Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Oscars, SYW-cut On this episode of Show Your Work, we begin with vaccine image rehabilitation. Here in Canada, over the last ten days or so, there’s been a vaccine frenzy among a certain generation: Gen Xzeneca is what we’re calling it on social media. Here’s a selection of some By Lainey • Apr 29, 2021 03:40 pm
Equality Issues Intro for April 28, 2021 Dear Gossips, In my post about Daniel Kaluuya being mistaken for Leslie Odom Jr yesterday in the Oscars virtual press room, I wrote that the journalist who asked him the question was repping the Sunday Times in the UK which last week was called out for publishing a piece seemingly By Lainey • Apr 28, 2021 10:01 am
Oscars 2021 Daniel Kaluuya, a Bad Question, and a Royal Connection Oscar night was a great night for Daniel Kaluuya. He won an Oscar for his performance in Judas and the Black Messiah, people LOVED his acceptance speech, and there was a party afterwards and I hope he had a great time and didn’t think much about what we’re By Lainey • Apr 27, 2021 12:24 pm
TV Updates Sussexes > Oscars Early Oscar ratings have been revealed and while there may be a slight bump up when the final numbers are released today, it’s not like there’s going to be a dramatic increase. Last year the Oscars brought in 23.6 million viewers, which at the time was an By Lainey • Apr 27, 2021 10:39 am
Style Regina King: Oscar Best Everything EVERYTHING! So let’s back it up a couple of months, maybe longer, when Oscar show producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher, and Steven Soderbergh conceive the show open – they want it to feel cinematic, they want it to feel like a one-shot, a scene that celebrates the best of film, By Lainey • Apr 26, 2021 01:54 pm
Oscars 2021 LaKeith Stanfield: Oscar Best Dressed (Duana) There was no contest. From the moment I saw those shots, there was absolutely no contest. Did you see Lakeith Stanfield last night?! Look, while we’ve all been pointing out that women on the red carpet should be #AskedMore than just what they’re wearing first and only, we By Duana • Apr 26, 2021 01:22 pm
Oscars 2021 Oscar Overall Best – Daniel Kaluuya Well, it’s been a few hours and no sleep – time for me to contradict myself. Remember when I said I wish there were more people who were just entertaining presences, whether they were Oscar contenders or not? Maybe even people who were overtly *not* nominees, just as promises for By Duana • Apr 26, 2021 12:58 pm
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
