Winning the Academy Award for best picture requires succeeding through a combination of factors. Winning the Academy Award for best director, though, is the Academy’s way of pointing directly at ...

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The director’s cut is one of the stranger and more complicated divots in the landscape of film. As anyone in Hollywood will tell you, getting to direct your own movie is already very nearly a miracle, ...

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The film, from the Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, explores the tension between religious conservatism and social liberalism. The award closed a festival that felt comparatively muted to many. By ...