Culture
The Brazilian Director Who’s Up for Multiple Oscars
I want to start with Recife, the setting for this film. How does your home town fit into the history of filmmaking in Brazil? A hundred…
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Oscars
Culture
The 2026 Oscar Nominations and What Should Have Been Picked
Wes Anderson (“The Phoenician Scheme”) Ryan Coogler (“Sinners”) Kleber Mendonça Filho (“The Secret Agent”) Josh Safdie (“Marty Supreme”)…
Culture
Clear frontrunner to win Best Actor Oscar emerges as odds soar
Timothée Chalamet’s chances of winning the Oscar for Best Actor have soared following his recent Golden Globe victory. Chalamet won the…
Culture
The Weirdly Refreshing Honesty of the Oscars of TikTok
For the longest time, I kept myself from joining TikTok. Social media, I figured, was already kind of a problem for me. I was heavily…
Culture
Stunt Design Becomes a New Oscars Award Category
There will soon be a new category at the Oscars: achievement in stunt design. Starting with movies released in 2027, for the ceremony the…
Culture
How the Oscar Race Got as Messy as “Conclave”
Stop me if you’ve seen this one. A committee of august personages convenes, with much pomp and circumstance, to choose the best of their…
Culture
How Rotten Tomatoes ranks the Best Picture Oscar nominees
The nominations for the 97th Academy Awards were unveiled on Thursday after much anticipation—but how do the Best Picture nominees stack…
Culture
The 2025 Oscar Nominations and What Should Have Made the List
With the announcement of this year’s Oscar nominations, the members of the Academy have, in effect, responded to the natural and political…
Politics
How the Academy Awards Have Adapted to Catastrophe
Until two weeks ago, Oscar pundits were describing this awards season as “weird.” Unlike last year’s slate, dominated by Barbenheimer, the…
Culture
Who and What Should Be Nominated for the 2025 Oscars
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Wednesday that, because of the devastating wildfires raging in and around Los…