• Hairstylists Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson along with makeup artist Sergio Lopez-Rivera won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for their work on the film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
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• The celebrated Korean actor plays a loving, mischievous grandma in Minari — a role that has earned her newfound fame in the U.S. She says the character brought back memories of her great-grandmother.
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• The Oscar nominations embraced David Fincher’s Mank, a movie about movies, which is no surprise. But if you want to pick your own favorites, this is the year to do it.
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• Of the 819 artists and executives invited to join this year, the Academy says 45 percent are women and 36 percent are from underrepresented ethnic and racial communities.
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• The short documentary is called Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re A Girl. “This movie is my love letter to the brave girls of that country,” says director Carol Dysinger.
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• Bong Joon-ho’s film about families, class and keeping secrets won best picture. It’s the first time a film in a language other than English has won the top prize.
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• This year’s best picture race doesn’t have as clear a frontrunner as it sometimes has. But just as Moonlight came through on a shocker of an evening in 2017, Parasite might pull it off this year.
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