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Saoirse Ronan Has Two Shots at Making This Her Oscar Year

Her passion project The Outrun and her first maternal role in Blitz. One is a better bet than the other.
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What Makes Us So Sure Sean Baker Can Sneak Anora Into the Oscars?

And nine other unanswered questions hovering over the 2025 Academy Awards season.
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Bring on the Oscars Chaos

The 2025 Academy Awards race will be the most wide-open movie season in years. I can’t wait.

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  9. gimme all your money
    The Golden Globes Are Still Pay to PlayCan we borrow a dollar? We’re trying to get What We Do in the Shadows a Golden Globe or six.
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    76th Primetime Emmy Awards - Press Room
    Lamorne Morris Shouted Out Robert Downey Jr. (While Beating Him for an Emmy)Update: It’s a Tropic Thunder poster — Vulture can confirm.
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    Everything That Happened During the 2024 EmmysA play-by-play of the broadcast’s most comedic – and dramatic – moments.
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  14. vulture asks
    18 TV Archetypes the Emmys Should’ve HonoredCrash survivors, drug dealers, gay assistants …
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    Lorne Michaels Does Not Have to Suffer AloneOr, as Bowen Yang calls him, “Lauren.”
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    95th Annual Academy Awards - Red Carpet
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    All the Winners (and EGOTs) of the Creative Arts EmmysIf you weren’t on Shōgun or the “Fishes” episode of The Bear, you might as well have stayed home. Oh, except Pasek and Paul; they EGOTed.
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    How Did Best Song Become the Year’s Most Exciting Emmys Race?The Pickwick Triplets could bring Pasek and Paul their EGOT — if Mother Maya, Babs, ‘Girls5Eva,’ and ‘True Detective’ don’t get in the way.
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    So … What Will the 2025 Emmys Look Like?Will Rings of Power stage a formidable campaign? How about Squid Game? And should we watch out for Wednesday?
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    With Maria, Can Angelina Jolie Sing for Her Oscar?Singing, stars, drugs, death, comebacks — if Maria checked any more boxes, it’d be a tax form.
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    Seriously, How Did The Morning Show Score All Those Emmy Nominations?The butt of every “Reese Witherspoon in space” joke performed better in major categories than most critically lauded series on TV.
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    What to Know About 2024’s Second Emmys CeremonyDouble-hosted by Eugene and Dan Levy.
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    How Did the Emmys Get Writing for a Variety Special So Right?In diverging from the general Academy’s preferences, the writers put together one of the strongest categories on the ballot.
  45. vmas 2024
    Taylor Swift and Post Malone Lead MTV Video Music Awards NominationsSwift will go for a three-peat in Video of the Year.
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    The Traitors Finally Broke the Emmys’ Reality RutNow, can we get an Outstanding Reality Cast Member category, please?
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