And the Best Picture Oscar goes to… the film that reaches the ‘magic number’

Filmmaker Alison Bagnall (Buffalo '66, The Dish & the Spoon) on the year in movies, from The Brutalist, to Wicked, Anora and Demi Moore's performance in The Substance.

The surrealist who made “Twin Peaks,” “Blue Velvet” and “Lost Highway” got his start as a painter at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

The crowdfunded, independent film is the brainchild of a Sun Valley High School alum.