Three Oscar-nominated films prominently featured characters using sign languages. It’s an important contribution to recognising Deaf culture and identity.
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The movie, about a trans woman’s struggle for her rights, comes as Chile debates a long-awaited gender identity law.
Frances McDormand’s inspirational Oscars speech could lead to more diversity in the industry. But you can’t be inclusive at the top if minorities can’t gain a foothold in the first place.
While the 2018 Oscars ceremony showed its support for women against sexual harassment, women remain underrepresented in some of the awards catagories.
Mexican directors have won in their category four years out of the past five.
Speaking up and telling the truth is important, but we need to be mindful that it is risky, far from safe for all victims and survivors.
Only recently did it come to represent the dream of fame.
Throughout its history, the Academy Awards has picked some questionable winning films. But there are signs the Oscars are more often recognizing quality filmmaking.
Sound, color and special effects transformed the moviegoing experience. These inventions decidedly did not.
Juxtaposed against this year’s other nominees, Call Me By Your Name reveals just how heavy-handed, self important and downright silly much popular cinema has become.
Daniel Day Lewis makes his last appearance in Phantom Thread as master of a fashion house disturbed by his relationship with a waitress.
The leading contender for the Oscars has been hit with claims its theme comes from an unacknowledged 1960s play. What does US copyright law say?
The brilliance of stop motion technology tends to mask the raw talent Serkis brings to his performances.
Desire haunts every sun-drenched frame of the Oscar-nominated film starring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer.
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Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Darlithydd mewn Polisi Cymdeithasol (Cyfrwng Cymraeg)/ Lecturer in Social Policy (Welsh medium), Bangor University
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Lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sussex
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Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Washington
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Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Lecturer, Department of Screen Arts & Culture, University of Michigan
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Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature, University of Leicester
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Principal of Innis College and Professor in the History Department and Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto
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Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor of Film and Screen Studies, University of Portsmouth
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of East Anglia
