Oscars
Vox’s coverage of the Academy Awards: Oscar predictions, analysis, winners, losers, key moments, and more.
Awards season runs year-round for some studios.
Along with Spotlight, Room, and Mad Max.
Spotlight wins the big prize, but Mad Max wins the most awards.
The internet sighs and looks for new jokes.
Let’s praise this movie’s drab realism — and its understated but potent images.
Who got to take home the Oscar gold?
They explain hard-to-understand categories so well.
Not since the dog from The Artist has an animal so dominated awards season.
Chris Rock gave some Oscar films a makeover.
“Kids, if you’re watching this, go to bed!”
The Best Picture race is one of the most competitive in years.
Focusing on actors lets offscreen decision-makers off the hook.
Celebrities are pitching in where local officials failed Flint residents.
Including everything from imprisoned teenage girls to an inventively filmed Holocaust drama
The category has everything from R-rated stop motion to hilarious sight gags about sheep.
The film has empathy for everyone fighting a seemingly endless war
The director stands up, smiling broadly, walks over to me, and says, “Great, great job, Bear. I’d like for you to do it again. This time I want you to imagine if you were a black man and someone was saying all of these things to you.”
You can watch four of them with Netflix and Amazon Prime subscriptions.
Variety’s new magazine cover addresses the issue in a way paralleled by few in the industry: It’s taking responsibility.
Lifetime Oscar voting rights for Academy members are no longer a guarantee, among other things.
The director explains why he’s sitting out this year’s awards.
The Academy Awards still struggle to honor films about LGBTQ people, too.
Oh, Carol.
How many times can you watch Mad Max before February 28?
Understanding how this happens is key to understanding why the Oscar nominees can feel so bland.
The Academy Awards make their 88th annual choices.
The Academy Awards’ diversity problem, explained.
Plus: the supporting categories are even wilder.
Plus: Best Director and both screenplay categories.
You can follow along with us here.
This in a year with lots of award-friendly movies driven by women characters.
Many of the Oscar hopefuls this year are about women, a welcome change.
The actors — including a Voldemort-esque Depp — are giving their all. But there’s not nearly enough there to give.
The Oscars haven’t changed. The movie-going public has.
It was either a beautiful paean to the universality of childhood or a movie built around a complete cipher.
Also, a whole bunch of promising sounding projects from great directors and actors. And Star Wars.
Poor Michael Keaton.