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Eleanor Barkhorn - Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel.
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Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel. She is a former producer for the Food channel. Before coming to The Atlantic, she was a reporter at the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, Mississippi. She graduated from Princeton University, where she majored in American literature and wrote her senior thesis about Oprah's Book Club. For her first two years out of college, she taught high school English with the Teach For America program.
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Oscars: When "Best Picture" Isn't the Year's Best Movie

By Eleanor Barkhorn

Mar 7 2010, 10:52 AM ET Comment




Atlantic Culture Channel columnist Alyssa Rosenberg and Atlantic.com contributor Latoya Peterson do Bloggingheads to discuss the topic of the weekend: The Oscars. They stay away from making predictions (for those, click here) and instead focus on broader issues like whether the Academy recognizes films with realistic takes on race and the history of science-fiction films at the Oscars. In this clip, they talk about whether the Best Picture award really goes to the best movie of the year— click here to watch the entire video.
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