This Sunday night many students will have Valentine’s Day Part 4 or they are maybe going to some house party. I, along with several million people around the world, will be watching the 85th Academy Awards.
The Oscars are the most prestigious film awards in the country and possibly the world. Equivalents to these highly desired trophies include England’s British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, or BAFTA, and France’s Cesar Awards.
Many of my friends are unaware of most of this. Just the other day I was chatting with a few people about my excitement for Sunday night, and it never ceases to amaze me that so few people my age know anything about film. Or even the arts in general.
As a homework assignment, students should tune into ABC. They just might learn something by accident.
Every year a number of achievements in film are recognized and this year is especially unique. For Best Leading Actress this year two of the nominees are of the youngest and oldest to ever be nominated for the category. Quvenzhané Wallis is only nine years old and stars in “The Beasts of the Southern Wild,” and French actress Emmanuelle Riva is 85 years old and stars in “Amour.”
History is being made and too many people are missing out. Every American is expected to watch the NFL Superbowl Game, but those same people hounding me for not watching their programs won’t watch mine? Makes total sense, does it not?
Here’s a proposition EHS, take just a few minutes during your re-watching of “Catfish” or “Tosh.0” or whatever is on and be cultured. Or at least watch Anne Hathaway give her acceptance speech for “Les Misérables” because let’s face it—she’s a shoe in. And don’t even get me started on Jennifer Laurence in “Silver Linings Playbook.”