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The 78th Golden Globe Awards are scheduled for Feb. 28 and will be shown on NBC. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey will return to host the ceremony, which they last led in 2015. The Golden Globes typically take place in January. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which gives out the awards, pushed the ceremony to February this year, citing the coronavirus pandemic. Streaming services, including Netflix and Amazon, dominated the list of nominees, both with their own films like “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “One Night in Miami,” which wouldn’t have relied on open movie theaters to find eyeballs even during a standard year and with movies that the streaming companies purchased from traditional studios, including Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7.” We’ll talk about actors, directors, and other Golden Globe nomination next week.
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A lot of people can get burned out on that subject matter. What keeps you interested in digging into the darker side of human behavior, now in the film world?
I was magnetized to this world a bit as a kid. My dad was in the DA’s office depicted in Errol Morris film, “The Thin Blue Line.” So as I grew up, he dragged me around to precincts and the courthouse and jails. I think his intention was that I would be scared straight, but instead, I kind of imprinted like a duck on the world and have been embedded in it ever since.
Black UT-Austin faculty discussed hiring across different UT schools while students called for increased funding and the removal of “The Eyes of Texas” during the second day of the State of Black UT event, a three-day discusion regarding inclusion on campus.
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We recently asked an Austin expert for recommended movies to watch this Black History Month. Ya ke Smith is an associate professor of film at the University of Texas, as well as the Moody College of Communication s first associate dean of diversity, equity and inclusion. He s also a celebrated filmmaker in his own right: Smith s debut feature, Wolf, premiered at South by Southwest in 2012, and shorts like Katrina s Son, Brother and dawn. have found audiences across the country.
Here are a few of the stories told by Black filmmakers that Smith thinks you should watch, in his own words.