Oscars 2023 - Vulture

awards season Jan. 10, 2024

A Guide to Playing Off Winners at Awards ShowsInsiders on the art of telling long-winded celebrities to please GTFO.

By Matthew Jacobs

it’s an honor Jan. 10, 2024

The 50 Greatest Awards-Show Speeches of the Last 55 YearsThe best acceptance moments can make or break careers, cement fandoms, and spark blind items.

By Joe Reid and Chris Feil

awards season Jan. 7, 2024

The Golden Globes Do What the Oscars Weren’t Brave Enough ToAnd give out a “popular film” award.

By Justin Curto

oscar futures Jan. 5, 2024

How Will Barbie’s Screenplay Shake-up Affect the Awards Race?The Academy ruled this week that Greta Gerwig’s film will run in Adapted Screenplay, not Original. How does that impact the rest of the Oscar field?

By Nate Jones

oscar futures Dec. 22, 2023

Oscar Futures: The 12 Contenders of ChristmasLet’s get into the Christmas spirit by running down the 12 awards ho-ho-hopefuls with the best chance of nabbing Oscar’s Best Picture.

By Nate Jones

oscar futures Dec. 15, 2023

Can an Oscar Contender Be Too Timely?The Zone of Interest and American Fiction, two very different films, stake their claims on a Best Picture spot.

By Nate Jones

golden globes 2024 Dec. 11, 2023

The Biggest Snubs and Surprises of the 2024 Golden Globe NominationsGone is the old Globes insanity, replaced by something safe and respectable.

By Nate Jones and Jen Chaney

oscar futures Dec. 8, 2023

Can May December Meme Its Way Into Oscar Contention?Will an Academy that’s never nominated a Todd Haynes film for Best Picture get on the same wavelength as this blend of Ingmar Bergman and TruTV?

By Nate Jones

oscar futures Dec. 1, 2023

As Awards Season Picks Up, Critics Are Giving Martin Scorsese His FlowersThe New York Film Critics Circle sprang for Killers of the Flower Moon, which won both Best Picture and Best Actress.

By Nate Jones

oscar futures Nov. 24, 2023

Oscar Futures: Can The Color Purple Strike Gold?The mainstream crowd-pleaser feels destined to light up the holiday box-office, even if critics are more likely to be respectful than besotted.

By Nate Jones

oscar futures Nov. 17, 2023

Will Napoleon’s Oscar Campaign End in Victory?Ridley Scott’s historical epic charged into the race this week, with a surprise worthy of Austerlitz: The movie is … funny?

By Nate Jones

vulture festival Nov. 12, 2023

EGT Billy Porter Is Ready for His OOr at least an Oscar nomination so he can perform his Our Son “love duet” with Luke Evans.

By Zoe Guy

oscar futures Nov. 10, 2023

Which Oscar Contenders Got the Biggest Boost From the End of the Strike?With the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, Oscar campaigning can finally start in earnest. Which actors will do well on the trail?

By Nate Jones

oscar futures Oct. 20, 2023

Will a Martin Scorsese Movie Ever Win an Oscar Again?Killers of the Flower Moon feels like a contender, though there are concerns this august Osage downer could suffer the same fate as The Irishman.

By Nate Jones

oscars 2024 Oct. 19, 2023

The Actors Are on Strike, But the Awards Shows Go OnHere is our (extremely early) forecast for the biggest Oscar races this (very uncertain) year.

By Nate Jones

celebrity memoirs Oct. 12, 2023

Jada Pinkett-Smith Is the Queen of Contradictory SpinPinkett-Smith isn’t claiming to come clean. She’s just “taking back her narrative.”

By Fran Hoepfner

statuette of honor July 28, 2023

Michelle Yeoh’s Oscar Witnessed Her MarriageTo former Ferrari CEO Jean Todt after a 19-year engagement.

By Bella Arnold

rip June 30, 2023

Alan Arkin, Oscar-Winning Actor, Dead at 89“A loving husband, father, grand and great grandfather, he was adored and will be deeply missed.”

By Jason P. Frank

i’d like to thank nobody June 27, 2023

Angela Bassett Is Bigger Than the OscarsHonestly, how would they know?

By Tirhakah Love

award szn June 26, 2023

Angela Bassett Is Getting Her Long-Overdue OscarShe’s receiving an Academy Honorary Award at this year’s Governors Awards.

By Zoe Guy

awards chatter June 21, 2023

Academy Awards Reportedly in Preliminary Talks for a Stunt Category‘John Wick’ director Chad Stahelski says it could happen in the next three to four years.

By Bethy Squires

rip June 15, 2023

Glenda Jackson, Triple Crown of Acting Winner, Dead at 87She managed to be an actress, a politician, then an actress again.

By Jason P. Frank

thwip! June 2, 2023

Which Animated Voice Cast Had the Most Oscar Nominees?Across the Spider-Verse’s voice cast is noticeably stuffed with past Oscar winners and nominees. How does it stack up against other animated films?

By Nate Jones

national treasures Apr. 10, 2023

How Does the Phrase ‘Academy Award Winner Jack Black’ Sound to You?Bowser sings the blues.

By Rebecca Alter

vulture lists Mar. 20, 2023

8 Great Indian Documentaries to Watch Right NowThe country won its first nonfiction Oscar this year with The Elephant Whisperers, but there’s so much more to explore.

By Poulomi Das

backstories Mar. 16, 2023

Inside the Weirdest Oscars Performance of All Time“Those were Michelle’s hot-dog fingers.”

By Jason P. Frank

performance review Mar. 16, 2023

The Self-possession of Angela BassettShe has an unmatched ability to portray the interior complications and cultural reverberations of Black women’s anger — onscreen and off.

By Angelica Jade Bastién

ketchup Mar. 14, 2023

Who Is She? Bill Nighy’s Sylvanian Oscars Date Revealed.Everything we know about the Oscar nominee’s leporine plus-one.

By Rebecca Alter

tv ratings Mar. 13, 2023

A Good Night for the Oscars and The Last of UsBoth programs went head to head Sunday night — and both networks had reason to be happy about their ratings performances.

By Josef Adalian

the hollywood recorder Mar. 13, 2023

Jeremy, Rajat, and Justin Theroux Blaze the Oscars TrailAll through a roundtable about the “importance” of acting, social issues, and 100 percent real charitable causes.

By Hershal Pandya

oscars 2023 Mar. 13, 2023

Everything We Know About the Tiny Sliver of Australia in the Oscars Gift BagsIt is supposed to be a symbol of land conservation. Also there are 30-day refunds.

By Clio Chang

the little screens Mar. 13, 2023

How to Watch and Stream Every 2023 Oscar-Winning (and Nominated) MovieReflect on the power of cinema.

By Savannah Salazar

happy momday! Mar. 13, 2023

Michelle Yeoh’s Mommy Celebrates Her Historic Oscar WinFaceTiming from Malaysia after her daughter won Best Actress.

By Alejandra Gularte

oscars 2023 Mar. 13, 2023

Now, That Wasn’t So Hard, Was It?These back-to-basics Oscars rebuked not just last year’s disaster but the whole concept of “fixing” the Oscars.

By Bilge Ebiri

oscars 2023 Mar. 13, 2023

Everything Everywhere All at Once Didn’t Just Win the Oscars, It Dominated ThemInside the Academy Awards after-party, the industry took stock of the A24 movie’s historic trophy sweep.

By Chris Lee

backstage Mar. 13, 2023

Don’t Cancel Jamie Lee Curtis“Cancel me tomorrow! But not tonight.”

By Rebecca Alter

oscars 2023 Mar. 13, 2023

Anne Heche, Tom Sizemore, Paul Sorvino Left Off Oscars In MemoriamBut don’t worry — this time, the Academy had a QR code.

By Justin Curto

oscars 2023 Mar. 13, 2023

Why Everything Everywhere All at Once Won Best PictureThe A24 film benefited all season long from the sense that it was playing with house money.

By Nate Jones

jenny dupe Mar. 13, 2023

Jenny the Donkey’s Oscar Cameo Was All a FraudLast we checked, the Banshees of Inisherin star retired from public life.

By Zoe Guy

oscars 2023 Mar. 13, 2023

Rihanna Brought IG Boyfriend A$AP Rocky to the OscarsA$AP and Courtney B. Vance should hang out.

By Bethy Squires

oscars 2023 Mar. 13, 2023

Everything Everywhere All at Once Did It for the MommiesWinning more above-the-line Oscars than any other movie.

By Zoe Guy

highs and lows Mar. 13, 2023

The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2023 OscarsJenny the Donkey! David Byrne hot-dog fingers! An Oscar for Michelle Yeoh! What more could you want? (An Oscar for Angela Bassett.)

By Roxana Hadadi, Jackson McHenry, and Kathryn VanArendonk

oscars 2023 Mar. 13, 2023