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so the academy is reviewing whether or not to remove Will Smith’s award and here are some interesting tweets about that :)

so the academy is reviewing whether or not to remove Will Smith’s award and here are some interesting tweets about that :)

Web Shoutout: Academy Originals

Welcome to Web Shoutout, a series highlighting interesting places in the interwebs about movies and filmmaking! (Check out the previous Web Shoutout here)

This episode, I’m going to talk about Academy Originals, a Youtube channel of video series produced by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, of the Academy Awards (or might be best known as The Oscars) fame. For all the problems existing inside The Academy Awards, almost surprisingly, Academy Originals consistently puts out extremely sincere and inspiring videos about people working in the industry. They usually feature dedicated, extremely talented people of professions closely linked to filmmaking--sometimes even professions you might have never heard about or thought about. They talk about why they do what they do, and how they do it, and they always leave me inspired (and makes me wish I can be that person). For anyone who loves to find love in filmmaking processes, this channel would certainly feed your soul every Monday.

Just check out these videos, hand-picked from the channel!

1. “Credited As: Creature Performer” -  Tom Woodruff (Aliens, Jumanji, Zookeeper)

2. “ Academy Close-Up: Conservators” - Conservation team of Academy's Margaret Herrick Library

3. “Creative Spark: Theodore Shapiro” -  Theodore Shapiro, Composer (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Tropic Thunder, The Devil Wears Prada)

4. Questions: What Was The First Movie That Scared You?

Subscribe to Academy Originals.

leonardo dicaprio at the 2016 academy awards

(more leo close-ups here)

Just watched "The Banshees of Inisherin" and it's been such an emotional rollercoaster in the most satisfying way... go watch it, you won't regret it

the immediate cut to jeremy strong after kieran culkin’s acceptance speech, i love when life imitates art

the eldest boy loses again

will smith slapping chris rock was not on my 2022 bingo card

#Life imitates art

Euphoria 2.08 / 94th Annual Academy Awards

Bonus:

GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS

Iran won it's first ever oscar in animation! 😭

Yall do not understand this is HUGE

Ive seen these guys in person, and they are literally of the best and sweetest people I've ever met!

They worked day and night, with terrible economy, with a lack of professional artists, with no particularly stable income, absolutely NO SUPPORT from the country, NO SPONSOR, and they freaking ROCKED

Ive seen that man three times so far, and every time, he was incredibly sleep deprived, because of this exact project

These guys were not given a visa until last minute and they rushed to the ceremony after a 25 hour flight directly FROM THE AIRPORT, they couldn't attend a meeting ment for the oscar nominees because iran wouldn't give them permission to exit the country

They went through everything you could think of

And as an Iranian animation student, to know that they were able to do it, it just means that my dreams are just not as impossible as they seemed