Tag: Academy Awards

  • Nation & World

    ‘Stand Up’ for best song

    Recent alums Joshuah Campbell and Gabe Fox-Peck discuss their Best Song Oscar nomination for “Harriet.”

    4 minutes
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    ‘Moonlight’ reflection

    Composer-pianist Nicholas Britell ’03 will celebrate with Harvard friends this weekend as his score for “Moonlight” competes for the Oscar for best original score.

    6 minutes
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    A movie as a mirror

    Three young Harvard alumni explain the genesis and the process of their making the hit film “Whiplash.”

    4 minutes
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    Calling the Oscars

    For the past three years, a Harvard College junior has employed statistics and percentages to predict many winners at the Academy Awards.

    3 minutes
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    Film as a force

    Three documentary filmmakers up for an Academy Award this Sunday all have ties to Harvard’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, a longstanding, multidisciplinary program with a strong commitment to nonfiction film.

    10 minutes
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    Birth of an actor

    Tommy Lee Jones discusses his first glimpse of the foreign turf of New England, and a hard choice he had to make on arriving: Should he focus on football or acting?

    1 minute
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    A Pudding Pot for Cotillard

    Actress Marion Cotillard came to Cambridge to receive her Hasty Pudding award as the 2013 Woman of the Year.

    3 minutes
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    From book to cinema

    FAS professor learns in roundabout fashion that her book about the sexual abuse of Peruvian women has become an inspiration for an award-winning film.

    3 minutes