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Academy Awards 2021: Boseman Loss Shows Why We Still Do (and Don’t) Need the Oscars
It wasn?t supposed to go like that. After unexpectedly re-arranging the schedule to push Best Picture up and let the acting categories shine, the Academy clearly wanted to send a message. With the foregone conclusion that Chadwick Boseman would posthumously take Best Actor for his work in Ma Rainey?s Black Bottom, it was going to definitively…