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VIDEO ESSAY: Who Should Win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

Awards

They’ve all won Oscars already. Who deserves to win another? Let the footage tell the tale.

By Kevin B. Lee
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January 24, 2013 9:43 PM
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Festivals

If nothing else, the new 4K restoration of the late "Once Upon a Time in America" proves the necessity of film preservation. This essential new cut of Sergio Leone’s last film was re-assembled from newly rediscovered footage long thought lost.