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People of color were responsible for the majority of opening-weekend domestic ticket sales for big Hollywood hits such as Spider-Man: No Way Home enjoyed.

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People of color helped Hollywood through another pandemic year, a new study says

3:34pm March 24, 2022

by Andrew Limbong

According to the Hollywood Diversity Report from UCLA, films with casts that were less than 11% minority did worse at the box office than their more diverse counterparts.

Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster on set of the movie The Silence of the Lambs.

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You voted — here's a ranking of the top movies ever to win an Oscar for best picture

5:00am March 24, 2022

Pop Culture Happy Hour listeners voted on the top movies of all time to win best picture at the Oscars.

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Actress Jennifer Lopez, who plays Selena Quintanilla-Perez in the movie Selena performs with her band in one of the scenes from the movie. The biopic will premiere in theaters next month in honors of the film's 25th anniversary.

'Selena' biopic will return to theaters in April to celebrate its 25th anniversary

5:52pm March 22, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

'Selena' will return to theaters in April to celebrate the film's 25th anniversary.

This year's Oscar nominees for best international feature film: Hand of God; Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom; Flee; The Worst Person in the World; Drive My Car

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The case for nixing the Oscars' best international feature category

5:01am March 22, 2022

by Bilal Qureshi

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.

Amin's character in the animated documentary Flee.

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'Flee' creators on being a refugee: It's not an identity, it's a circumstance of life

3:00pm March 21, 2022

The film Flee opens with a question: "What does the word 'home' mean to you?" For Amin Nawabi, the answer is complicated.

A peek at the 2022 Oscar-nominated documentary short films

5:22pm March 20, 2022

by Mandalit del Barco

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.

'Attica' filmmakers on the making of the documentary

5:22pm March 19, 2022

The new documentary painstakingly recounts the deadly 1971 prison uprising. NPR's Michel Martin talks to co-directors Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry.

Melinda (Ana de Armas) and Vic (Ben Affleck)

Arts

'Deep Water' could have been artful or fun — but instead, it's just mechanical

2:44pm March 19, 2022

by Linda Holmes

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.

Halyna Hutchins' parents are trapped in Ukraine, Matt Hutchins says

8:03am March 19, 2022

by Mandalit del Barco

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.

Actor Daniel Durant, appearing on the Kelly Clarkson Show, describes how he enjoyed radio as a child by feeling vibrations from a car's sound system turned up all the way.

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'CODA' actor rocks out to music and NPR news

7:35pm March 18, 2022

by Mandalit del Barco

'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.