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Olivia Colman’s Win Was the Oscars’ Biggest Surprise. Her Response Was Everything an Awards Speech Should Be.Well, The Favourite didn’t win Best Picture, continuing the Oscars’ 68-year streak of not recognizing women’s stories as being worth the biggest prize. But in the night’s biggest and most delightful surprise, the film’s Queen… Read MoreWhen It Comes to Diversity, These Were the Perfect Oscars for 2019Three years after the launch of #OscarsSoWhite, the 2019 Academy Awards simultaneously gave us inspirational new firsts in representation and reminded us how bad the diversity picture in the film industry still looks. Yes, th… Read MoreThe 2019 Oscars Came So Close to Getting It RightOver the past year, the Academy Awards has behaved like a dear friend in the midst of a personality crisis. At 91, its handlers decided it desperately needed a makeover, something that might stanch declining ratings and make … Read MoreSpike Lee Finally Won an Oscar and Had the Best Reaction of the NightSpike Lee finally won his first non-honorary Oscar, and the filmmaker’s reaction, both in his powerful words and in his joyful dance moves, was the most memorable of the night.
from Stories from Slate https://ift.tt/2Tio5pq… Read MoreGreen Book’s Triumph Was a Throwback to an Older Kind of Oscar TravestyThe 2019 Academy Awards started off breaking records and defying expectations. Barely an hour in, the Academy had already given out a record number of Oscars to black women, including Ruth Carter and Hannah Beachler, for the … Read More
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