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Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 11:30PM by Nathaniel R
We have a new Red Carpet Lineup to obsess over. And now a visual retrospective of the past eight years of Best Actress & Supporting Actresses on Oscar night...
Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 7:40PM The Oscars start at 8:00 but until then arrival madness...
• Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino were talking Times Up on the red carpet. My mind drifted to Marilyn Monroe, who they played together in a TV movie. Marilyn endured constant sexual harassment and I think she'd be proud of them.
• Adam Rippon wore a harness to the Oscars, doing his part to queer things up. We have a number of LGBTQ people / films up for Oscars tonight: Dee Rees and James Ivory (both in Adapted Screenplay), the Chilean nominatee A Fantastic Woman, and the Best Pic nominee Call Me By Your Name, and Rachel Morrison, the first woman nominated in Cinematography. More after the jump...
Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 6:59PM 
James Ivory wearing Timothée Chalamet's face on his custom tux. James Ivory has already won.
Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 1:36PM by Nathaniel R
How's your enthusiasm level? Mine is somewhere in the middle. I'm excited about how wide open the non big-six categories are, that Rita Moreno is reportedly going to show up to present an award in the exact same gown she wore when she won her Oscar for West Side Story (one of the all time best wins in supporting actress). But this is also the day where Lady Bird (my personal favorite) will lose everything. Oscar giveth. Oscar taketh away.
TONIGHT
I will be live-tweeting the ceremony tonight, if you'd like to follow along and we'll have lots of ceremony review posts on Monday and Tuesday (and probably Wednesday too)
In case you missed it - Final Predictions (article) and updated Oscar Charts. It's also your last chance to vote for reader's choice in Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actress, and Actor !
Just posted - FiLM BiTCH Awards gold, silver, and bronze medals in all the Oscar correlative categories
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Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 11:39AM by Eric Blume
The Russian Tourism Board won’t likely be sponsoring the film Red Sparrow, the new spy movie from Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence. Other than featuring some very chic ushankas on a very attractive cast, this film makes Russians look very nasty, just like we’ve always imagined them to be for the movies. Lawrence’s conception of the country illustrates his wonderfully corny, often thrilling, mysterious, and silly/serious approach into old-fashioned espionage that we don’t see much of nowadays.
Lawrence starts his film where he should: firmly on the face of his leading lady, Jennifer Lawrence, sporting a bangs-heavy brown wig. She’s a famous ballet dancer in Moscow, and the director steals a bit of the feverish tone of Black Swan in her early scenes. The plot unravels in a series of crosses, double-crosses, and reverses that include her involvement with a US spy played by Joel Edgerton...
