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Published: 6 Aug Steven Yeun and Emerald Fennell among latest invited to be Academy members. Published: 1 Jul Not only the brave: why straight actors playing gay are no longer automatically acclaimed.

If Ammonite and Supernova are anything to go by, queer roles are no longer awards bait. Published: 18 Jun Or maybe Skolsky really did come up with the moniker whether he did or not, he certainly helped popularize it. In the end, nobody really knows why the Academy Award statuette is called an Oscar. His idea was to have a knight gripping a sword while standing on a film reel. Sculptor George Stanley was then hired to create the actual statuette based on this design idea.

Incidentally, the Academy states that the five spokes on the film reel the knight is standing on signify the original five branches of the Academy: writers, directors, actors, producers, and technicians. Have you got a Big Question you'd like us to answer? If so, let us know by emailing us at bigquestions mentalfloss. Frances McDormand wins Best Actress. Glenn Close doing 'Da Butt'. Two Distant Strangers. Misha Collins. PDT and in more than territories worldwide.

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, seen here at its first organizational meeting in , remains largely white and male. John Horn. Doug Smith. Follow Us twitter instagram email facebook.