Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 8:34PM With the 95th Academy Awards wrapped, it's time to look to the future. We already talked about what's next for last season's most honored directors so let's turn to our favourite subject: Actresses. What's in store for the recently nominated? Read on...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 at 12:00PM By Ben Miller
It's that time of year again! Every year since 2017 (minus 2020, when they didn't show clips), this is the piece I most look forward to writing. The Oscars always throw a few curveballs with their clip choices. They certainly made some choices this year. Let's rank the clips 20 to 1.
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20. Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans
19. Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once
18. Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All At Once
For all three of these performers, their roles had big showy moments that were tailor-made for Oscar clips. Instead, they went with odd choices...
Monday, March 13, 2023 at 8:06PM by Nathaniel R
"L Ron Hubba Hubba"
Like, Eric, who felt joyfully optimistic about the Oscars after the 95th Academy Awards, wrapped, I also had a good night. Did you? Overall it was a well produced, well paced, quite entertaining, and often moving night with good speeches and the requisite history being made. Now, in point of fact, history is always made at the Oscars. Each year of an institutional annual event that is super consistent in its approach (far more so than say the Grammys, BAFTAs, and Emmys which all change rules and category names so often that records and stats end up feeling blurry and mostly meaningless), will necessarily alter at least a few nooks and crannies of statistics and records. But we got a few true biggies last night: First Asian Best Actress winner, first film in half a century to take 75% of the acting prizes, first sci-fi action comedy to win the big prize.
But "it was a good time!" isn't much of a rundown of a three and a half hour glamorous event so herewith 8 things that stuck out for me, for better and worse, in no particular order...
Monday, March 13, 2023 at 2:16PM by Eric Blume
How can you sit through the Oscars, see each of your favorites lose in essentially every category, but still come away thinking it’s one of the best Oscars in history? That was the miracle of last night’s show.
Last year, the 94th Academy Awards, was Oscar’s nadir...
Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 4:00PM by Nathaniel R
"Everything Everywhere All At Once" was a sweeper
Everything Everywhere All At Once has turned into a steamroller late in awards season, winning guild prizes, recently snatching up all available Dorian Awards, taking all of the SAG awards it was eligible for, and now sweeping again at the Spirits. The Spirits are traditionally the final prize before Oscar (they used to even be held the day before Oscar!) though they don't always align with Hollywood's big night given their more indie-focused love. This time though there will surely be some overlap. The Daniels sci-fi-comedy-action-queer-family drama has won every single one of its seven categories at the annual Film Independent Spirit Awards and that's getting to be a habit, poor BAFTA showing as the exception. Given its dominance at the Spirits, no other film was able to win more than one prize. Despite an impressive showing in the nominations, for example, TÁR only took Best Cinematography since EEAAO wasn't nominated.
After the jump the winners and all the acceptance speeches...
