A film, streamed by Apple TV+, won Hollywood’s top award without a penny of box office at the Oscars last year. But this year — plot twist! — there isn’t one streaming title in the hunt for the Academy Awards’ major prizes.
), the best actress category is already ultra-competitive. But a late-breaking, celebrity-backed campaign has pushed Andrea Riseborough forward for her performance as an alcoholic West Texas mother in the little-seen October release, “To Leslie.” Riseborough wasn’t seen as in the awards mix but she did land a nomination from the Independent Spirit Awards.
A confrontation scene, set in a remote village along the Iranian-Turkish border, from the film"No Bears."The academy’s policy that international films are submitted by the governments of their origin countries has had a chilling effect on filmmakers working inside oppressive regimes. Jafar Panahi’s laudedwill be absent only because Iran, which imprisoned Panahi earlier this year, predictably chose not to submit it.
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