A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher of The Washington Post, Kay Graham (Meryl Streep) and its hard-driving editor, Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government in publishing the Pentagon Papers.

The Pentagon Papers, officially titled United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. The papers were released by Daniel Ellsberg, who had worked on the study; they were first brought to the attention of the public on the front page of The New York Times in 1971.[1][2] A 1996 article in The New York Times said that the Pentagon Papers had demonstrated, among other things, that the Johnson Administration "systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress".[3]

More specifically, the papers revealed that the U.S. had secretly enlarged the scope of its actions in the Vietnam War with the bombings of nearby Cambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, and Marine Corps attacks, none of which were reported in the mainstream media.[4]

For his disclosure of the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg was initially charged with conspiracy, espionage, and theft of government property, but the charges were later dismissed after prosecutors investigating the Watergate Scandal discovered that the staff members in the Nixon White House had ordered the so-called White House Plumbers to engage in unlawful efforts to discredit Ellsberg.[5]

In June 2011, the entirety of the Pentagon Papers was declassified and publicly released.[6]

This is going to a very awkward Oscars with all the sexual harassment/assault exposes happening right now.

I think Kevin Spacey's debacle may affect Call Me By Your Name. It wouldn't look good for them to heavily reward a film about a ~questionable~ relationship right now.

This is going to a very awkward Oscars with all the sexual harassment/assault exposes happening right now.

I think Kevin Spacey's debacle may affect Call Me By Your Name. It wouldn't look good for them to heavily reward a film about a ~questionable~ relationship right now.

You're being far too sensible. People don't think like that. People generally want to stay away from things that will spark controversy, and Call Me By Your Name will be that hot potato.

We will see. I hope you're wrong but who knows.

I hope I'm wrong too. I firmly believe in separating art from real life.

Awards shows are real life.

These award shows are awarding art.

Hard to separate the two. I say creating and delivering art is real life. So is awarding art.

Campaigning budget, people networking, name recognition, social and political climate, voters' perception/ideology are just some factors essential or influential to the vote.

Hard to separate the two. I say creating and delivering art is real life. So is awarding art.

Campaigning budget, people networking, name recognition, social and political climate, voters' perception/ideology are just some factors essential or influential to the vote.

Yes, these days people can spin anything any way they want to. I tend to keep it simple. Films are art. Awards for films are for the art.