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Is Fact Worth More than Fiction at the Oscars?
Nine films are up for Best Picture when the Academy of Motion Pictures hands out the Oscars on Sunday. All but three are based, at least roughly, on real events. Will some version of fact trump fiction? What about box office?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readNine films are up for Best Picture when the Academy of Motion Pictures hands out the Oscars on Sunday. All but three are based, at least roughly, on real events. Will some version of fact trump fiction? What about box office? Kim Masters is editor-at-large for the Hollywood Reporter and host of The Business, about the business of show-business, on KCRW.
