A strange year for Oscars, a replay of ‘Crip Camp’

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Awards columnist Scott Feinberg explains why this is such a strange year for the Oscars, and how the event’s producers are attempting to keep the glitz and glamour for this year’s ceremony. The Business also replays a conversation with directors Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht about their now Oscar-nominated documentary “Crip Camp.”

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. In 1971, when sound designer Jim
0:07.7	Lovrecht was 15, he had a summer of love kind of experience at a camp for disabled kids,
0:13.3	a place that fostered a spirit of history-changing activism. He shared his memories with his
0:19.0	friend, filmmaker Nicole Noonam, and they agreed.
0:22.0	This could make a good movie.
0:23.5	They didn't anticipate that some VIP backers would think so, too.
0:27.6	What a sentence to be able to say.
0:29.2	We knew we could partner with the Obama's, Barack and Michelle.
0:33.5	It does still sound pretty amazing, you know, every time we say it.
0:37.7	This week, we're revisiting our conversation with co-directors Noonum and Lebrecht, who was
0:42.5	born with Spina Bifida and uses a wheelchair.
0:45.5	They tell us about making their Netflix film Crip Camp, which is now Oscar nominated for
0:49.7	Best Documentary.
0:51.2	But first and all new special Oscars banter for this strangest of award seasons.
0:56.9	Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.
1:04.3	I am joined by my special award season banter buddy, Scott Feinberg of the Hollywood reporter.
1:09.5	Hello, Scott.
1:10.2	Hey, thanks for having me.
1:11.5	A pleasure. I don't know if the awards season has been a pleasure this year. You are normally
1:16.2	running all over the place. I don't know, have you run anywhere or have you done a pretty much
1:21.7	totally virtual Zoom award season? Yeah, no, it's been very weird to go through not only just an award season, but the longest
1:31.1	award season ever without actually having to leave my apartment.
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