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A Concerto is a contender


Halifax’s Ben Proudfoot’s documentary short gets Oscar nom.
It’s a good week to be Ben Proudfoot: The Halifax-raised filmmaker co-directed the 2021 documentary short
A Concerto is a Conversation, which is now up for an Oscar, as announced Monday by The Academy. (Arguably, though, Proudfoot has already won the ultimate prize by working alongside the Oscar-winning filmmaker Ava Duvernay, the genius behind
13th,
When They See Us, as Duvernay has an executive producer credit on the doc.)
A Concerto is a Conversation is Proudfoot’s first nod from the Oscars. It follows a jazz pianist’s family lineage from Jim Crow-era Florida to the Walt Disney concert hall. Released through the New York Times’ Op-Doc series, you can watch the full 13 minute film on the NYT’s YouTube channel. ....

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'Hillbilly Elegy' star Glenn Close is nominated for an Oscar — and a Razzie


EGOTs are nice. But when the 2021 Oscar nominations were unveiled Monday morning, screen veteran Glenn Close achieved a rare feat of her own.
For the eighth time in her illustrious career, the actress picked up an Oscar nomination for her latest star turn. But get this — she also landed a Razzie nomination for the same role.
At both the Academy Awards, which honor the best in filmmaking, and the Golden Raspberry Awards, which honor the worst in filmmaking, Close has been recognized for her work as tough-loving grandmother Mamaw in Netflix s Hillbilly Elegy. Close, 73, is nominated in the best supporting actress category at the Oscars and the worst supporting actress category at the Razzies. ....

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Oscar nominations 2021: Which movies you should watch, and where to stream them.


With the 2021 Academy Awards nominations finally unveiled, it’s time to set about the business of catching up on the nominees. If, like most people, you’ve been spending the last year curling up with reruns of
The Office or just staring mutely into space, here’s a guide to which movies you need to watch before the Oscars’ April 25th broadcast if you want to have any opinion on the winners, which ones it’s safe to skip, and which you might want to check out just for, dare we say it, fun.
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