Conan O’Brien paid tribute to Martin Short as he signed off as host of the 98th Academy Awards. “It’s been an honor and a joy,” he said of the hosting experience, his second time out. […]
Daily Archives: March 16, 2026
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Sinners made Academy Awards history when it received a record 16 nominations, more than any other movie in history — breaking a record that had only been tied for the past 75 years. It missed […]
Grab your Uggs/Crocs, fire up MomTok, and get your dirty soda bars ready! The Bachelorette Season 22 is almost here, and to celebrate the March 22 premiere, Bachelorette leads past officially inducted Taylor Frankie Paul […]
One Battle After Another fended off the late-breaking momentum of Sinners to win Best Picture at the Oscars. The revolutionary comedy thriller beat Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value and […]
One Battle After Another won Best Picture at the 2026 Oscars on Sunday night, following a tight Oscar race with Sinners all awards season. I guess that’s one battle they can stop fighting! The award—presented […]
SAG-AFTRA is putting a pin in negotiations with the major Hollywood studios, for now. The actors union agreed to extend talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, likely into June, after failing […]
Jessie Buckley took a beat to laugh at the absurdity of it all when she won the award for Best Actress for her heartbreaking performance in Hamnet at the 2026 Oscars on Sunday night. Buckely […]
After Mr. Nobody Against Putin won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature Film on Oscars night, director David Borenstein made some subtle parallels between Putin’s Russia and Trump’s America in his acceptance speech. Backstage, Borenstein elaborated a […]
Jessie Buckley has become the first Irish actress to win the Best Actress category at the 98th annual Academy Awards for her performance in Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet. In her acceptance speech, she called the win […]
Paul Thomas Anderson made history Sunday at the 98th Oscars, joining the exclusive club of directors who have won three or more Oscars for a single movie. Following the One Battle After Another win for […]
Sinners cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw became the first Black woman, and first woman of any race, to win the Oscar for best cinematography. Arkapaw, who is of Filipino and African American Creole descent, won best […]
Jessie Buckley has officially made a clean sweep of awards season, earning the best actress trophy at the 2026 Oscars on Sunday for her role in Hamnet. Buckley beat out fellow nominees Rose Byrne (If […]
Michael B. Jordan has won his first Academy Award tonight, prevailing in the Best Actor category with his dual roles in Warner Bros.‘ Sinners. Jordan has been a top contender this whole season, alongside Marty […]
Paul Thomas Anderson took home his second Oscar of the night and first as a director landing the Academy Award for Best Directing on Sunday night. In his speech, he joked about how long it […]
Sinners’ Autumn Durald Arkapaw became the first woman to ever win Best Cinematography at the Oscars. Durald Arkapaw beat Frankenstein’s Dan Laustsen, Marty Supreme’s Darius Khondji, One Battle After Another’s Michael Bauman and Train Dreams’ […]
Jimmy Kimmel returned to his old stomping grounds Sunday night by hitting the Oscars 2026 stage to present a pair of trophies, and in the process he took some not-so-subtle digs at President Donald Trump, […]
By winning the Oscar for Best Director for One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson has made a belated Gen X triumph. The movie itself]feels authentically Gen X in that it doesn’t embrace selling out […]
Paul Thomas Anderson has won best director at the Oscars 2026, his first win in the category and second of the night for One Battle After Another — with a strong chance to take home […]
Huntr/x really is “Golden.” Netflix’s Kpop Demon Hunters finished its stunning award-season sweep Sunday night by taking home the Oscar for Best Original Song at the 98th Academy Awards for the girl group’s certified hit. […]
The In Memoriam segment of the 2026 Oscars on Sunday night paid moving tribute to the late Hollywood icon Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Reiner, among many Hollywood legends lost this year. Oscars producers […]
The Oscar winners 2026 are rejoicing, and one Nordic country can celebrate its first-ever win in the best international feature film category of the Academy Awards — Norway. The country got through from the 15-title shortlist to the final five and on […]
The ladies of Huntrix, EJAE, Rei Ami and Audrey Nuna, took the Oscars stage Sunday, performing “Golden,” the hit song from the film. The KPop Demon Hunters performance started with the film’s opening of the […]
Javier Bardem, who has been a longtime vocal advocate for Palestinian human rights, took to the Oscars stage ahead of the International Film presentation to declare: “No to war and Free Palestine.” The F1 star […]
Swedish musician Ludwig Göransson cemented his status as the most decorated film composer of the decade, winning three of the past eight Oscars for Best Original Score out of three nominations in the category. His […]
Sean Penn was not on hand at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles for the 2026 Oscars on Sunday night when he became the fourth man to win three acting Oscars, taking best supporting actor […]
Autumn Durald Arkapaw made history Sunday night when she took home the Academy Award for best cinematography in Ryan Coogler’s Southern gothic, genre-bending film “Sinners.” Arkapaw asked all the women in the room to stand […]
[This story contains spoilers for Dark Winds through season four, episode five, “Atída’ahiilyaagíí (Those Who Harmed One Another).”] One thing Dark Winds excels at is the art of the cliffhanger. Last week’s episode was true […]
There are tons of adaptations of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet from the past century-plus of cinema, including a Best Picture winner from 1949. But there’s only been so adaptation so far of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet, […]
Jimmy Kimmel was ostensibly at the 2026 Oscars to present the awards for Best Documentary Short and Best Documentary Feature, but of course, he took his platform to dig into politics. After lobbing a shot […]
NASA recently announced that it’s targeting April 1 for the launch of its highly anticipated lunar-bound mission, Artemis II. Inside the Orion spacecraft lifted to space by the powerful SLS rocket will be NASA astronauts […]
NASA recently announced that it’s targeting April 1 for the launch of its highly anticipated lunar-bound mission, Artemis II. Inside the Orion spacecraft lifted to space by the powerful SLS rocket will be NASA astronauts […]
In an Oscar shocker, the Academy in December announced that the Academy Awards telecast will be moving from its longtime home on ABC to YouTube starting in 2029. At the first Oscar ceremony since the […]
McAdams treated the audience to a Girl Scout song she said Keaton used to sing on movie sets: Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, the other is gold. A circle is […]
Best Supporting Actor felt like a genuine toss-up at this year’s Oscars right up until the point that Sean Penn’s name was called. He might have seemed like an unlikely choice, given that he already […]
“What did you get us for our anniversary?” Chris Evans asked Robert Downey Jr. when they took the stage at the Oscars to present the screenplay categories. “Hold on, I’m doing a…” answered the actor […]
As a Yellowstone fan, Arielle Kebbel was eager to be in the orbit of the Dutton legacy in the new CBS drama Marshals. “I definitely felt the weight of and the obligation to respect the […]
In a rare move, two films tied for the best live-action short film Oscar — something that’s happened only six times before. “The Singers,” directed by Sam A. Davis and produced by Jack Piatt, and […]
Paul Thomas Anderson has won his first-ever Oscar — for Adapted Screenplay for One Battle After Another — and in his speech, dedicated his triumph to his four children. “Thank you very, very much,” he […]
Whoever was going to win for casting tonight was headed to the Oscar history books as the first ever recipient of the award. The honor went to Cassandra Kulukundis for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle […]
Ryan Coogler took home his first Oscar and the first win of the night for Warner Bros. to a standing ovation but wanted to make sure he calmed the audience down as he knew he […]
The road for Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation’s KPop Demon Hunters has been nothing short of golden. On Sunday, writer-directors Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans and producer Michelle L.M. Wong took home the Oscar for Animated […]
Sean Penn won his third Oscar for his role in One Battle After Another but was nowhere to be seen at the Dolby Theater. Penn won Best Supporting Actor, beating his One Battle co-star Benicio […]
When Two People Exchanging Saliva director Alexandre Singh took the stage to accept his Oscar for Best Live Action Short at the 2026 Oscars, he couldn’t resist throwing some shade at Best Actor nominee Timothée […]
Weapons fans, rejoice, as Amy Madigan has confirmed that a prequel centered around Aunt Gladys is in the works. Moments after stepping off stage at the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday, Madigan — who took […]
There was a rare tie at the Oscars on Sunday night, with The Singers (Netflix) and Two People Exchanging Saliva (Canal+/The New Yorker) both taking home the award for Best Live-Action Short Film. Including this […]
The Oscar for best live-action short film resulted in expectedly big drama Sunday night as the category resulted in a tie. A stunned looking Kumail Nanjiani, who presented the category, deftly handled the nearly unprecedented […]
Let’s go down to the movie theater to watch Sinners, the new Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan movie opening in theaters this weekend. Written and directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ryan Coogler, who has collaborated […]
Sean Penn has won best supporting actor at the 2026 Oscars for One Battle After Another, putting him in esteemed company as just the fourth man ever to win three acting Oscars. The result feels […]