Earlier this week the entire film world was on the edge of their seats as the full list of Oscar nominees was announced on Tuesday, January 25. Among the many films nominated was Exit Through The Gift Shop a mockumentary directed by popular British graffiti artist Banksy.
The film was nominated for Best Documentary Feature and will go up against Gasland, Inside Job, Restrepo, and Waste Land at the Oscar’s.
Released in the U.S. in April 2010, Exit Through The Gift Shop profiles a French immigrant who travels to Los Angeles and becomes enveloped in the street art culture and meeting Banksy.
In conjunction with the UK release of Exit Through The Gift Shop, Banksy also created a pop-up exhibition in London titled Exit Through The Gift Shop. The film was also shown at last year’s Sundance Film Festival in Utah.
The 83rd Annual Academy Awards show will air on February 27.
What the fuck is this doing on a hip hop site?
Graffity is one of the original 4 elements of Hip Hop.. you should know, “Banksy”!
You’re retarded for asking that. Good documentary btw.
Fuck ya’ll.
Ya’ll trying to tell me Banksy is doing it for hip hop? cause that’s retarted.
haha at first I thought the same thing…, Banksy. But in reality, what’s more hip-hop than getting over?
I still haven’t seen Style Wars, but graf flicks are important. Everybody who visits this website should watch the other seminal graf film from the ’80s – Wild Style. It’s shot cinema veriter style on 16mm, and that adds to its authenticity. All the B-Boyz, writers and emcees/DJs were real, there was no phoney actors like in Breakin’. It’s one of the all time greatest movies, no one can afford to miss it.
Claims in the film Gasland have been widely documented to be untrue. See the investigative documents for yourself here: http://anga.us/learn-the-facts/the-truth-about-gasland