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


The comedian was announced as the host for the 2019 Academy Awards on Tuesday.


Vice, the new Dick Cheney biopic, leads the list for movies, while the TV nominations are as weird as ever.

From nailbiters and thrillers to slow burns and high school stories, this year was a great year for nonfiction cinema.


Costume dramas, animated superheroes, tales of recent political history, and a flying nanny all land in theaters this month.


With smaller movies flopping left and right, the frontrunners might be big movies like A Star Is Born and Black Panther.


In this version of Queen Anne’s court, everything from whispered conspiracies to duck racing is really about who’s got the upper hand.


“You don’t need to make films about women just idealizing them.”


Oscar-winner Steve McQueen returns with a bleakly pleasurable tale set on Chicago’s South Side.


The six-part romp leans hard into caricatures to sing of mortality and life’s absurdities.


The film chronicles the making of the singer’s acclaimed 1972 gospel album, Amazing Grace.


I interviewed Dafoe about playing the famous artist in Julian Schnabel’s new film, At Eternity’s Gate. He also told me how he’d paint my face.


Tilda Swinton and Dakota Johnson star in a brutal horror story set in a dance company in divided Berlin.


A gleefully cartoonish Western, a Mexican masterpiece, a James Baldwin adaptation, and a deliciously wicked palace intrigue are all on the docket for November.


How the former Walking Dead star navigates his identity, religion, and personal history in his film career.


“My job is to deceive myself into thinking I understand what’s going on,” the documentarian says about his new film Monrovia, Indiana.


Melissa McCarthy plays the biographer turned literary forger in the new film based on Israel’s memoir.


The best-selling novel makes for a riveting, funny, incisive big-screen drama anchored by outstanding performances.


In Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Grant plays a “street-grifting hustler” who helps commit literary forgery.


“That’s very un-Neil”: Josh Singer talks about facts, fiction, and the man behind the Armstrong myth.


The 1969 moon landing is the backdrop for an intimate portrait of Armstrong, as we see the historical achievement through his eyes.


Screenwriter Josh Singer talked to specialists and NASA engineers, because “a lot of it feels like it’s in Greek.”


Based on two bestselling memoirs, the movie is a sensitive portrait of a father trying to save his son.


It’s a well-loved theme with many variations.


The music business is the backdrop for a moving love story.


Dance horror, noir, family dramas, and more movies that are looking for glory.


The writer and director of The Old Man & the Gun talks about his star, his offbeat influences, and why he keeps making movies about outlaws.


In David Lowery’s homage to an American archetype, Redford ends his career as he started it: playing a celebrity thief.


It’s the movie’s pivotal song, performed by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper.


Reilly co-stars with Joaquin Phoenix, Riz Ahmed, and Jake Gyllenhaal in The Sisters Brothers, a darkly comic Western.


Moore takes on Trump, Obama, Bill Clinton, the Democrats, the media, and a lot more, but liberal apathy is his prime target.


The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel was the biggest winner of the night.


The audience reactions were the best part of the pair’s Emmys monologue.


“We solved it!” (They didn’t solve it.)


The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel dominated the comedy categories, Game of Thrones reclaimed the Outstanding Drama Series crown, and The Handmaid’s Tale went home empty-handed.


Winners: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Netflix, and old people. Losers: Atlanta and The Handmaid’s Tale.


At the 2018 Emmys, the Saturday Night Live stars wore Christian Siriano and Tanya Taylor, to great effect.


“I am wearing Nike to applaud them for supporting Colin Kaepernick and his protest against racial injustice and police brutality,” Lewis said.


The pair have a history of bad jokes and an inability to take criticism.


Michael Che and Colin Jost will host the awards live on September 17.


Handmaid’s Tale takes on Game of Thrones in Drama Series, while Atlanta and Mrs. Maisel face off in Comedy Series.