THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.

THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.

Oscars

  • By February 11, 2020

    Why do most of the nominations come from the tail-end of the year?

  • A Royal Affair deserving of its Oscar nomination

    By March 16, 2013

    Set in Denmark during the latter half of the 18th century, A Royal Affair features Alicia Vikander as Queen Caroline Mathilde recounting her life in Denmark’s high court.

  • As the Oscars showed us, we need Israeli Apartheid Week

    By March 16, 2013

    Earlier this month, one of the most glamorous cultural events of the year took place. The Hollywood elite donned some of the world’s most expensive clothing and jewelry for an evening that honours the year’s best achievements in film and acting: the Academy Awards.

  • The consequence of losing an Oscar bet: Jack and Jill versus Bio-Dome

    By April 7, 2012

    I lost the Sheaf’s Oscar poll to arts editor Aren Bergstrom. As punishment, I agreed to compare Adam Sandler’s recent Razzie champ Jack and Jill with the eternal gong show Bio-Dome, starring Pauly Shore and one of the unfunny Baldwins.

    Jack and Jill is very recent and therefore representative of the times we’re living in and Bio-Dome is the only other crappy comedy I’ve watched recently. I’m going to pit them against each other in three categories — story, performance and comedy — in order to determine which movie is less cringe-inducing.

  • Predictions for the 83rd annual Academy Awards

    By February 18, 2011

    With the Oscars once again upon us, here is a rundown of the night’s most likely winners in the major categories.

  • The King’s Speech: Colin Firth’s most important role to date

    By February 11, 2011

    The King’s Speech covers five years during the 1930s. It is about the protagonist King George and his battle to defeat his arch-nemesis wireless, more commonly known as radio.

  • Academy Awards post-mortem

    By March 10, 2010

    Oscar night: a time when all the best and brightest of Hollywood look up at the stars and wish for the chance to get their hands on that precious statue. So what do the Oscars mean? Every year, all they do is enrage people. Some say that the Academy is out of touch with cinema, some say it is flooded with arthouse sensibilities, and some say it doesn’t have enough arthouse sensibilities.