Awards Shows
Vox’s coverage of all things awards shows, from the Oscars to the Golden Globes, Emmys, and more.


The greatest films from a tumultuous year.

Rian Johnson’s murder mystery follow-up takes on the self-styled founder class, with riotous results.


The original film, starring the late Chadwick Boseman, set a standard for Marvel excellence. The sequel is ready to meet it.


Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson re-team for Martin McDonagh’s riotous fable that’s about more than a friend breakup.


Fall has arrived. Here’s everything to know about the year’s upcoming releases.


Cate Blanchett stars in a tightly wound masterpiece that slices through class anxiety and power.


Ruben Ostlund doesn’t think we’re hypocrites.


On the Endgamification of everything.


From The Fabelmans to Bardo to Armageddon Time, the filmmakers are making their memoirs.


The Whale is more than the movie where Brendan Fraser wears a fat suit.


The plot is based on a horrifying true story from 2011, but the resistance philosophy goes back to St. Augustine.


Loneliness, longing, and love in the third pandemic summer.


Baz Luhrmann’s movie about The King belly-flops, but in an interesting way.


The films that scandalized and enchanted audiences at the world’s most prestigious film festival — and how to watch them soon.

For the Pentagon, films like Top Gun: Maverick are more than just a movie.


Everything Everywhere All at Once and Turning Red are part of a burgeoning subgenre: the millennial parental apology fantasy.


The probability that we’re all living in the multiverse, and why that idea is so appealing.


What the American Oscars telecast cut from the Will Smith-Chris Rock confrontation.


Figure out what the Academy Awards are for before you do another one.


An openly queer woman of color, a deaf actor, and a streaming service all celebrate Oscar wins.


Beyoncé, Bruno, and the beef between Will Smith and Chris Rock.


The family drama is a hugely unlikely Best Picture winner. But it sort of makes sense.


Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy explores the startling role of pure luck in our lives.
The Oscar-nominated director of Attica keeps showing us the real America.


The Licorice Pizza director has made beautiful loners out of Haim, Fiona Apple, Radiohead, and more.


Turning Red’s biggest offense may just be its unapologetic weirdness.


When Ariana DeBose and Lin-Manuel Miranda collaborated on a musical about cheerleaders, based on a Kirsten Dunst franchise.


Hollywood’s going global, but its biggest awards are still provincial.


How do you get an Oscar? Who’s going to win Best Picture? Why wasn’t Spider-Man nominated?


Almost half of this year’s acting nominations went to actors playing real-life icons.


Co-writer (and Academy Award nominee) David Sirota on what the movie is really about.


The most exciting nonfiction from this year’s Sundance.


A brief history of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s bad year.


Forecasting what’s shaping up to be another bumpy year.


Why the Oscars and the DNC were so great in lockdown and the Golden Globes and RNC weren’t.


A fantastically unpredictable show ended on a huge bummer of an anticlimax.


The quiet drama makes a lot of sense for this strange Oscars year.


Major milestones from a historically weird Academy Awards.


The Academy Awards will look different this year.

The merits, demerits, and awards chances of each film in a weird year at the Oscars.