as AMPAS Announces Expansions to Collection The Academy Film Archive has laid off archive and library staff members in a restructuring move, as the Academy Museum announced new acquisitions.

A reminder that the Academy shamelessly and wrongly fired a lot of its archivists

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wunmi mosaku and delroy lindo deserved it tbh

Sinners deserves Best Cinematographer simply for the fact that it's a modern movie where you can tell what's going on during all the night scenes

Coogler has known composer Ludwig Göransson since they were students at USC. Amazing full circle moment

it makes it even more striking how there still has only been one Black woman best actress winner, ever. in 98 years.

you can count on one hand the number of powerful men in Hollywood who champion women artists like Ryan Coogler

you could almost count them on NO hands

RIP Paula

"Our Bodies, Ourselves" was so important to me at 19 because it was a crucial source of honest and open information about bodies, lives, and experience in a time when such information was otherwise almost impossible to come by.

weird

If they don't give Jordan two Oscars for Best Actor they'll have missed one hell of an opportunity for a bit

"The announcement comes as more than 20,000 sick and wounded Palestinians, among them roughly 4,000 cancer patients and 4,500 children, remain on waiting lists for medical treatment unavailable in Gaza.

Of those, nearly 440 cases are classified as immediately life-threatening."

People on awards shows don't "make it political." The world is political. Our lives are political. Our choices are political. The only decision is whether to acknowledge it.

Viewers noticed Ryan Coogler appears to have a guitar and treble clef braided in his hair at the #Oscars

Javier Bardem at the Oscars: No to war, and free Palestine.

Religious leaders condemn Michigan synagogue attack – but moving forward together tricky Jewish and Arab American leaders decry violence at Temple Israel, but US-Israel war on Iran complicates healing

“’The unjustified Israeli attack on civilians in Iran and Lebanon gives no blank check to anyone attacking synagogues, civilians and peaceful communities,’ Dearborn imam Hassan Qazwini told the Detroit Free Press on Friday.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Okay, I was trying to ignore the weird little man, but what is his problem?
Its borderline disturbing how he keeps insisting that Dr Bender perform to his liking--not only say what he wants her to say but in the tone he wants her to say (I remember him saying that she shouldn't be "smug" earlier).

Misty Copeland comes out of retirement to put Timothée Chalamet in his place during a live ‘Sinners’ performance at the #Oscars.

Always better to name your doctrines in ways that don't suggest it's about having "flaming locks of auburn hair."

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Ayman is trying so hard to reach more eyes so his children can survive

Over 2 years of malnutrition, poor water quality and inconsistent medical treatment is torture

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He looks like he's on his way to attack an opposing spy with a massive spherical bomb. He looks like Johnny Depp's Mii. He looks like Clarence from It's A Kidz Bop-derful Life

This is Amy Madigan and Ed Harris refusing to applaud Elia Kazan's honorary Oscar in 1999. During the Blacklist Era, Kazan named names.

Good on Amy and Ed.

Check out this cool trick <easily holds both “Palestinian people deserve life and dignity” and “Jewish people deserve life and dignity” to be true at the same time>

apropos of hollywood’s big day

I’m watching a film where Daniel Craig is playing a character who is investigating a bunch of family members in constant friction with each other, all living under the umbrella of their rich patriarch, played by Christopher Plummer. Craig is assisted by a young woman who . . . HANG ON A MINUTE.

just watched the short doc on costumery

:)

Ah.

41 years old, evacuated here legally, asylum case pending, kidnapped while driving his six children (one a US citizen) to school. Dead within 24 hours.

Betrayed and murdered by the United States government.

42nd confirmed and reported death in ICE custody under Trump.