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When you’re forced to put away your phone for two hours and focus on strangers inhabiting a different world, the fear that life might be slipping through your fingers fades into the background.
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In honor of the upcoming 92nd Academy Awards, we at the Clog are filled to the brim with anticipation regarding the ceremony. Who will become a meme? Who will renounce capitalism in their acceptance speech? Is Chancellor Carol Christ invited? But no question weighs on our mind more than that
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But after a year packed with critically acclaimed, masterful films directed by women, watching the complete shutout stung more than expected.
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Whether the success of a film at the Globes is proof of a strong awards campaign, or whether the HFPA is even reflective of Oscar voters, is uncertain.
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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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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.
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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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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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 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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