Historical Films at the Oscars

Posted on February 24, 2012 by briansandberg

Historical films are in the running for Oscars at the upcoming Academy Awards ceremony. Each year, films portraying historical subjects figure significantly in the Oscar nominations, but there seem to be an exceptionally large number of historical films this year.

Bruce Chadwick, a scholar of film history at Rutgers University, writes about this year’s crop of historical films on History News Network.

Northern Illinois University students in HIST 390 History and Film will be interested in this article.

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