Oscars 2021 The Devil’s Own Oscar Presenters We were told that the actors presenting in the Oscar movie would be playing themselves, and as I wrote last week, this would require more of a lift than in years past when they’d show up and read from a prompter and open the envelope. We saw several presenters By Lainey • Apr 26, 2021 12:08 pm
Oscars 2021 The Oscar Couple: Riz Ahmed and Fatima Farheen Mirza If you were watching the Oscar pre-show on E!, I think you know what I’m talking about, right? Riz Ahmed and his wife, Fatima Farheen Mirza, at the arrivals wall making their red carpet debut. In case you missed it, Riz and Fatima were quietly married last year. He By Lainey • Apr 26, 2021 11:42 am
Oscars 2021 Glenn Close’s Butt: An Oscar Okay, look. Let’s all say what we already knew – the ‘musical trivia’ sequence in the show was odd, in that they should have been doing crowd-work earlier or more often; 15 minutes before the end of the show seemed like a really strange time to just start making jokes? By Duana • Apr 26, 2021 11:24 am
Oscars 2021 The Oscars needed more Alan Kim We are not going to yell at each other about this one because it’s a truth for all: Alan Kim was the delight of this award season and we could have used more of him during the show. It looked promising at the beginning, well before Alan even showed By Lainey • Apr 26, 2021 11:13 am
Oscars 2021 H.E.R. Oscar Triumph & Leslie Odom Jr’s Contender Okay, let’s have it. How did we feel about the musical performances being in the pre-show? Pros & Cons? Cons – it’s still kind of a weird enterprise, isn’t it? The live performance that isn’t a competition – that is, the songs are in competition, but the performances By Duana • Apr 26, 2021 10:37 am
Oscars 2021 Youn Yuh-jung: The Oscar Asian Mom At this point it wasn’t going to be a surprise that Youn Yuh-jung, if given the chance, would give one of the best acceptance speeches of the night. This is the woman who told British people they were “very snobbish” after they gave her a BAFTA. If you missed By Lainey • Apr 26, 2021 09:57 am
Oscars 2021 Amanda Seyfried Comes To Play This woman is underappreciated. Full stop. I don’t mean as an actress, although possibly that too. But consider this – when you google Mank (after you say “MANK!” to yourself, as is obligatory) do you know what’s listed first under ‘People Also Ask’? “Is Mank Boring?” Imagine that’s By Duana • Apr 26, 2021 09:16 am
Oscars 2021 Carey Mulligan’s Oscar Playbook I have no idea what Carey Mulligan’s feelings are about her awards show season back in 2010 when she was nominated for An Education. She was 100% the new kid, and I don’t know if she was happy to be along for the ride, or thought it was By Duana • Apr 26, 2021 08:27 am
Oscars 2021 Emerald Fennell brings “shady pottery teacher” vibes to the Oscars Emerald Fennell won her first Oscar last night, taking Best Original Screenplay for Promising Young Woman, one of the most deserved wins of the night. Seriously, that script is BONKERS good. It’s three movies at once and re-watching peels it back so you can see each movie playing out By Sarah • Apr 26, 2021 08:08 am
Oscars 2021 Viola Davis asked for McQueen Here’s the complicated thing about that frequently-repeated stat about Viola Davis and all her Oscar nominations. In case you hadn’t heard, she is the most-nominated Black actress in history, with four. And as she has shared, and I’m paraphrasing, if she’s getting nominated all the time, By Lainey • Apr 26, 2021 07:22 am
Oscars 2021 Andra Day’s Initial Oscar Outing I think it’s probably for the best that this year went the weird, semi-corporate way that it did. If it had been one of the ‘regular’ Oscar seasons, one of the narratives that would have been pushed loud and long (even more than it was) would have been the By Duana • Apr 26, 2021 07:06 am
Oscars 2021 Chloe Zhao: Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar Successor The hope, of course, is that one day we won’t have to mention the how remarkable it is – for a woman to win Best Director at the Oscars. And that she’s a woman of colour. But that day has yet to come. So it’s history: Chloe Zhao By Lainey • Apr 26, 2021 06:26 am
Oscars 2021 Oscars Scorecard: It’s something! This year, I attempted to guess every winner of the “Oddscars”—or as they shall henceforth be known, the “total chaos Oscars”—and I did pretty okay. I got 15 categories out of 23 right, which Professor Calculator tells me is 65% correct. Of the 8 misses, 7 were from By Sarah • Apr 26, 2021 06:07 am
Oscars 2021 The Oscars: A Movie Review In the weeks leading up the Oscars, we were promised that the show would feel like a film, on live television, with the actors playing themselves. And that was part of the intrigue – what would that look like, and how would they pull it off? I mean… I think they By Lainey • Apr 26, 2021 04:58 am
Oscars 2021 Intro for April 26, 2021 Dear Gossips, These were the COVID Oscars – and we have a LOT to talk about, including the ending, which we’ll get to for sure. But let’s start with the look of it all, because as I wrote last week, fashion was expected to make a comeback at the By Lainey • Apr 26, 2021 03:33 am
What Else What Else? Wait…what? Huh? People online are rumouring that Taika Waititi and Rita Ora might be dealing with each other. And that it’s possible she has a role in Thor: Love and Thunder. Which, as Sarah has taught us, might be an issue for Marvel because they’re all about By Lainey • Apr 23, 2021 04:28 pm
