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Academy Awards 2021 Forecast

Oscars of change

The big prizes are likely to be split among a handful of films that celebrate the working class, black history and the immigrant experience

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This will not be the year for a juggernaut, a movie that sweeps the categories the way the romantic dramas Titanic (1997, 11 wins) and Slumdog Millionaire (2008, eight wins) did.
Instead, the major prizes will be split among a handful of films that celebrate the working class, black history and the immigrant experience.
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