the oscar
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21 of the Best Movies for Anyone Who Ever Wanted to Fly
You have to go pretty far back into movie history to reach a time before we were making movies about aeroplanes. The very earliest films saw us flying in a fantastical context (think of Georges Méliès and his Trip to the Moon), but it wasn’t long after the advent of the fixed-wing aircraft that movies…
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25 Movies That Are Basically Perfect
Some of the very best movies of all time have flaws that aren’t terminal, but that are nevertheless prominent: a questionable performance, a problematic element, an ending that doesn’t quite land. That’s fine: a film that takes risks is generally preferable to one that’s technically proficient but dull, and a movie can be great without…
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12 Movies That Will Make You Love Hand-Drawn Animation
In the 20 years since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences introduced the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, a hand-drawn movie has claimed the award only once — Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki’s 2001 masterpiece Spirited Away. From Shrek to Wall-e to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, every other winner save one — the stop-motion…