Oscar® Sundays

This ongoing series celebrates films that have been honored at the Academy Awards.

The fall season of Oscar® Sundays was programmed by Adam Piron, director of the Sundance Institute's Indigenous Program. He writes, “Growing up as a Native American in the Southwest, I always knew I had something of a unique vantage point when it came to watching Westerns. In many ways, it felt like I saw them from behind the projected screen, my perspective inverted from the house audience. With my journey into cinephilia, this was a genre I always wrestled with, appreciating the cinematic beauty and technical mastery found within it while also admittedly unable to fully immerse myself into some of the uglier histories. Still, whenever I see these films, I feel like I'm seeing someplace that's not too far off from the horizon of where I called home, the land itself a reassuring main character of the genre, its arc found in each film and the history they explored.”