Academy Awards

Academy award expansion

September 7, 2023

Serena Anagbe / Photo EditorThe Oscars. As it stands, there exists two Oscar writing categories: Original and Adapted. Fairly simple, but the academy takes these distinctions seriously. The rules about adaptations are so strict, in fact, that the 2016 winner,…

The best of the best – The Oscar Best Pictures

February 12, 2015

With less than a week to go until the 87th Academy Awards, on February 22, the time is right to look critically at the eight films nominated for Best Picture of 2014. You have probably watched a couple of the…