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Lily Gladstone attends the 96th Annual Academy Awards on March 10, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

Oscars' complicated Indigenous history

Nardos Haile
Ukrainian filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov (C), flanked by (from L) Raney Aronson-Rath, Vasilisa Stepanenko, Evgeniy Maloletka and Michelle Mizner, accepts the award for best documentary feature film for "20 Days in Mariupol" at the 96th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 10, 2024 (Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)

Oscars: "I wish I never made this film"

Nardos Haile
Actress Jane Fonda thanks the audience after accepting an Oscar for Best Performance by an Actress, at the 44th annual Academy Awards, at the Music Center, April 10, 1972. (Getty Images)

Wartime protests at the Oscars

Nardos Haile
Midsommar, Hustlers, Joker, and Glass (Getty Images/Universal Pictures/Annapurna Pictures/Proton Cinema/Warner Brothers Pictures/Salon)

"Joker" isn't remotely Oscar-worthy

Matthew Rozsa
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(AP/Danny Moloshok)

How Academy fumbled Best Popular Film

Anne Thompson - Indiewire
Chris Rock hosts the Oscars, Feb. 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP/Chris Pizzello)

The Oscars' awkward masochism

Jack Mirkinson
Michael B. Jordan in "Creed," Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Revenant" (Warner Bros. Entertainment/Twentieth Century Fox)

Unbearable whiteness of Oscars

Jack Mirkinson
Alejandro G. Inarritu accepts the award for best director for “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP) (John Shearer/invision/ap)

"Birdman" trumps "Boyhood"

Anna Silman
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Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald (ABC)

"Citizenfour" wins best doc

Anna Silman
(ABC)

"Everything is Awesome"

Anna Silman
Scene still from "Vatican Inc."

Amanda Pike - The I Files
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