Gorgessity Constance Wu’s marigold & Henry Golding’s cheese Crazy Rich Asians only came out six months ago and since then it seems that CRA has been represented on every major carpet, capping off their run at the Oscars last night. We’ve already talked about Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan, and Constance Wu, with Jon M Chu, and By Lainey • Feb 25, 2019 12:52 pm
Oscars 2019 Chris Evans exists Regina King won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar – her first— for her role in If Beale Street Could Talk. Somehow, Chris Evans is now in almost every story about Regina King’s win because the man sat beside her mom and… looked in her direction a few times? Because he By Kathleen • Feb 25, 2019 11:25 am
Oscars 2019 King Regina There were a lot of “Queens” in attendance last night. Queen, the band. Queen Latifah. Olivia Coleman and Helen Mirren in spirit. The Queen of Wakanda, Angela Bassett. Billy Porter if we’re still saying “yasss Queen!” And then there was Regina King. Lainey schooled me that “Regina” means “Queen” By Kathleen • Feb 25, 2019 10:27 am
Oscars 2019 Melissa McCarthy Won’t Let Me I wanted to be annoyed. Melissa McCarthy was the long-shot nominee for a fantastic performance in Can You Ever Forgive Me, and even though I knew, and you knew, and she knew, that it was never going to happen, I wanted more people to treat it like it was By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 10:15 am
Oscars 2019 Rachel & Daniel together but not together at the Oscars Rachel Weisz was at the Oscars as a nominee last night for Best Supporting Actress for The Favourite and Daniel Craig was there as a presenter and they’re married so… you’d think they’d come together, right? They walked the carpet together not too long ago at the By Lainey • Feb 25, 2019 09:57 am
Oscars 2019 Stephan James’ Awards Season Hustle In October, I wrote “if you don’t already know Stephan James, you will soon.” He was weeks away from the release of Homecoming and If Beale Street Could Talk, his two breakout roles of 2018. A whole awards season later and Stephan James is definitely a name you know. By Kathleen • Feb 25, 2019 09:45 am
Oscars 2019 Rami Malek’s Epic One-Night Story God, that kiss was hot. We’ll get to the kiss, I promise. On Show Your Work, and here, I’ve wished nominees would prepare their speeches, have something to say if they get up there and win – not everyone can be flummoxed as adorably as Olivia Colman. But they By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 09:28 am
Award Season Campaigning Glenn Close still goes to the party Here’s my theory about Oscar dresses: if you’re a favourite to win, your Oscar fashion is going to be on the safe side. Because the pictures you take that night, in that outfit, are forever. They’ll be used for a long time. And you don’t want By Lainey • Feb 25, 2019 08:30 am
Top Reads We Don’t Deserve Best Actress Olivia Colman I really don’t understand Twitter sometimes. I know a statement like that makes me sound too young, naïve, sheltered and privileged to be allowed chocolate milk, let alone unaccompanied access to one of the internet’s most reliable joke factories that sometimes doubles as a dumpster fire. But look, By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 06:51 am
Oscars 2019 The Black Panther Wins: A long time coming “This has been a long time coming.” Ruth E Carter started her first Oscars acceptance speech with these seven words, and to me, they sum up all of Black Panther’s historic wins. It’s been a long time coming for black women behind-the-scenes in Hollywood to get By Kathleen • Feb 25, 2019 06:39 am
Oscars 2019 Michelle and Gemma: Crazy Rich Couture A quick aside before we get to Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan’s red carpet looks – remember all that business about fighting over presenters and the Academy telling people that if they presented at any other award shows, they wouldn’t be able to come to the Oscars? One of By Lainey • Feb 25, 2019 06:07 am
Oscars 2019 Sarah Paulson, Queen of the Not-Pretty Pinks You will not catch me complaining that the surprise trend colour of the night was hot pink. There were furrowed-brow debates on the pre-shows as experts discussed which would be the surprise colour of the night, earnestly wondering whether navy’s time had come or if it might By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 05:45 am
Oscars 2019 Do The Right Thing, Oscars The Oscars did right by Spike Lee in the Best Adapted Screenplay category. As we’ve established, it did not “do the right thing” in its choice for Best Picture. The most outspoken critic of Green Book’s win was Spike himself, who many outlets are reporting “stormed out” of By Kathleen • Feb 25, 2019 05:21 am
Top Reads Green Book is America’s Best Picture It’s not like we didn’t know it was coming. Awards season has been preparing us for the inevitable: Green Book as the 2019 Best Picture winner. America, and its almost comically disrespectful Black History Month of bad news, has been preparing us for this too. Since it won By Kathleen • Feb 25, 2019 04:54 am
Oscars 2019 The Academy is not ready for Netflix This was always going to be a possibility and from the moment the Oscar nominations were announced in January, I wondered if “the Academy’s solution might be to give Alfonso Cuaron and Roma their day in the director category but Best Picture…well…” Well. That is exactly what happened. By Lainey • Feb 25, 2019 04:35 am
Oscars 2019 Amy, Tina, and Maya MeanGirled the Academy You may think that term has been overused and doesn’t mean much anymore, but how often do you get to use it on the O.G.s anyway? As Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, and Tina Fey pointed out, they were not the Oscars hosts, despite being the first people By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 04:20 am
