Oscars
Vox’s coverage of the Academy Awards: Oscar predictions, analysis, winners, losers, key moments, and more.


The 92nd Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 9.


The Academy’s new standards are aimed at long-term change.


The ceremony’s shifting eligibility window suggests that Hollywood has rigged its own system.


With theaters closed and festivals scrambling, the Oscars are making concessions that could have long-range implications.

How exploitative working conditions and failed government initiatives have weakened Japan’s cultural influence abroad.


It’s a perfect pairing to the director’s 2020 Best Picture winner and a great introduction to his whole body of work.


Most of the films that took home trophies at the 2020 Academy Awards are available to watch right now.


The Best Actor winner elevated the moral worth of animals to a national audience.


Winners: Parasite! Non-American directors! Eminem! Losers: Netflix and 1917.


The film’s historic night at the Oscars was a leap forward for the Academy.


Why the 2020 Oscars should have had a host.


Phoenix discussed racism, queerness, misogyny, animal rights, personal sacrifice, and cancel culture.


The 2020 Oscars in firsts, milestones, and other statistics.


Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film.


Janelle Monáe’s armor-like crystal gown, Kristen Wiig’s lasagna ruffles, and Billy Porter’s royals-inspired dress.


The film took home four Oscars, including the biggest prize of the night.


The audience reactions to Eminem’s surprise performance were hilariously divided, but it was a win for the rapper.




Laura Dern is having her moment right now.


There were no female nominees in the Best Director category this year.


We honestly can’t decide if the opening number at the Oscars was good or bad.


For the second year in a row, the Oscars are going host-free. It’s likely the start of a new normal.


The custom Gucci suit has “24” on the lapels and under the back collar.


Joker leads the nominations with 11 nods. 1917 and Parasite are frontrunners to win Best Picture.


Joker is the most-nominated film, with 11 nods.


This year’s race seems likely to come down to two wildly different movies.


A VFX artist reacts to 5 Oscar-nominated movies.


The long and torturous awards season creates an unnecessarily limited vision of what an Oscar movie is.


How to watch the films the Academy snubbed.

Academy Award nominations spotlight great films. So why do the awards themselves leave me cold?


“There is kind of this fatalism that is going on,” an expert told Vox.


Here’s how its rules need to change.


Greta Gerwig’s Little Women dared to imagine a story where Amy isn’t a villain.


From Joker to Parasite to Little Women, here are all the movies competing for the Academy’s biggest prize.


Our roundtable discusses the Oscar chances for Noah Baumbach’s tale of the ties that bind.


Our roundtable discusses the Oscar chances for the historical tale of men, fast cars, and mortality.


Our roundtable discusses the Best Picture chances for Martin Scorsese’s mobster epic.


Our roundtable discusses the Oscar chances for Sam Mendes’s “one shot” war movie.


Our roundtable discusses the Oscar chances for the director’s twisty elegy for a lost age.


Our roundtable discusses the Oscar chances for Greta Gerwig’s beautiful adaptation of a beloved old story.