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  1. gold rush
    Who’s the Most Overdue for an Oscar Right Now?For some, the most-nominated people are the ones who “deserve” to win. But that’s an awfully clinical way of looking at this! Ever heard of vibes?
    By Nate Jones and Joe Reid
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    Maestro
    Five Lingering Questions After the OscarsIncluding, How can Bradley Cooper finally win an Oscar?
    By Nate Jones
  3. oscars 2024
    Why Emma Stone Beat Lily Gladstone for Best ActressThe Poor Things star’s second Oscar was the most unexpected development on a night that mostly went chalk.
    By Nate Jones
  4. my academy awards
    All 53 of This Year’s Oscar-Nominated Movies and Shorts, RankedThe feature-length and short films that were nominated in 2024 are, in the aggregate, the most impressive (to me) in years.
    By Joe Reid
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    How Do You Joke About The Zone of Interest?When Oscar host Jimmy Kimmel steps out for his monologue on Sunday, I’ll only be thinking about one thing.
    By Nate Jones
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    81st Golden Globe Awards - Press Room
    Why Did Pundits Underestimate Cillian Murphy?For much of the 2024 Oscars race, pundits have been skeptical of Cillian Murphy’s chances of taking home Best Actor. Why?
    By Nate Jones
  7. awards szn
    The Producers Guild Awards (Guess What?) Loved OppenheimerAlso The Bear, Beef, and Succession. You’re shocked.
    By Jason P. Frank
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    How (Almost) Every Best Picture Nominee Can End Up With a TrophyThe participation-trophy ethos is alive and well at the Oscars.
    By Nate Jones
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    Secrets of the Oscars Class PhotoWhat does it take to produce this image? We spoke to the Academy’s special events wrangler to find out.
    By Nate Jones
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    It’s Time to Talk About the Oscar Best Actress NomineesAs we get into the thick of the season, two women appear to have pulled ahead.
    By Nate Jones
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    Why Maestro Became the Oscar Villain (and Oppenheimer Didn’t)Everyone is rooting against a big, starry awards-season movie — for reasons that have nothing to do with the film’s politics.
    By Nate Jones
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    How Mad Should I Be About Barbie’s Oscar Nominations?How to complain about the 2024 Academy Awards (without everyone making fun of you).
    By Nate Jones
  13. awards season
    A Guide to Playing Off Winners at Awards ShowsInsiders on the art of telling long-winded celebrities to please GTFO.
    By Matthew Jacobs
  14. it’s an honor
    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
  15. oscars 2024
    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
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    All 54 Oscar-Nominated Movies (and Shorts), RankedSome are great, some are good, and some are genuinely terrible. Cue the montage music, because we’re starting from the bottom.
    By Joe Reid
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    Could the Oscars Actually Be Good This Year?The 2023 Academy Awards are returning to an old formula — one that works not despite its imperfections but because of them.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Every Type of Oscar-Acceptance Speech, RankedFrom printed lists (boo!) to giggle fits to self-indulgent spectacles, we ranked 19 categories of Oscar-acceptance speeches.
    By Joe Reid
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    A Brief History of the Oscars’ Love-Hate Relationship With ShakespeareUntil Spielberg’s West Side Story, no Shakespeare adaptation had broken into Best Picture for 53 years.
    By Joe Reid
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    5 Extravagant Stunts the Oscars Will Never Try Again (But Should)Don’t you want an Academy Awards that puts on a show? Don’t you want a high-kicking Debbie Allen and Tyson Beckford? Don’t you want the Oscars back?
    By Joe Reid
  21. chat room
    Minari Director Lee Isaac Chung on His Oscar Nominations and Existential Angst“So much of my past 10 years with my career not going so well was invested in coming to peace with that.”
    By E. Alex Jung
  22. oscars 2021
    The One Scene That Best Represents Each 2021 Best Picture NomineeHere are our picks for the singular scenes that Oscar should use to represent each Best Picture nominee at this year’s Academy Awards.
    By Chris Feil
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    Marcia Gay Harden Answers Every Question We Have About Her Pollock Oscars WinWithout a SAG or Golden Globe nomination, the actor’s win was a long shot. Twenty years later, she reminisces with Vulture about the night.
    By Matthew Jacobs
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    Who’s Really Winning This Year’s ‘Oddscars’?Establishment Hollywood is in denial.
    By Mark Harris
  25. onward and upward
    Hollywood’s Six Pathways from Supporting Parts to StardomHow some of the most beloved character actors became some of the most beloved leads.
    By Joe Reid
  26. chat room
    Minari’s Han Yeri Wanted a Korean Actress to Play Monica, Even If It Wasn’t Her“Monica seemed to be the most Korean. I was hoping it wouldn’t be someone who grew up in the States.”
    By E. Alex Jung
  27. the gold rush
    Revisiting That Infamous Burning-Car Moment From the Crash OscarsFifteen years later, Kathleen “Bird” York says she never expected her big Oscar moment would live on in the image of a flaming sedan.
    By Mark Blankenship
  28. mad men
    What Is a White Man Mad About in This Oscar-Nominated Movie?A helpful guide to the many pissed-off white dudes in this year’s Academy-recognized films.
    By Rachel Handler
  29. the gold rush
    A Historic Battle for the Animated Oscar BeginsThis year, a record number of animated movies are competing against Disney for an Academy Award in the feature category. Can an indie win?
    By Chris Lee
  30. the gold rush
    Bombshell Director Says Minidress Scene Is Most Excruciating Thing He’s Filmed“There were good arguments about how disturbing Roger’s breathing [should] be,” says Jay Roach. “I wanted the breathing to be unmistakably monstrous.”
    By Chris Lee
  31. To Catherine, Regarding the Absurdities of the California Gold Rush, 1849, […]My Dearest Catherine, We are heading by caravan to San Francisco, ready to mine for gold. Everyone is telling wild tales about how much gold […]
    By Brian Boone