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Ford will serve as a juror in the U.S. documentary category – one of seven juried categories.
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Alumni have two fellow alumni to cheer for as they watch this year’s Academy Awards presentation on Sunday, March 4.
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Andrew Metz ’91 is the managing editor for Oscar-nominated film Abacus: Small Enough to Jail. A documentary directed by Steve James and produced by FRONTLINE, Abacus is nominated in the Academy Awards’ best documentary category.
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Yance Ford ’94 made Oscars history as the first openly transgender filmmaker nominated for an Academy Award. His film, “Strong Island” was nominated for Best Documentary Feature.
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As a part of the F.I.L.M. series, Hamilton welcomed Raoul Peck to campus for a screening and discussion of his his Oscar-nominated I Am Not Your Negro.
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In three recent articles, TIME magazine has engaged the expertise of Hamilton experts in reporting a story. Most recently, Director of Special Collections and History Lecturer Christian Goodwillie was quoted in Read a Rare Alexander Hamilton Love Letter to Elizabeth Schuyler.
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When ESPN’s 30 for 30 O.J.: Made in America, was announced at this week’s Academy Awards ceremony as the winner in the best documentary category, alumna Deirdre Fenton ’04, was one of its producers receiving an Oscar.
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Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate says, “This year's Oscar line-up is once again rife with religious references, and the entertainment industry may be overtaking religious institutions as the prime mythmakers and ritual producers in a society where the 'nones' are on the rise.”
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Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies Brent Plate’s perspectives on this year’s Oscar nominees and the themes conveyed by them appear on several major media sites including CNN.com, Religion Dispatches and beliefnet.com. “It’s kind of an unusual year – almost all of the top films have relatively little explicit religious dimensions to them,” said Plate. “But these films are asking the same questions that religions ask: Where did we come from, how did we get here, where are we going and who are we?”
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