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It's finally here. Have you seen the set for tonight's Oscars? It's very Bond film swirl, with electric blue futurism. The designer likens it to...

Credit: Courtesy David Korins Designs

a magical portal into the future, in which we trade in the currency of elegance and electricity

What'cha think? Any last minute Oscar fantasies, dreams or fears? Do tell?! I predicted The Power of the Dog but am dreading the very real possibility of CODA going three for three. It's not that I hate CODA (it's sweet and tear-jerking) it's just that it's not remotely deserving of the highest film award in the land. But we'll see. If only we could feel the electricity of the opening of the Best Film Editing envelope, the most suspenseful category outside of Actress and Picture. But alas...

related posts & oscar volleys

Best Limited Performances, Breakthrough Actors, and more...

by Nathaniel R

I'm currently in a mad-dash effort to wrap up the 2021 film year before the Oscars. This means our own awards need to be completed. On the Film Bitch Award pages you've already seen the Oscar parallel categories but now the "Extra" Acting categories are complete...

• Best Actress in a Limited Role
• Best Actor in a Limited Role
• Breakthrough Performer
• Best Juvenile Performance (Under 18)
• Best Vocal of MoCap Performance (new category)
• Best Ensemble
• Best Casting 

So click on over for odes to Vanessa Bayer, Ana de Armas, Harriet Samson Harris, Moses Ingram, Britne Oldford, David Clavel, Bradley Cooper, Barry Keoghan, Chris Messina, Channing Tatum, Stephanie Beatriz, Mike Rianda, Woody Norman, David Alvarez, Simu Liu, and many more...

Won and Done? An Oscars Rewind

by Mark Brinkerhoff

All three of Will Smith's nominations have been for biopics. His first was Ali (2001). If he wins will that be the end of his Oscar journey?

We’re a mere two days from the 94th Academy Awards, and it’s looking likely that at least one of the probable acting winners will win the coveted Oscar after multiple nominations. Equally possible: For many “overdue” actors, winning an Oscar marks a turning point.   In 2020, TFE took a look back at the post-Oscar win trajectories of Golden Age and modern Hollywood stars alike: Gregory Peck, Shirley MacLaine, and the Susans—Hayward and Sarandon—all of whom finally won Oscars on their fifth (and to-date final) nominations. 

Among the current acting nominees, two three-time Oscar nominees have yet to win...

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Reader's Choice: Who SHOULD win the Oscars?

by Nathaniel R

You've read our final predictions and Oscar volleys discussing who might win Sunday night. Meanwhile the TFE readership was encouraged to vote daily on our Oscar chart pages over the past month about who SHOULD win the Oscars.

Here are the results in all categories. Some of this was surprising to us, some expected...

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Tweetweek

It's funny because it's true.

one of the craziest parts of hollywood is learning that most celebrity’s email addresses are like, cateblanchett @ gmail . com

— Johnny LaZebnik (@jlazebnik) March 21, 2022

 a couple minutes of amusing distraction for you via curated tweets awaits after the jump...

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