Pitt film fanatics offer 2018 Oscar predictions
By Vikram Sundar | For The Pitt News
March 1, 2018
Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the film industry will recognize some of the most well-crafted, impactful films of the year at the Oscars Sunday night. But Hollywood’s biggest night will also likely be consumed by social issues such as the Time’s Up movement, which H...
Rock solid: host’s comments on diversity outshined awards at Oscars ceremony
By Britnee Meiser / Staff Writer
February 29, 2016
Sunday night’s 88th annual Academy Awards ceremony was a night of firsts. Industry professionals started the ceremony’s first boycott over the #OscarsSoWhite controversy — which host Chris Rock returned to again and again throughout the night. The academy also nominated a woman for adapting he...
Oscar’s rejects: The best movies without an awards invite
By Dan Sostek and Shawn Cooke / The Pitt News Staff
February 19, 2015
“Birdman” or “Boyhood?” This question will likely be repeated 1,000 times before Sunday, when we’ll finally know who takes home Best Picture at the Oscars.The big award, Best Director and Best Actor stand to be the only real contentious major awards, with nearly all the major acting catego...
Ellen Degeneres puts a human touch on the Oscars
By Britnee Meiser / For The Pitt News
March 5, 2014
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Expectations for Ellen DeGeneres as the host of last Sunday’s Academy Awards were high enough even before the event began. Of course, after Seth MacFarlane’s jokes about overweight celebrities, domestic violence and racial slurs and a melody titled “We Saw Your Boobs” during last year’s show, h...