Oscars: How new academy rules could change best picture race
In the latest effort to address the changing exhibition environment, the Motion Picture Academy announced Wednesday new rules expanding the theater requirements for films to qualify for Best Picture at the 97th Academy Awards. New rules, approved by the group’s 54-member board of directors, require films to exceed current requirements (one week of theatrical release […]
Did Marlon Brando’s Oscars proxy fake a Native American identity?
Holding a sophomore portrait of her sister Maria Cruz at her home in Marin County, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023, Trudy Orlandi wrote about the woman who would later become famous as Native American activist Sashen Littlefeather. I’m talking (Carl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) In March of 1973, Sacheen Littlefeather hung up in her San […]
