How do you win an Academy Award?
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Even after recent dramas – #OscarsSoWhite controversies and the fiasco when
La La Land was wrongly named best picture – an Academy Award remains the ultimate prize in the movie industry.
It’s a validation of excellence that comes with more than 90 years of history, celebrity and glamour – as emotional as winning an Olympic gold medal for everyone from famous directors and actors to unknown visual effects technicians, make-up artists and the creators of animated shorts.
Part of the cachet is mixing with the movie elite at a ceremony in Los Angeles every February or March (moved to April this year because of the pandemic). But Oscars are also famously hard to win. Some of the world’s greatest filmmakers – Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Howard Hawks, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa – have never won best director. A
How do you win an Academy Award?
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13 Oscar-Winning Films You Can Watch for Free Right Now
Classic features, inventive shorts and brain-scrambling docs ABC Photo ArchivesGetty Images
Given how few of this year s Academy Award nominees were available to watch anywhere ahead of the ceremony itself, you could be forgiven for feeling a little bit short-changed this Oscars season. Still, there is a very handy and cheap way to work yourself up into an Oscars fever: dig into the deep back catalogue of past winners, and do it without spilling a penny.
Obviously, as we said in our other big round-up of great films you can watch for free, you should support your local cinema when they eventually open up again. If you ve got an indie near you, make sure you get some pick and mix and a drink too.
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