Between delivering exquisite physical comedy and threatening to punch a baby, Emma Stone’s performance in Poor Things has earned her her second Academy Award for Best Actress. Stone played the lead role of Bella Baxter, a resurrected woman with a child’s brain, in Yorgos Lanthimos’ critically acclaimed film. Prior to the Oscars, she also won…
The name on everybody’s lips at the 96th Academy Awards was Oppenheimer. Christopher Nolan’s historical drama took home the Oscar for Best Picture, as well as six other awards: Best Director (Nolan), Best Actor (Cillian Murphy), Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.), Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, and Best Cinematography. The Oscar win marks…
Robert Downey Jr. has won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor at the 2024 Academy Awards for his role in Oppenheimer, the first Oscar for Christopher Nolan’s latest film. In Oppenheimer, Downey Jr. played Lewis Strauss, the former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission who masterminded the hearing that revoked J. Robert Oppenheimer’s (Cillian Murphy)…
Connections is the latest New York Times word game that’s captured the public’s attention. The game is all about finding the “common threads between words.” And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we’ve served up some hints and tips to get you over the…
Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling exchanged Barbenheimer barbs while presenting a tribute to 2023’s best stunt performances at the 2024 Oscars. The two stars played the titular Barbenheimer‘s other halves: Oppenheimer’s Kitty and Barbie’s Ken. SEE ALSO: The cult of Barbenheimer: In the pursuit of saving cinema, did we all lose our minds? Before presenting…
If any category this award season seemed locked, it was Best Supporting Actress. Da’Vine Joy Randolph has absolutely dominated, winning a cascade of critics’ guild honors — including the Critics Choice Award — as well as a Golden Globe and BAFTA. And tonight, she has won her first Academy Award. Tonight’s win was well-deserved and puts Randolph…
All eyes are on the Oscars tonight, and many are using the opportunity to advocate for a ceasefire and draw attention to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza amid ongoing protests. As the stars hit the red carpet, a large crowd gathered outside the Dolby Theatre to protest in support of Palestine, causing a traffic jam…
Poor Things production designers do a deep dive with Mashable’s Kristy Puchko into the inspiration behind the surreal film. Stars William Dafoe and Mark Ruffalo describe how the production design helped them develop their own characters in the film. Production Designers Shona Heath and James Price took home the Academy Award for Production Design for…
Welcome to Oscar night! The 96th Annual Academy Awards has arrived to honor the very best of 2023 cinema, ranging from animated wonders like Nimona and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse to live-action hits like Poor Things, The Holdovers, and Oppenheimer, the last of which boasts a whopping 13 nominations. But who will win big on…
Do you ever feel hopelessly stuck? Like no matter what you do, you keep ending up in the same shitty place? That’s the conundrum facing the heroine of Desert Road. After crashing her car in a remote desert, no matter what Clare Devoir (Kristine Froseth) does, she ends up back where she started. The pieces…