Atomic bomb movie ‘Oppenheimer’ crowned best picture at the Oscars
Los Angeles, US Reuters Oppenheimer, the blockbuster biopic about the race to build the first atomic bomb, claimed seven Academy Awards including the prestigious best picture trophy on Sunday as Hollywood celebrated a triumphant year in film. Irish actor Cillian Murphy won best actor for playing theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the US […]
Sight-Seeing: Greta Gerwig didn’t get an Oscar bid for ‘Barbie’ but she does get Genesis
DWIGHT LEE WOLTER, author of The Gospel of Loneliness and pastor of the Congregational Church of Patchogue on Long Island, New York, says – in and article first published on Religion News Service – that there’s a candy-coated Biblical parallel to be found in the best-picture nominee…
Offbeat multiverse movie ‘Everything Everywhere’ dominates the Oscars
Los Angeles, USReuters Everything Everywhere All at Once won the coveted best picture trophy at the Academy Awards on Sunday as Hollywood embraced an off-kilter story about a Chinese-American family working out their problems across multiple dimensions. The movie claimed seven awards overall, including three of the four acting Oscars for stars Michelle Yeoh, Ke […]
Faith on film: Oscar nominee ‘Minari’ spotlights Korean American faith and the role of the church
Ahead of the Academy Awards on Sunday night, EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, looks at the film ‘Minari’…
A Sudan in transition presents first-ever film for Oscars
Cairo, EgyptAP Nearly two years after the overthrow of autocrat Omar al-Bashir, Sudan is taking steps to rejoin the international community from which it was long shunned. That includes its film industry. For the first time in its history, Sudan has a submission for the Academy Awards. Produced by a consortium of European and Egyptian […]
With Oscar glory, ‘Parasite’ shines light on Seoul’s housing crisis
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation South Korean film Parasite, which became the first non-English language movie to win the Best Picture award at the Oscars, highlights the widening divide and lack of affordable housing in the capital Seoul, according to social analysts and academics. Director Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, which also won Oscars for Best Original Screenplay, […]
Interfaith film misses Oscar, but raises hope in Africa
RNS A scene from ‘Watu Wote’, based on the militant ambush of a Mandera, Kenya, bus in December, 2015. PICTURE: Courtesy of Hamberg Media School It didn’t bring home an Oscar this week, but a film nominated for one is helping to spread a message that many Africans said is too rarely heard: that people […]