{"id":6560,"date":"2016-01-20T13:55:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T18:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=6560"},"modified":"2016-09-30T11:27:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T15:27:57","slug":"film-and-television-alum-henry-hughes-wins-oscar-nomination","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/film-and-television-alum-henry-hughes-wins-oscar-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Film and Television alum Henry Hughes wins Oscar nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COM alum <strong>Henry Hughes<\/strong> (&#8217;06) scored an Oscar nomination for his short film, &#8220;Day One,&#8221; which follows the story of an Afghan-American woman who joins the U.S. military as an interpreter and is sent to Afghanistan. On her first mission, she follows the troops as they hunt down a bomb-maker and must overcome the gender and cultural disparities to help a man&#8217;s pregnant wife when she goes into labor.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes was also the 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/academics\/what-we-do\/film-television\/the-redstone-film-festival\/\">Redstone <\/a>alumni winner last spring for same film, which was his thesis project at the American Film Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COM alum Henry Hughes (&#8217;06) scored an Oscar nomination for his short film, &#8220;Day One,&#8221; which follows the story of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10949,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[53,903,902,1276,901,900,246],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/6560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10949"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/6560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8355,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/6560\/revisions\/8355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6560"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=6560"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=6560"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=6560"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=6560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}