By Kayla Cheung Last night’s 93rd Academy Awards passed by with empty seats and a drama-less red carpet; though, not without an unprecedented amount of history-making wins in the form of films like Minari and Sound of Metal. For the first time ever, Asians dominated the Oscars nominations in categories that have always been geared…
By Aileen Delgado The 91st academy awards gave its audience quite the prize-worthy reaction with its exceptional diversity, iconic speeches, capturing performances––and its hostless show. The ceremony was both held and telecasted on Sunday of February 24th, recognizing this year’s greatest accomplishments in the film industry. “Green Book” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” were some of…
By Abigail Rosales Jaw dropping dresses draping the red carpet, journalists fishing for quick interviews and all of the Hollywood elite applauding: All will be present at the 91st Annual Oscars. As usual, the nominees for the many categories were all picked carefully in order for the best of the best to have a chance…
By Devin Dubon With the Academy Awards, which were held on March 4, came its expected share of controversy. This year’s Oscars hit record low ratings, with only 26.5 million people tuning in—a dramatic 20% drop from the previous record low. This was despite the many attempts made by the Academy to increase an already…
By Diana Rodriguez The 90th annual Academy Awards had its moments of laughter, tears, and confusion, with this year’s Oscars being the most racially diverse, and socially outspoken. Victims of Harvey Weinstein stood towards the crowd to call for more “equality, diversity, inclusion, [and] intersectionality.” These women—Salma Hayek, Ashley Judd, and Annabella Sciorra, who got…
By Devin Dubon 2017 has been a year filled with controversy and tragedy, mass shootings and suicide bombers, political upheavals both domestic and worldwide. Every month has seen dozens of new stories breaking and information being revealed, and the consequence of which is that they are quickly forgotten – receiving only a few days in…
By Alexandra Reboredo Moonlight is a film that reaches the audience in a way no other production piece has done before — it realistically depicts how difficult it is to be black, gay, and poor as the main character struggles through drug abuse, bullying, and street violence. Set in Miami, the film follows Chiron, a young…
By Elizabeth Gonzalez La La Land is a film for the dreamers and the romantics. No matter which category you fall into, you end up falling in love with La La Land’s protagonists: Mia and Sebastian. This film leaves watchers feeling a whirlwind of emotions by the time the credits roll in or singing one…
By Christian Steiner The only injustice superior to that of Leonardo DiCaprio never receiving an Oscar is the misrepresentation (or lack thereof) of minorities in Hollywood. For the second year in a row the Academy is being accused of whitewashing the Oscars. No nominee (actor, director, writer) is from an ethnicity that isn’t white. Spike…
This weekend brought to us the awards show we were all excited for: the Razzies took place on Saturday March 2nd! Movie 43 took away the best/worst award you could receive of the evening; the horrible comedy walked away with worst picture of the year and the 13 directors all won/lost worst director of the year….