Awards season winners and nominees from the much delayed Oscars ceremony will be on TV soon.
Amazon Prime Video
Nominated for five BAFTAs, including Best Film, legal drama ‘The Mauritanian’ is directed by Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland). Due for release on 1 April 2021 it charts the incredible true story of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, whose 2015 memoir the film is based on, an alleged terrorist held without charge and subjected to torture inside the Guantanamo Bay detention camp for fourteen years. For his leading performance as Salahi, Tahar Rahim (The Serpent) has received BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations while Jodie Foster (The Accused) won a Golden Globe for her supporting role as defence attorney Nancy Hollander who decides to fight his corner.
Netflix
Set for release on 2 April 2020 ‘Concrete Cowboy’, a dramatic Western featuring Idris Elba (Beasts of No Nation), Caleb McLaughlin (Stranger Things) and Jharrel Jerome (When They See Us) follows a teenager from the big city of Detroit, Michigan to his estranged father in Philadelphia to learn the ways of the local urban cowboys.
Disney+
Winner of two Golden Globes from four nominations, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, and nominated for seven BAFTAs and six Oscars, including Best Film and Best Picture, respectively, is the critically acclaimed drama ‘Nomadland’. Streaming from 30 April 2021, Frances McDormand (North Country) leaves home to travel the American West as a nomad in this mesmerising tale of hope.
In Scotland I attended Dunfermline High School from 2010 to 2016 and Edinburgh Napier University from 2016 to 2020, emerging with two Advanced Higher and five Higher qualifications from the former and graduating with an undergraduate bachelor of arts honours degree in journalism from the latter. After two years away from further education due to the coronavirus pandemic, I'm going to be studying the MFA Photography course at York St John University in England from 2022 to 2024. I've achieved The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Bronze) Award and received grade five level certification for electronic keyboard from Trinity College London. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, writing, watching television series, listening to music and going to the cinema as well as catching up with friends, travelling by railway and hostelling overnight and overindulging in food and drinks in a pub or restaurant then having to go to the gym to burn it all off again.
By studying journalism and photography, my aim of practicing photojournalism professionally will hopefully be once step closer. Both are partial artforms requiring the rest of the work to be undertaken by the audience, the specialism of photojournalism, however, providing each of its two parts with greater context. Exploring photographic techniques (aerial, timelapse, editing) through a variety of journalistic styles (features, poetry, songwriting) will allow me to develop my portfolio, hone my camera skillset and narrow my focus further in anticipation of working life. Without a global pandemic to deal with this time. Fingers crossed.
