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Best Picture
A French Criminal Justice Expert Answers Our Questions About Anatomy of a Fall The Best Picture-nominated drama is an only mostly realistic portrait of the funnily dressed, anything-goes nature of French courts.
oscar futures
Dec. 22, 2023
Oscar Futures: The 12 Contenders of Christmas Let’s get into the Christmas spirit by running down the 12 awards ho-ho-hopefuls with the best chance of nabbing Oscar’s Best Picture.
By Nate Jones
oscars 2022
Mar. 29, 2022
How CODA Won Best Picture All season long, Sian Heder’s movie was overshadowed by bigger, starrier contenders. But none of that mattered come final voting.
By Nate Jones
oscars 2022
Mar. 28, 2022
CODA Becomes First Streaming Movie to Win Best Picture at the OscarsApple TV+’s intimate family comedy-drama is the first streaming movie to win Best Picture.
By Rebecca Alter
oscars 2021
Mar. 18, 2021
After the Oscar Nominations, Who’s the Early Leader in Best Picture? After Monday’s nominations, here’s a rough ranking of the eight Best Picture nominees, from The Father to … well, no spoilers.
By Nate Jones
awards seasom
Feb. 18, 2019
By Devon Ivie
oscars 2019
Feb. 15, 2019
Can You Guess the Oscar Film From the IMDb Parents Guide Content Warning? Worried about which Oscar nominees you can share with your children? So are others. Can you guess which movies the parents of IMDb are describing?
By Kathryn VanArendonk
oscars 2019
Feb. 15, 2019
What the 1948 Best Picture Race Has in Common With This Year’s Competition This year’s Best Picture race isn’t the first time films with conflicting takes on a controversial issue were pitted against each other.
By Kristin Hunt
best picture
Feb. 26, 2018
Steve Harvey on the Oscars Best Picture Mistake: ‘I Was Free! Thank You, God!’ “When he walked out there and snatched that card out of Warren’s hand, that’s when I knew redemption was mine.”
By Hunter Harris
Biggest Mistakes in 9 Oscar-Winning Movies No movie is completely perfect — even if it’s won an Oscar for Best Picture.
By Brittany Stephanis
Academy President Promises Oscars Changes to ‘Ensure This Never Happens Again’ Cheryl Boone Isaacs addressed PwC, Beatty and Dunaway, and more in a note to Academy members.
By Kaitlin Fontana
spill the tea
Mar. 2, 2017
The Oscars Stage Manager Says He Was Stunned by PwC Accountant Incompetence “When La La Land was announced, she did not try to get my attention, she did not say anything. And she’s supposed to have memorized the winners.”
By Hunter Harris
oscars 2017
Feb. 27, 2017
Trump’s Theory on the Oscars Debacle: Everyone Was Too Busy Thinking About Trump “They were focused so hard on politics that they didn’t get the act together at the end.”
By Tolly Wright
oscars 2017
Feb. 27, 2017
The Accounting Firm Behind Oscar Voting Apologizes for the Best Picture Mix-up “We are currently investigating how this could have happened, and deeply regret that this occurred.”
By Hunter Harris
oscars 2017
Feb. 27, 2017
By Halle Kiefer
oscars 2017
Feb. 27, 2017
By Hunter Harris
vulture cover story
Dec. 4, 2016
How Crash Crashed the Oscars An oral history of a Best Picture shocker.
By Stacey Wilson Hunt
Remember, Tom McCarthy Also Directed The Cobbler “I love that movie. If you have four children and one of them’s wacky, you go, ‘Hey, he’s wacky, but I love that kid!’”
By Jada Yuan
oscar futures
Dec. 29, 2015
So, What the Hell Is Going on in Best Picture? This year’s Oscar category seems wide open, but here are the likeliest contenders.
By Kyle Buchanan
awards season
Dec. 14, 2015
By Halle Kiefer
Everything You Need to Know About This Year’s Best Picture Nominees From 12 Years a Slave through Dallas Buyers Club : Everything we’ve written about the nominees.
By Anna Silman
oscars 2013
Feb. 25, 2013
By Charlotte Cowles
New Oscar Host Seth MacFarlane Will Be Forced to Dress Nice, Be […] Family Guy guy Seth MacFarlane has just been hired to host the 2013 Oscars. The awards will air on ABC in February. Good thing the Academy has […]
By Bradford Evans
Spiteful, Undervoting Academy Members to Do Not Much of Anything Academy members intentionally flouting the directions on their ballots in hopes of hurting their favorite movies’ competition probably won’t make much of a difference.
By Lane Brown
Up Director Pete Docter Reacts to His Oscar Nominations“It’s surreal to have your name read out over the Internet at 5:30 in the morning.”
By Lane Brown
A Best Picture Contender’s Guide to Running Against Slumdog Millionaire Now that the underdog is the odds-on favorite, we’ve drafted a list of anti-’Slumdog’ talking points that might be helpful to publicists running rival Oscar campaigns.
By Lane Brown