It’s Oscar season again and the films competing for this year’s statuettes are as wildly diverse a group as the Academy has seen this millennium. While all of the films in competition are deserving of recognition, category by category it is not all that hard, in most cases, to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Category: Arts
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Black history offers a glimpse into the future
Shweta Satyan, Centretown News
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