Thursday morning on The Tennessee Star Report, host Leahy welcomed Academy award-nominated screenwriter, Roger Simon in studio to discuss the art of screenwriting, woke Hollywood, and some of his recommended picks.
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Roger Simon Talks Voting for the Academy Awards, Screenwriting, and Hollywood Moguls
Thursday morning on The Tennessee Star Report, host Leahy welcomed all-star panelist Roger Simon in studio to talk about voting on the Academy Awards and the art of screenwriting.
Read the full storyThe Epoch Times Senior Editor-At-Large Roger Simon Talks Golden Globes Cancellation and Reflects on Being Nominated for an Academy Award
Tuesday morning on the Tennessee Star Report, host Michael Patrick Leahy welcomed all-star panelist and The Epoch Times Senior Editor-At-Large Roger Simon in studio to discuss the woke cancellation of the Golden Globes and what it was like being nominated for a screenwriting Oscar.
Read the full storyAcademy Delays 2021 Oscars Ceremony Over Coronavirus Concerns
For the fourth time in its history, the Oscars are being postponed. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the ABC Television Network said Monday that the 93rd Academy Awards will now be held April 25, 2021, eight weeks later than originally planned because of the pandemic’s effects on the movie industry.
The Academy’s Board of Governors also decided to extend the eligibility window beyond the calendar year to Feb. 28, 2021, for feature films, and delay the opening of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures from December until April 30, 2021.
Read the full storyStudents Critical of University of Minnesota’s Decision to Invite ‘Green Book’ Producer to Commencement
The University of Minnesota’s College of Liberal Arts invited “Green Book” producer and university alumnus Jim Burke to deliver the keynote address for its commencement ceremony, but some students and faculty aren’t happy with the decision. The movie was widely criticized for its use of racial slurs and for employing a “white savior” trope in which Viggo Mortensen’s character repeatedly gets co-star Mahershala Ali out of jams along their musical journey through the south in 1962. To many’s dismay, the film managed to win best picture at the 2019 Academy Awards. “‘Green Book’ is a white savior film. It allows and encourages a state of cognitive dissonance for white audiences between their perceived sense of self and racism,” Becca Mayo, a fifth-year student studying cinema and media culture, told the Minnesota Daily. Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature instructor Brad Stiffler said the movie’s main problem is “its depiction of interpersonal relationships as antidotes to racism,” saying it simplifies “systemic and institutional racial problems.” “It’s something that this film especially seems to fall in that trap of reducing the complexity and the seriousness of race and race relations in the U.S. to this sort of caricatured idea of ‘Can…
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