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2018 Oscar Predictions: Who Will Win
2018 Oscar Predictions: Who Will Win
2018 Oscar Predictions: Who Will Win
The 90th Annual Academy Awards airs Sunday, March 4. Jimmy Kimmel will host the Oscars gala for the second, consecutive year on ABC.
This Year’s Biggest Oscar Snubs and Surprises
This Year’s Biggest Oscar Snubs and Surprises
This Year’s Biggest Oscar Snubs and Surprises
The full list of nominees for the 2017 Academy Awards are out, and while there’s plenty to celebrate about this year’s batch of Oscars contenders, there are also plenty of surprises. And some of those surprises are of the not-so-good kind that involved leaving out our favorite movies or filmmakers of 2016. Below, the staff of ScreenCrush picked out the biggest Oscar snubs of 2017, along with a few of the most pleasant shockers from this year’s list of nominees. The winners of all the awards will be announced on Sunday February 26 at the 89th Academy Awards.
Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs Issues Statement on Oscar Diversity
Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs Issues Statement on Oscar Diversity
Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs Issues Statement on Oscar Diversity
The greatest outrage stirred by last week’s announcement of the Oscar nominees was not the Best Picture snub for Carol or the absurd exclusion of Todd Haynes from the Best Director category, but rather the troubling homogeneity of the twenty men and women nominated in the acting categories. Specifically, many have taken issue with the fact that this year’s Oscar slate looks about as white as a Whole Foods before noon on a Sunday. The social media hashtag OscarsSoWhite resurfaced within minutes after the nomination announcement had finished, and Spike Lee has even called for a boycott of the ceremony as a response to the blatant lack of diversity in this year’s picks.

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