Weekend binge — Hollywood circle jerk
20th Century Fox/Courtesy
20th Century Fox/Courtesy
Even Netflix is trying to get in the game — if you haven’t already seen from Timothée Chalamet’s bowl cut being aggressively touted on its website.
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Reel Talk episode 12: Send in the clowns
In this episode of Reel Talk, Daily Cal assistant arts editor, Grace Orriss, and former assistant editor, Jackson Kim Murphy, talk their thoughts on DC’s new “Joker” film! How does it measure up to the past iterations of the character? Should it win Oscars? Listen to find out.
March Madness of Fashion: Most outrageous red carpet looks
Each of the final four red carpet looks was iconic in the world of extravagant fashion, but Lady Gaga’s was the obvious winner. It’s no coincidence that the final two looks were both worn by the star.
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All the ways the 91st Academy Awards were just like any other day at UC Berkeley
Now that awards season has officially come to a close with the culmination of a host-less Oscars and the announcement that the controversial film “Green Book” took this year’s best picture throne (we personally would’ve given our own paper green books the win), here are all the ways the 91st Academy Awards were just like any other day at UC Berkeley.
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Reel Talk episode 1: 2019 Oscars edition
And the award goes to… Anagha, Maisey and Jackson! Listen as this trifecta from the Daily Cal’s arts and entertainment department talk predictions, hopes and critiques surrounding the 2019 Oscars award show.
The Academy Awards needs to confront transphobia in its binary award categories
The first step in remedying this problem is for the academy to address the limitations of its categories and to express a genuine understanding of how it perpetuates an oppressive gender binary. The next step is to find ways to acknowledge nonbinary actors without forcing them to identify as a specific gender.
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Quiz: Which 2019 Best Picture nominee are you?
With the Academy Awards just around the corner, the question that immediately comes to mind is: have you even watched any of the nominated films yet? We at the Clog have the perfect quiz to help you find out which best picture nominee is the ideal match for you.
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The Acade(me) Awards
Views from the Outside
I wanted to be a whole slew of firsts, and initially, I found my dream to be a tribute to my tenacity. It was, for a time, what I wanted most out of a career in the industry. And then #OscarsSoWhite happened.
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Who will, could and should win the 2019 Academy Awards
This awards season has truly been a wild ride; fingers crossed that optimism will prevail and the Oscars will emerge from this critical inferno having made some good choices.
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Reboot the Oscars: Award categories that the Academy should include
Though the act of categorizing films is still problematic, and while there won’t likely ever be a universally satisfying metric with which to judge film, the Academy is in dire need of some well-thought-out new categories to add to the awards season mix.
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