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Birdman wins Oscar for Best Picture!
Best Picture Nominees Flash Exhibit Series: Birdman
For a film that was written as self-reflexive exploration of performance, theater, and the long arc of an actor's career within the film industry, it seemed appropriate to continue on that track and search the film itself for more references. There were many to be found, some more explicit than others.
Best Picture Nominees Flash Exhibit Series: The World of "Grand Budapest Hotel"
They’re Back! Our Series of Flash Exhibits on Oscar Nominations for Best Picture
Each exhibit runs for 2 days only—stop by Library Special Collections to catch all of them--- they’ll be gone in a flash!
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Oscar™ in the Archive
The annual Academy Awards ceremony – now universally known as The Oscars – is first among equals in entertainment awards prestige. Now a late winter affair, the first statuettes were awarded in the spring of 1929 – May 16, to be precise. Held in a banquet room of the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles there were only three nominees for Best Picture that year; nine films are in competition in 2013.
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