The history of the Academy Awards is a complicated one. For every groundbreaking and unexpected Oscar nomination, there are groan-inducing ways this awards show keeps coming up short. Just look at the ...

At the same time as we have a President preaching “America First,” that most American of cultural institutions, the Oscars, is going international at a dramatically quickening pace. It’s finally ...

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This concept was also enough to make "Il Postino" an Academy Awards powerhouse. Scoring five Oscar nominations, the film stood toe-to-toe with higher-profile American movies in categories like best ...