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In this March 15, 2016 photo, Amani Ayad hangs all her Ebertfest passes around a statue of the late film critic outside the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Ill. Ayad has been a hostess for Roger Ebert's Film Festival guests every year since 2003. She and the more than dozen other hosts pick up their guests and take them back to the airport and to and from their hotel and to festival events. She ferried around a festival guest in 2014 whom she had never heard of before. Two years later Ayad would see the actress, Brie Larson, pick up the Academy Award for best actress for portraying a captive mother in "Room." (John Dixon/The News-Gazette via AP ) MANDATORY CREDIT
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