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Jack Black on His Christmas-Movie Rivalry and Those White Lotus Rumors
On the awards campaign trail for his Super Mario Bros. Movie song, “Peaches,” and fresh off an Emmy win, Black is hitting new milestones even more than two decades into Hollywood stardom.
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Is This the Year a Queer Actor Goes All the Way at the Oscars?
Films like Strange Way of Life, Cassandro, and All of Us Strangers could break down some of Oscar’s most stubborn walls this season.
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Carey Mulligan on the “Soul-Baring and Crying” That Made Maestro Possible
The actor used dream workshops and a deep dive into Felicia Montealegre’s past to embody Leonard Bernstein’s wife.
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Dua Lipa Thinks Greta Gerwig “Defied All Odds” on Barbie and Was Happy to Come Along for the Ride
The pop star tells Vanity Fair about “Dance the Night,” her secret contributions to the film during a busy world tour, and what she learned from reuniting with her “Electricity” partner Mark Ronson.
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With The Taste of Things, Juliette Binoche Confronted Her Past—And Paved a New Path Forward
The Oscar winner opens up about the profound insights gained from making her luminous new film, which France is campaigning for this year’s international-film Oscar.
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Will Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon, or Barbie Be Crowned Best Picture?
Bold artistic gambles, sweeping historical dramas, and a pair of idiosyncratic blockbusters make for an unusually captivating top Oscar race.
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How Poor Things’ Intimacy Coordinator Made All Those Sex Scenes Possible
Elle McAlpine helped center Yorgos Lanthimos’s coming-of-age movie around female orgasm, modesty garments, and empowered sexual exploration.
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Greta Lee Isn’t Sure She Can Go Back to Supporting Roles After Past Lives
At the Unforgettable Gala in Beverly Hills on Saturday, Lee was honored before a predominantly Asian crowd: “I think it’s time now for us to be at the center of our own stories, on our own terms.”
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Smoking Is Back in Movies. Here’s Why
Maestro, Cassandro, Saltburn, and more movies this season use lighting up to capture time, character, and sometimes tragedy.
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Poor Things Screenwriter Tony McNamara Breaks Down One of Its Most Complex Scenes
For his first-ever adaptation, the writer of The Favourite created a character like no other, who “changes the way they speak every 15 minutes.”
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Before Cara Jade Myers Was Killers of the Flower Moon’s Secret Weapon, She Nearly Quit Acting
The heartbreaking scene-stealer of Martin Scorsese’s epic Oscar contender opens up about her struggles in Hollywood, her complex feelings around the film’s portrait of a Native American tragedy, and holding her own against DiCaprio and De Niro.
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Was This Strike-Struck Awards Season Hollywood’s Weirdest Ever?
No red carpets. No interviews. No promo, period—especially when actors joined writers on the picket line.
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Inside the Golden Globes’ New “Box Office Achievement” Category
Golden Globes president Helen Hoehne says it was their opportunity to celebrate “how movie theaters are kept alive.”
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At Last, Some Awards Season Front-Runners Emerge
On this week’s Little Gold Men podcast, a deep dive on the Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards, and many more winners from the past week.
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How Saltburn Uses Images to Combine Gothic Beauty and Grotesque Imperfections
Writer-director Emerald Fennell and cinematographer Linus Sandgren reveal they took inspiration from vampire movies and classic paintings, but made it all “a little bit dirtier.”
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Emily Blunt Still Treasures Christopher Nolan’s “Very British Compliments”
The Oppenheimer star shares what’s unique about Nolan’s direction, her Quiet Place bond with Cillian Murphy, and what she looks for on set after 20 years of making movies.
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Lily Gladstone, Barry Keoghan, and More Performances We Can’t Forget
A tribute to four of this year’s acting hopefuls, from Killers of the Flower Moon to May December.
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Jeff Probst on a Survivor Season of Triumphs, Breakthroughs, and Quits: “I Was Shocked”
The Emmy-winning host of the venerable reality-competition series opens up to Vanity Fair about reaching high highs and low lows with his 45th season.
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Olivia Rodrigo on Her Hunger Games Ballad: “This Got Me to Flex New Muscles”
To close out a year that included a blockbuster sophomore album and six Grammy nominations, Rodrigo lent her voice—and her imagination—to The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
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The 2024 Emmys Have Finally Found a Host
With 11 Emmy nominations and his own game show hosting gig, Anthony Anderson is the man for the job.
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Critics Choice Awards 2024: See the Full List of Nominations
The awards show will air live on the CW on January 14, hosted by Chelsea Handler.