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At the 96th Academy Awards, comedian and late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel returned for the fourth time to host Hollywood’s biggest awards show. In his almost 12-minute opening monologue filled with plenty of celebrity jabs, Jimmy made the star-studded audience let out a few laughs, while also getting mixed reactions from social media users. Also read | Oscars 2024 highlights: Oppenheimer is Best Picture, Cillian Murphy is Best Actor, Nolan finally wins Best Director Jimmy Kimmel speaks onstage during the…

Poor ThingsImage: SearchlightAfter enduring the pandemic and a pair of industry-stopping strikes, Hollywood seemed extra jazzed about celebrating itself at this year’s Oscars. While there weren’t a ton of genre movies on the ballot—truly, last year’s Everything Everywhere All at Once sweep still feels rather validating—a few did find their way to the podium.What Should Fans Take Away from Imaginary?Most notably it was Poor Things leading the charge for genre, including a Best Lead Actress win for Emma Stone for her…

Oscars may have snubbed Greta Gerwig-Margot Robbie's duo in the major nominations, but the audience's unfathomable love for the pink-tastic live-action Barbieland has spoken for itself. On March 9, just one day before the 2024 Academy Awards, Letterboxd released its list of ‘Most Obsessively Rewatched Best Picture Nominees of the 21st Century.’ Two out of these Top 10 blockbusters are those that earned a Best Picture nod at this year's ceremony - Greta Gerwig's Barbie and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. The full list…

For many Barbie fans, Ryan Gosling’s musical solo of “I’m Just Ken” was the highlight of the film. In a new episode of Rolling Stone’s The Breakdown, producer Mark Ronson discusses the process of making the now-Oscar-nominated Ken solo from Barbie, including the specific instructions he received from director Greta Gerwig. “I need the most maximalist thing you’ve ever written,” Ronson says Gerwig asked him. “That’s when we wrote the music for the Kenergy part, but we hadn’t written any words.” Ronson…

“I’m playing like shit right now,” Kristen Stewart says, laughing as a ball rolls forlornly across her pool table and comes up short of the pocket. “But that’s good,” she adds, “because we’ve actually begun talking. And I can’t very well have you over here and then just beat the shit out of you, you know?” House rules chez Stewart are that if you scratch, you can put the ball back on the table and give the other player two turns — a loophole we both take advantage of thanks to the distractions of a wide-ranging…

Now that the 2024 Oscar nominations have been announced, and the voting window for eventual winners is around the corner, awards season has kicked into high gear. Moviegoers had a lot of thoughts, feelings, opinions, and reactions to this year’s nominations, including how Greta Gerwig wasn’t nominated in the Best Director category despite Barbie being a bona fide cultural phenomenon, the highest-grossing movie of the year ($1.4 billion worldwide), and receiving eight other nominations, including Best Picture. Now,…

Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell won the award for song of the year at the 2024 Grammys for “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie. After Lionel Richie announced the winner, Eilish was visibly shocked. “Yikes… Damn, that’s stupid guys,” the singer said when taking the stage. Eilish went on to say that she was sure there was “not a chance” they would win. “I just want to say, everybody in this category — like that was a crazy list of incredible people! Incredible artists. Crazy right now,” she…

Mark Ronson “would love to make more music” with Barbie star Ryan Gosling, the music producer told Billboard this week. “We definitely had a lot of fun,” Ronson said of his collaboration with Gosling. Ronson, alongside Andrew Wyatt, produced the now Oscar-nominated soundtrack for the film, which includes Gosling’s Oscar and Grammy-nominated song, “I’m Just Ken.” “Ryan…he’s got amazing taste and great ideas, and he’s an extremely funny and talented musician and singer,” Ronson said. He…

Yesterday the Academy announced the nominees for the 2024 Oscars, and Barbie did very well for itself. Best Adapted Screenplay! Two original song nods! Ryan Gosling for Best Supporting Actor and America Ferrera for Best Supporting Actress! A Best Picture nomination! But alas, this has proven to not in fact be enough in an unhinged way.Spoilers of the Week | June 17thAlmost immediately since the dust settled on the nominations reveal, commentators have looked to the fact that both star Margot Robbie and director Greta…

Barbie scored eight Oscar nominations, but lead actor Margot Robbie and filmmaker Greta Gerwig were left out in the major categories of Best Actress and Best Director, respectively. Fans of the film reacted to the snub and took to X to point out how this reflects ‘patriarchy in the Real World.’ (Also read: Oscars 2024 full list of nominations: Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer leads with 13 nods) Barbie scored eight nominations at the 2024 Oscars, but snubbed Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig in key categories. Fan…