This!

Screaming! Jeff Hiiller winning an Emmy for Somebody, Somewhere is the most deserved Emmy win in years! Amazing. Sometimes, it's the best performance that wins

"Twinless" is the best film I've seen this year at @siffnews.bsky.social. Loved hearing director/writer/co-star James Sweeney at Q&A, who impressively created a cohesive whole between funny, cringe, sad, sweet, yearn. And Dylan O'Brien, all of him, in twin roles, proves that he's a star

Huge congratulations to @steppenwolfthtr.bsky.social and Branden Jacobs Jenkins for the Pulitzer Prize awarded to "Purpose"! I loved the Steppenwolf world premiere production last year which transferred almost intact to Broadway. So deserved! playbill.com/article/bran...

Darn, couldn't stop sobbing after seeing episode 8 of "The Pitt". I haven't cried at a TV show in forever (or maybe ever?!). Devastating writing. And this episode seals for me Noah Wyle's deserved Emmy for Best Actor in a Drama.

Carrie Coon's beautifully, heart-wrenchingly delivered monologue is one of the many highlights of "The White Lotus" S3 finale. Knew she would crush this pop culture moment, having loved her early performances in Chicago theater (Virginia Woolf, The March, Three Sisters, The Real Thing)

I thought The White Lotus S3 finale was satisfying. As Mike White said in the podcast, the show has always been character-driven, not plot-driven.The finale with its Greek tragedy and Shakespearean direct and indirect references was a fitting end to this reflective, melancholy season. Loved it!

Any one of the "11,000 global members with diverse viewpoints" who cannot condemn the physical assault of a filmmaker does not belong in the Academy. This is a woefully insufficient response, literally worse than silence.

The Academy should just have continued to say nothing (which is a choice) instead of stringing together words that still mean nothing. What a bunch of clowns.

There were a lot of tantalizing and memorable elements in the #Severance season 2 finale, but the use of Mel Torme's haunting, elegiac version of 'Windmills of Your Mind" as the song track for the final sequence was sheer perfection.

Mike White writes the most complex, most surprising, and most batshit crazy monologue in 3 seasons of #TheWhiteLotus and gets Oscar winner Sam Rockwell to deliver it who then ate like its his last meal. Amazing, a masterclass in acting that deserves the Emmy for Guest Performance.

Spent a terrific day at the Members Opening Weekend of the @aiww.bsky.social exhibition at @seattleartmuseum.bsky.social, the largest ever US retrospective of his work. Amazing, overwhelming, relevant.

What a wonderful surprise to see 4 time Oscar nominee and 8 time Tony nominee (with one win) Jane Alexander pop up in #Severance S2 ep 8. Great performances from her, James Le Gros, and the invaluable Patricia Arquette. Plus stark, moody direction from Ben Stiller and cinematography.

This year's Anoralist Oscars turn out to have drawn a larger audience than last year's Barbenheimer Oscars, so maybe we can finally put to rest the idea that the popularity of the movies in the race has any correlation to interest in the show?

A simple post-Oscar reminder, because a few of you clearly could use it: Artists owe you nothing but the work they do.

For the 4th straight year, Best Actress was a nailbiter. Wow.

What I loved about tonight's #Oscars : Sean Baker's 4 wins; the wins for "I'm Still Here", "No Other Land", "Flow", the costume design and cinematography presentations, Mick Jagger, Conan as host. What I didn't love: too many musical numbers, no supporting performers won acting awards

And with that, ANORA director Sean Baker just tied Walt Disney’s record for 4 Oscar wins in the same night.

Sean Baker won FOUR Oscars tonight. I think he's tied with Walt Disney. Stunning

Another song from The Wiz at the Oscars?

Finally!

First Oscar for Brazil! I'm over the moon!

This!

My out-on-a-limb take: The montage, the Oz songs, and Conan adds up to a perfectly good-natured opening. It's fine. It's all fine.

I hope Brazil will make history tonight.

Resharing my interview with the amazing Fernanda Torres for LA Times about the significance of the Oscar nominations for I’M STILL HERE. Rooting for her and for Brazil tonight. I’M STILL HERE could become Brazil’s first Oscar winning film. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

It's my favorite day of the year #Oscars Sunday! Have read everyone's predictions and also done mine, but rooting for my personal favorites: "I'm Still Here" AND Fernanda Torres, "The Substance", "Anora", "Wicked", "Nickel Boys" for adapted screenplay, "Incident"

Yes!!! This whole "Oscars don't go to real people see" is exhaustingly moronic and every year comes from people who don't even care or watch movies! I'm a real person and I've watched EVERY nominated film in all categories!

A personal note about the @katiephangshow.bsky.social:

Conclave, Timothee Chalamet, and Demi Moore winning SAG top awards is an interesting development one week before the Oscars! I love it!

Welcome to the Philippines #MichelinGuide! Finally, #FilipinoFood has arrived on the global culinary stage. Can't wait to see which restaurants in Manila, Tagaytay, Cavite, and Cebu will get Michelin Stars. Coming last quarter of 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZUE...

White Lotus is back! Of course, I love Thailand so this would be my favorite season! Ep 1 MVPs- Natasha Rothwell returning as Belinda, Carrie Coon, Aimee Lou Wood, Blackpink's Lisa and her natural radiance, Patrick Schwarzenegger and his natural derriere, and a jawdropping, unexpected cast member!

I would LOVE to see a Fernanda Torres win at the Oscars..she gave the best performance in the category

Quite a movie week for me, including one of my most anticipated films of 2025! #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched @letterboxd.social I'm Still Here Sugarcane The Black Box Diaries Mickey 17

Just came from an advanced screening of #Mickey17, Bong Joon-Ho's first movie after winning tons of Oscars for "Parasite". I enjoyed it a lot; there were some significant deviations from the book; a lot is broad and loud and showy. Great genre film, more "Snowpiercer" than "Memories of Murder".

Whoa! "Anora" won both the Directors Guild prize for Sean Baker and the Producers Guild prize tonight, plus the Critics Choice for Best Picture last night. I guess we now have the frontrunner for this unpredictable, somewhat more of a hot mess than usual Oscars season. "Anora" is a worthy one!

Whoa! Since 1950, only 8 times did the DGA winner not win the Best Director Oscar. Love this for Anora and Baker.

Majestically heartbreaking and essential, "I'm Still Here" poses the question how do you live with hope and resoluteness under an authoritarian regime? Fernanda Torres is monumental, with the interrogation scene an acting masterclass. Reminded me of my childhood in 1980s Manila under martial law.

Whoa! Anora winning over everyone else is a surprise! (And for the record I loved it)

Catching up on the Oscar-nominated films #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

RaMell Ross' "Nickel Boys" is such a unique cinematic experience I am not sure how you can stack it up vs. the other 9 Oscar Best Picture nominees. The first person cinematography is impressive, though showy. The real star is Ross and Jocelyn Barnes' tight, expressionistic screenplay adaptation

(h/t: @the.language.nerds)

And here's your daily jawdropping twist to the Emilia Perez Oscar controversy www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

It would be nice to see mainstream media acknowledge that every alarmist in their ranks about Trump and his henchmen has been correct, and every single "Let's all calm down" guy--a posture of blasé detachment that is consistently over-rewarded in legacy media--has called it wrong from day one.

My gawd #TheTraitorsUS is a hot mess this season and I love it! Casting Carolyn who ended up as the unlikely runner-up of her "Survivor" season as a traitor, despite seeming to be the most unlikely, most anti-traitor traitor ever, was brilliant!

Vile. Also, why didn't Netflix with all the money it threw at the Emilia Perez Oscar campaign that netted 13 nominations, many undeserving if I may add, not clean this up?!!! variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Amazing

Truth!

A few years ago, when I covered the Oscars regularly, I wrote a long piece about Green Book, which I really disliked, doing my part to make it the villain of that awards season. So did a lot of other people who shared my feelings. Emilia Pérez haters: You might want to look at how that turned out.

Good morning! I've never done my "Why Oscars Matter" spiel on bsky! So here 'tis. I talk a lot to programmers and archivists about how hard it is to get corporate permission to screen rare films, let alone restore them. The FIRST question the suits will ask is "Did it win an Oscar?" Every. Time.