Oscars 2022 Tropical Fruit Oscar Colours Beyoncé started it, of course. Obviously there’s much more discourse on that elsewhere, and obviously it’s not like anyone knew that ‘tennis ball’ was going to be the colour of the night. But leave it to this, the absolute hands-down weirdest Oscars ever to be the riot of By Duana • Mar 28, 2022 09:56 am
Oscars 2022 Billie and Zoë: The Oscars could use more cuteness Duana texted me right after this happened – Zoë Kravitz and Jake Gyllenhaal presented Best Original Song to Billie Eilish and Finneas for “No Time To Die” and after their acceptance speech, this happened: BILLIE AND ZOË JUMPING UP AND DOWN IM CRYING THEYRE SO CUTE #Oscar pic.twitter.com/4NDmCOlgTn By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 08:16 am
Oscars 2022 The power of anything but Netflix The anti-Netflix bias in the Academy is REAL. Sure, Netflix logs a lot of nominations, but the Academy is reluctant to hand them a Best Picture win. Apple, in fact, becomes the first streamer to win Best Picture with CODA, despite only being in the game for two years. Jane By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 07:45 am
Oscars 2022 Sebastian and Kodi: Easter candy men Soothing pastels, sweet pastels. Rest your eyeballs on these images of Sebastián Yatra and Kodi Smit-McPhee dressed in tuxedoes so pale they are bold, donning spring pastels and looking like a couple of Easter M&Ms. Yatra turned up in a cotton candy pink morning suit from Moschino, and By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 07:25 am
Oscars 2022 Ariana DeBose, Rita, and Anita Make History Do you ever wonder how Best Supporting Actress came to be the first award presented? I remember when I figured out that it was always a crowd-pleaser, because everyone in that category is largely there for having had a blast in a role that wasn’t about how pretty they By Duana • Mar 28, 2022 07:00 am
Oscars 2022 Troy, Yuh-jung, and CODA: Love and Kindness at the Oscars As Sarah just wrote in the previous post, there is a lot of work that has to be done in the days and months ahead to fix the Oscars – and this was the case even before last night after all the controversy about the eight categories that were cut from By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 06:15 am
Oscars 2022 The Chaoscars When I dubbed the 2022 Oscars the “Chaoscars”, I didn’t mean it like this! And look, we’ll talk about the biggest story of the night in its own post, but for now, let’s start with everything else and how this was a truly terrible Oscars from start By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 05:45 am
Oscars 2022 Intro for March 28, 2022 Dear Gossips, It is a truth universally acknowledged that when Beyoncé opens a show, no other point in the show will reach the heights that it did when Beyoncé was in command. That was always going to be the case with the Oscars this year; it’s just that…well… By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 05:10 am
Oscars 2022 Predicting the Chaoscars This awards season has been 1) INTERMINABLE, and 2) CHAOTIC. Dramatic momentum shifts, wild nominations at precursor award shows, races too close to call—these Oscars are so chaotic, they should be called the Chaoscars . Predicting Oscar wins is tougher than usual for a number of reasons, ranging from the By Sarah • Mar 25, 2022 03:02 pm
Oscars 2022 Serena wears Serena Oscar weekend means everyone who can be in town is in town and parties all over the place. Because it’s also a working weekend. The parties are work, networking is work, and you show up to be seen, to see people, to be seen with those people. Last night By Lainey • Mar 25, 2022 09:38 am
Oscars 2022 Intro for March 25, 2022 Dear Gossips, It is finally Oscar weekend… and it will be a Beyoncé weekend. The Academy confirmed earlier this week that Beyoncé will be performing her Oscar-nominated song “Be Alive” from King Richard at the Oscars on Sunday. As previously mentioned there are rumours that she’ll be coming to By Lainey • Mar 25, 2022 09:07 am
Oscars 2022 Intro for March 23, 2022 Dear Gossips, Oscar voting closed yesterday, which means it’s time for Scott Feinberg’s annual “brutally honest Oscar ballots”. So often, these things are revealing of far more than the anonymous voter intends, and this year is no different. The first brutally honest ballot featured is from a producer, By Sarah • Mar 23, 2022 09:13 am
Oscars 2022 Intro for March 22, 2022 Dear Gossips, In yesterday’s open I mentioned that Halle Bailey has been confirmed as a presenter at the Oscars, leading to speculation that she may be introducing Beyoncé. Yesterday Variety had an exclusive, reporting that the Academy has been negotiating with Beyoncé’s team since last Monday to perform By Lainey • Mar 22, 2022 09:04 am
Bad Style Jessica Chastain and the red carpet skip The Oscars are happening in less than a week. The high points of the Oscars are always the bookends – the beginning, which is the red carpet during arrivals, and the end, which is when Best Picture is typically presented. It’s the in between that show producers and the Academy By Lainey • Mar 21, 2022 12:41 pm
Award Season Campaigning Brace for a CODA upset Last week, the Oscar race got a shakeup after Sian Heder’s CODA snatched Best Adapted Screenplay from presumptive favorite The Power of the Dog at the BAFTAs. Dog triumphed that weekend, though, winning top honors at the BAFTAs and the Critics’ Choice Awards, clinging to its place atop the By Sarah • Mar 21, 2022 11:10 am
Oscars 2022 Intro for March 21, 2022 Dear Gossips, We’re now less than a week away from the 2022 Oscars and one of the most tightly contested Best Picture Oscar races in recent years. But will Rachel Zegler be there? Rachel is the star of West Side Story, nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture. She By Lainey • Mar 21, 2022 08:46 am
