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
Oscars 2021 Intro for April 23, 2021 Dear Gossips, It’s Oscar weekend. And the Oscars will not be Zoomed. This is a live event, people are showing up, people will be dressed. The whole thing will feel like a movie, on television – a television movie? – in real time, so kinda sorta like a play too. And By Lainey • Apr 23, 2021 09:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Predicting the “Oddscars” Last month, I did my first full slate of Oscar nomination predictions and I didn’t do too bad, nailing 77 out of 105 predictions (73% is good enough, as I used to tell my math teachers). But now I am here to predict the WINNERS, which is actually easier, By Sarah • Apr 22, 2021 12:48 pm
