Tag: Academy Award

Denzel Washington and Viola Davis star in the Oscar-winning film

Oscar-winner ‘Fences’ on Prime Video and Paramount+

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Denzel Washington directs and stars in the screen adaptation of the acclaimed August Wilson play, reprising his role from the 2010 stage revival along with costars Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Russell Hornsby, and Mykelti Williamson.

Clint Eastwood’s Oscar-winning ‘Unforgiven’ on HBO Max

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“I don’t deserve this, to die like this. I was building a house.” “Deserve’s got nothing to do with it.” Clint Eastwood’s 1992 western Unforgiven earned the director his first Oscars, for Best Picture and Best Director. In a way, it finally made official what critics and fans had slowly come to realize over the last […]

Jacob Tremblay and Best Actress Oscar winner Brie Larson in 'Room,' directed by Lenny Abrahamson

Brie Larson in ‘Room’ on Netflix and free on Kanopy and Hoopla

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It’s called Room (2015). Not The Room, simply Room, as if there were no others. And for Jack (Jacob Tremblay), the five-year-old son of a young mother (Brie Larson), there aren’t. It’s his entire world, his universe, and as far as he knows nothing exists outside the walls. His mother, known only as Ma in the film, […]

Charles Ferguson's Academy Award-winning documentary on the 2008 financial crisis

‘Inside Job’ – Exposing the financial crisis on Hulu

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Charles Ferguson’s Academy Award-winning documentary Inside Job (2010) is a damning exposé of the story behind the 2008 financial crisis and the failures of both government and industry to put measure into place to prevent a similar abuse of the system from occurring again. Documentary filmmaking is where some of the best investigative journalism is […]