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As you consider last week’s nominations for the Academy Awards, test your knowledge of works that inspired previous winners with this short quiz.

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With Lucasfilm now under new leadership, Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan need to do more to protect actors and creators from ...

Disney's The Black Cauldron infamously brought its animation studio to the brink of disaster, but it would do well to ...

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Ryo Orikasa discusses how he transforms literature, poetry, and written language into animated form through text, sound, and silence.

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Find out what happened to NASA’s Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan, a.k.a. the real women behind ‘Hidden ...

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