Oscars
Vox’s coverage of the Academy Awards: Oscar predictions, analysis, winners, losers, key moments, and more.
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The family drama is a hugely unlikely Best Picture winner. But it sort of makes sense.
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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.
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.
Why we love this Best Picture nominee.
Great performances and fascinating technical choices power the riveting drama starring Riz Ahmed as a drummer who’s going deaf.
How the Best Picture nominee depicts grief, gig employment, and the American heartland.
The movie, starring Anthony Hopkins, is heartbreaking and brilliant.
Our critics have wildly differing opinions about the movie. Will the Oscars?
Exploring David Fincher’s complicated movie about Hollywood and the making of Citizen Kane.
The Netflix historical courtroom drama seems like a classic Oscar movie. Will it win?
The group that gives out the Oscars has ballooned in size in the past few years — with big implications for the Oscars’ future.
Both LaKeith Stanfield and Daniel Kaluuya got nominations. But shouldn’t one of them be in the Lead Actor category?
On the whole, the nominees are pretty good — and pretty interesting.
How to watch them and why you should.
Mank is the most-nominated film, with 10 nods.
