In the extraordinary new age of subtitled streaming and globalized filmmaking, the Oscar category is becoming a caricature of itself as a relic of the past.
This year's Oscars contenders for documentary short films cover the housing crisis, life in present day Afghanistan, the story of a pioneering Black woman athlete, a deaf high school, and bullying.
The new documentary painstakingly recounts the deadly 1971 prison uprising. NPR's Michel Martin talks to co-directors Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry.
The movie's conceit is right up director Adrian Lyne's alley: a story about the mixing of sex and violence. But the film, starring Ana De Armas and Ben Affleck, is more competent than anything else.
Months after the Rust cinematographer was shot and killed, Halyna Hutchins' mother and father have been unable to escape the country, says her widower, who calls for safe corridors for refugees.
'CODA' costar Daniel Durant, who is deaf, shares a story about turing up the sound system in his car. A musicologist explains that people who are deaf have a complex appreciation of sound.
The Netflix movie, directed by Charlie McDowell, follows three unnamed characters played by Jason Segel, Jesse Plemons and Lily Collins. What unfolds is unsettling, suspenseful and very, very tense.