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The Oscars Finally Find Their Rightful Winners

Last night, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored four artists whose cinematic achievements had been overlooked for decades.
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Given how concerned the Academy Awards have been about the of the Oscars broadcast, they should have given a prize to David Lynch long ago. At yesterday’s Governors Awards, a special ceremony that hands out honorary Oscars for lifetime achievement and humanitarian causes, the venerated director of such films as and was presented a trophy and kept his remarks pithy. “To the Academy and everyone who helped me along the way, thanks,” Lynch said, before turning to the Oscar statuette itself. “You have a very nice face. Good

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