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Radha Blank stars in her directorial debut film, The Forty-Year-Old Version. Jeong Park/Netflix hide caption

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'The Forty-Year-Old Version' is about getting older and finding yourself

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Ke Huy Quan plays Waymond, the meta-verse traveling husband in Everything Everywhere All At Once. A24 hide caption

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In 'Everything Everywhere,' Ke Huy Quan found the role he'd been missing

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Catherine Clinch plays Cáit in The Quiet Girl. Super Lt hide caption

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This tender Irish drama proves the quietest films can have the most to say

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Keri Russell stars in Cocaine Bear. Universal Pictures hide caption

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The 95th annual Academy Awards will be held on March 12. Kevin Winter/Getty Images hide caption

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'Oscar Wars' spotlights bias, blind spots and backstage battles in the Academy

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Producer Dede Gardner says she has a gut instinct about which films to take on. "I don't see any point in telling stories that have already been told," she says. Gardner is pictured above at the UK premiere of Women Talking in London in October 2022. Joe Maher/Getty Images for BFI hide caption

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Whatever she touches 'turns to gold' — can Dede Gardner do it again at the Oscars?

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Director Bing Liu (center) with his mother and half-brother. Bob Bolen hide caption

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What happens when a director's camera is pointed at their own families?

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During rehearsals on the set of Rust in October 2021, actor Alec Baldwin, here pictured in 2015, fired a gun with a live round, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. He now faces involuntary manslaughter charges. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption

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Barry Keoghan poses for photographers with the Supporting Actor award for 'The Banshees of Inisherin' at the 76th British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA's, in London, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023. Vianney Le Caer/Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP hide caption

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Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick. Scott Garfield/Paramount Pictures hide caption

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Rosie Perez on her first meeting with Spike Lee and her favorite Rihanna song

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Un visitante entra en el edificio del Casino de Oficiales de la ESMA el 19 de marzo de 2016. Las ventanas están repletas de imágenes de civiles que fueron torturados y asesinados allí. Eitan Abromovitch/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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A visitor enters the Officers Casino building at ESMA on March 19, 2016. The windows are filled with images of civilians who were tortured and killed here. Eitan Abromovitch/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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'El Juicio (The Trial)' details the 1976-'83 Argentine dictatorship's reign of terror

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