Writer-director Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari comes with a sense of pedigree: His first film, Munyurangabo, about two Rwandan youth, made a huge splash after debuting at Cannes in 2007. His output has been admittedly spotty since then — an oddball character study here (Abigail Harm), a co-directed documentary there (I …
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Cynthia Erivo was nominated twice at the Oscars forHarriet Monday morning. She scored nods in both the Best Actress and Best Original Song categories, making this the third year in row that an actor has been nominated for Best Original Song and in an acting category for the same film. …
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This Sunday, we– along with millions of other viewers around the globe – will be perched in front of our TVs and tuning in to watch the 90th Academy Awards. And like the legion of other film fanatics and pop-culture connoisseurs who’ll be hanging on host Jimmy Kimmel‘s every snarky …
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Back in 1982, Randy Newman picked up his first two Oscar nominations, for an original song and score for the movie Ragtime. Twenty years – and over a dozen more noms – later, Newman eventually brought home an Academy Award, for the Monsters, Inc. tune “If I Didn’t Have You.” …
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