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A Penn screenwriting professor on the Oscars’ screenplay categories and the year of ‘Barbenheimer’

Ahead of the 96th Academy Awards on March 10, Kathy DeMarco Van Cleve of Cinema & Media Studies offers predictions for the screenplay categories.
Barbie and Oppenheimer advertisements on a theater.
Advertisements for the films “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie” in Los Angeles.
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