Top Reads Sunday Service At The Church Of Kenergy Let me start off this post of unbridled joy with a bit of crabbiness. Indulge me, we haven’t slept, it’s been a long night, and that’s before detours down any of several Kate Middleton wormholes. However: I saw more than one hot take on the Ryan Gosling By Duana • Mar 11, 2024 02:39 pm
Bad Style What color is Lupita’s dress? Oscars fashion controversy! Lupita Nyong’o wore a custom Armani Prive gown to the 2024 Oscars with a feathered peplum and hem, which was 1) a dress originally designed for 2020 but Lupita ended up hanging onto it till now and 2) supposedly a “tribute” to her iconic 2014 Oscar By Lainey • Mar 11, 2024 01:41 pm
Oscars 2024 Witches and Colour at the Oscars As noted in my post about achromatic looks at the Oscars, there wasn’t much colour, not at the awards proper and not even at Vanity Fair, which is why those who did go with colour popped even more. For Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, it was colour and character. By Lainey • Mar 11, 2024 01:18 pm
Oscars 2024 Far, Far Away From A Barbie World By now, the sting of the snub is gone away – nobody, not one person or hopeful 8 year old child, believed the throwaway ‘Best Picture’ nomination for Barbie was going to be anything more than a cute clip montage. The acting nods – I don’t agree with it, but there’ By Duana • Mar 11, 2024 12:56 pm
Oscars 2024 It was still a historic night for Native representation So, Lily Gladstone lost Best Actress to Emma Stone, but you know, last night was still a historic night for Native American representation at the Oscars. Scott George and the Osage Singers performed their nominated original song, “Wahzhazhe (A Song for my People)” live on stage, at an event where By Sarah • Mar 11, 2024 12:40 pm
Oscars 2024 Why can’t actresses be friends? Speaking of the five-presenter format and when it works, here is an example of when it DOESN’T work—the actresses. The matchups were much more awkward, the intros, more stilted, and even when real-life friendship does exist, they didn’t take advantage of it. Let’s start By Sarah • Mar 11, 2024 12:19 pm
Royals Oscar Intermission: Kate Waldo’s Mother’s Day Mess As I write this at 330am in Los Angeles, Duana and I are screaming in our hotel room over what just crossed the wires, in old people speak, lol. I’ve just woken up from a 45 minute nap because I am exhausted from three days straight of Oscar television By Lainey • Mar 11, 2024 11:13 am
Oscars 2024 What Does A Lapel Pin Say? The Artists4Ceasefire pins worn at the Oscars last night actually debuted at (or before) the Grammy Awards, and are representative of a group of artists petitioning Joe Biden to ask for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, after the 30,000 lives lost and over 70,000 injured in Gaza and By Duana • Mar 11, 2024 11:05 am
Oscars 2024 Greta, Sydney, and Three Couples: Achromatic Oscar Sarah taught us a new word last night: achromatic. It was an achromatic night in fashion at the Oscars – very little colour, to Duana’s disappointment. Even when there was colour it was the lightest shade of whatever colour was chosen. There was a lot of black and white and By Lainey • Mar 11, 2024 10:16 am
Oscars 2024 Just dudes being bros This year, the Oscars brought back the five-presenter format for the acting awards, in which previous winners personally introduced each of the five nominees. It’s a fun piece of living Oscar history, even if I would ALSO like to see clips of the nominated performances (make the show By Sarah • Mar 11, 2024 09:19 am
Oscars 2024 Cord Jefferson Is Our New King When I say ‘our’, here, I am of course referring to screenwriters. TV writers, more precisely. Oh, and internet writers. Let me back up for a little biography. You already know that Cord Jefferson won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for American Fiction, and that, as he has mentioned By Duana • Mar 11, 2024 08:25 am
Oscars 2024 Da’Vine Joy Randolph: Prepared and Sincere Like Robert Downey, Jr., it was pretty much a clean sweep this award season for Da’Vine Joy Randolph. Like RDJ, she was prepared – you don’t win everything right up to the Oscars without at least allowing for the possibility that it might happen on the biggest night. But By Lainey • Mar 11, 2024 07:35 am
Oscars 2024 Fashion Dudes Here, now, is a selection of Very Handsome Men for you. First, let us acknowledge Try Guy Eugene Lee Yang, who voiced a character in the nominated animated film, Nimona. He is my Best Dressed Guy of Oscar night. That red tuxedo dress is EXQUISITE. It recalls Billy Porter’s By Sarah • Mar 11, 2024 07:16 am
Oscars 2024 Zendaya is an AI “Zendaya is an AI” is not my line, it’s Duana’s. And it’s how she described Zendaya on the Oscar group chat we had going during the show because…well… there’s only so many ways we can say that Zendaya is UNREAL. Unreal to the point where, By Lainey • Mar 11, 2024 06:00 am
Oscars 2024 Congrats to Robert Downey Jr … I suppose? So this is one of those wins that wasn’t a surprise, but that everyone was generally on board for, right? Robert Downey, Jr. has won all the awards leading up to this one, he’s universally acknowledged to have been excellent in the role, so this win should have By Duana • Mar 11, 2024 05:36 am
Oscars 2024 Intro for March 11, 2024 Dear Gossips, Finally, this interminable award season is over. It’s done! We can stop talking about the Oscars for at least two months! Until Cannes kicks off in May, anyway! Zendaya can go inside at last! We’ll be picking apart the good, the bad, and the WTF all By Sarah • Mar 11, 2024 05:12 am
