Janelle Monae Opens Oscars in Song, Celebrates Being ‘a Black Queer Artist Telling Stories’ (Watch) — Variety

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Janelle Monae kicked off the Academy Awards with a song-and-dance production number based on her 2010 song “Come Alive,” lyrically rewritten to reference the Oscars and some of the year’s top films — with spoken asides about the lack of female directors represented among the nominees, and what she personally…

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Taika Waititi Dedicates His Oscar to Win the Indigenous Kids of the World — Variety

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Taika Waititi has won best adapted screenplay at the 2020 Academy Awards for “Jojo Rabbit.” Taking the stage the actor, director and writer joked about his statue, “This is really light! 29 more words via Taika Waititi Dedicates His Oscar to Win the Indigenous Kids of the World — Variety

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