Oscars
Vox’s coverage of the Academy Awards: Oscar predictions, analysis, winners, losers, key moments, and more.
The musicians backed political activists and called out the NRA and Donald Trump in their Oscars performance.
The night honored several of Hollywood’s oldest living legends.
The Shape of Water leads this year’s Academy Award nominations with 13 nods, but there’s no clear frontrunner in the wide-open Best Picture race.
Celebrity fashion experts Tom and Lorenzo break down how one of the biggest events in Hollywood comes together.
The Shape of Water leads with 13 nominations. But which movie will win Best Picture is anyone’s guess.
Are you a major recording star? Here’s a way you can win an Oscar!
Hint: It’s not the director, who wins something else entirely.
One awards the overall mix of the film’s sound design. The other is for sound effects added in post-production.
Why does the Academy categorize some true stories as original screenplays and others as adapted screenplays?
From Marlon Brando to Daniel Day-Lewis, Hollywood’s infatuation continues.
A rule change filled a once daring category with dreck. Here are this year’s five nominees, from Coco to The Boss Baby.
Predicting Best Picture this year is a total mess. We tried to make it less messy.
Our critics roundtable discusses the Oscar chances for Joe Wright’s blurry WWII history centered on Winston Churchill.
The 2018 nominees show a more diverse slate than would have been expected a few years ago, but there’s still work to be done.
Our critics roundtable discusses the Oscar chances for Paul Thomas Anderson’s precisely crafted, twisted romance.
Wide shots, silhouettes, the color red — these are the traits of Oscar-winning camerawork from 1927 to today.
Our critics roundtable discusses the Oscar chances for Guillermo del Toro’s watery fantasy-romance.
Our critics roundtable discusses the Oscar chances for Luca Guadagnino’s lush gay romance.
Our critics roundtable dissects the Oscar chances for Lady Bird, a beautiful movie with a huge heart.
This year’s talent slate broke Oscar records.
Our critics roundtable discusses the Oscar chances for Jordan Peele’s horror film.
Our critics roundtable discusses the Oscar chances for Christopher Nolan’s big, audacious war epic.
Here’s what makes each of this year’s nine nominees distinctive.
Our critics roundtable discusses the Oscar chances of the Steven Spielberg movie that ought to have been a shoo-in.
Our critics roundtable discusses the Oscar chances of the year’s most controversial nominee.
How and why to watch this year’s documentary nominees.
Affleck would have presented the award for Best Actress but has instead opted to step aside.
The Oscars rarely acknowledge horror films outside of the technical categories. That’s changing fast.
2018 may be one of the most surprising years on record.
It’s rare that the Academy recognizes comic book or superhero movies beyond technical categories.
Winners: The Shape of Water and Get Out. Losers: The Post and Call Me by Your Name’s supporting actors.
The Oscars love to give awards to very young women and middle-aged men.
Rachel Morrison breaks a 90-year streak for her sumptuous work in Netflix’s Mudbound.
To some extent, predicting the Oscars in 2017 requires predicting Donald Trump.
Including everything from superhero movies (Wonder Woman) to tiny indies (The Big Sick) to whatever A Cure for Wellness is.
The Oscars’ voting society invited nearly 800 new members this year, but its rate of diversity actually shrank.
Should his criminal record have been news? The media wouldn’t have allowed anything else.
I’m a typography expert. The Oscars flub came down to bad design.
The Oscars proved that it is time.
That’s why it deserves its Best Original Song Oscar.