Hollywood’s biggest stars will gather on March 4 at the 90th Academy Awards to recognize the past year’s greatest achievements in film. This year’s fascinating group of potential Oscar winners could make history. Timothée Chalamet would be the youngest Best Actor in a Leading Role of all time, while Best Documentary Feature director Agnès Varda (Faces Places) is the oldest-ever nominee. Mudbound cinematographer Rachel Morrison could become the first woman to win for Best Cinematography in the Academy Awards’ 90-year history, and Kobe Bryant is in line to become the first NBA player to take home an Oscar for his animated short. For a refresher course on all of the award hopefuls, catch up on The Ringer’s coverage of this year’s nominees.
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February 27, 2018
2018 Oscars Preview: How Will We Feel When ‘Get Out’ and ‘Lady Bird’ Are Shut Out?
Ringer staffers and Wesley Morris prepare for two of our favorite films to fall short at the Academy Awards
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February 27, 2018
How to Win Your Oscar Pool: Picking All the Movies You Haven’t Seen
Documentary, Animated, Shorts, and Foreign Films—we watched them because we know you probably didn’t. Here’s who’s going to win.
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February 27, 2018
2018 Oscars Preview: Will the Fish-Sex Movie (a.k.a. ‘The Shape of Water’) Win?
Sean, Amanda, Chris, and Wesley Morris debate whether Guillermo del Toro’s sci-fi fantasy will earn Best Picture
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February 26, 2018
David Shoemaker on the State of Wrestling and Revisiting the 2013 Oscars
Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris weigh in on where the Academy went wrong five years ago
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February 26, 2018
The 2013 Oscars, Revisited
Five years removed from the strangest, most confounding ceremony in Oscars history, three Ringer staff members look back and decide whether the awards went to the right nominees
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February 26, 2018
The Biggest Acceptance-Speech Errors in Academy Awards History
Five years ago, Ben Affleck said "marriage is work." Somehow, that is not the worst thing someone has ever done while accepting an Oscar.
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February 23, 2018
A Surprisingly Deep History of Celebrities Being Attacked by Primates
As it turns out, Hayden Panettiere’s recent brush with a monkey was not an anomaly
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February 22, 2018
Make the Case: Why ‘Phantom Thread’ Deserves Best Picture
Please don’t make Paul Thomas Anderson the next Martin Scorsese. We’re begging you.
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February 20, 2018
A Guide to the Most Sneakily Intriguing Oscar Category
The nominees for Best Foreign Language Film include two movies from countries that have never won before, two from countries whose governments have openly criticized the filmmakers, and, perhaps most crucially for your Oscar prep, two that you can stream right now
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February 19, 2018
Yance Ford Made ‘Strong Island’ to Face Down the Past
The documentarian joins Sean to discuss making his Academy Award–nominated film
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February 15, 2018
The Delayed Gratification of Midwest Oscar Season
In cities like Columbus, you can hear about a Best Picture nominee for months before you can see it. Why does that still happen? And how does it affect the film?
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February 8, 2018
Make the Case: The ‘Logan’ Screenplay’s Oscar Nomination Is a Step Toward Superhero Prestige
It probably won’t win the award, but the genre-bending realism of the script proves that comic book films can be taken seriously
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February 7, 2018
Did the Oscars Blow Its Big Bet?
Nearly 10 years after dramatic changes were instituted to reverse the Oscars’ decline in relevance, the awards ceremony is in no better shape. Where did it go wrong?
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February 6, 2018
What It Means When the Best Director and Best Picture Awards Are Split
In four of the last five Academy Awards, Best Picture and Best Director have split. Could it happen again with this group of first-time nominees?
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January 31, 2018
Make the Case: Best Supporting Actress Is a Showdown Between Complicated Moms
Allison Janney and Laurie Metcalf have been neck-and-neck throughout awards season. So which mother figure will emerge at the Oscars? We have some thoughts.
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January 26, 2018
It’s Oscar-Movie-Slander Season, and ‘The Shape of Water’ Is Being Accused of Plagiarism
With 13 nominations, Guillermo del Toro’s creature-person love story is a front-runner at the Academy Awards. Will claims that the movie’s story was ripped from a 1969 play affect its chances?
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January 25, 2018
‘The End of the F***ing World’ (and We Feel Fine) and the Oscar Noms
Plus: Reflecting on the latest installment of ‘American Crime Story’
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January 23, 2018
Get Familiar With the 2018 Oscar Nominees
Here’s a guide to this year’s contenders, how to watch them, and what you need to know about them
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January 23, 2018
Oscar Season: The Snubs and Surprises of the Academy Awards Nominations
‘Phantom Thread’ picks up nominations, including a Best Director nod for Paul Thomas Anderson
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January 23, 2018
Snubs, Surprises, and a Staring Contest: The Academy Awards Nominations
With several surprising turns, including six nominations for Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Phantom Thread,’ this year’s Academy Awards field marks a major shift that could portend a new future. Here’s how it happened.
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January 23, 2018
Tiffany Haddish Turned the Oscar Nominations Into Must-See TV
Because who else on this earth could make Andy Serkis attempt to nae nae?
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January 23, 2018
‘The Shape of Water’ Leads the 2018 Oscar Nominations
But the Best Picture race, which includes ‘Phantom Thread,’ ‘Get Out,’ and ‘Lady Bird,’ is wide open
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January 22, 2018
The Realistic and Absurd Oscar Nominations We Want
Ringer staffers explore the films and performances they want to see recognized at this year’s Academy Awards
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January 20, 2018
The “Nobody Knows Anything” Oscar Nomination Predictions
Tumultuous recent times in Hollywood have taught us that nothing is predictable. But that hasn’t stopped anyone from acting like they know everything. Like, say, us.