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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?

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    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? Kim Masters is editor-at-large for the Hollywood Reporter and host of The Business, about the business of show-business, on KCRW.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Katie Cooper

      Producer, 'One year Later'

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      Benjamin Gottlieb

      Reporter, Fill-in Host

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      Gideon Brower

      Independent Producer

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      Kim Masters

      partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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    The full episode

    3 of 3
    Racial Tensions on Campus
    1. 0:00Who's in Charge in Crimea?
    2. 8:05Fifty Years after the Civil Rights Era: Racism on Campus
    3. 42:58Is Fact Worth More than Fiction at the Oscars?You’re reading this
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