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The Projectionist at @nytimes / Author of “Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road”

Los Angeles, CA
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2 years
People like to shit on THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK but this transition is still undefeated
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Still boggled by the people I know who are going out to bars saying “we can defeat this if we’re not afraid” and I’m like “this isn’t Pennywise it’s a PANDEMIC”
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Why did Lady Gaga wear this menswear-inspired look to the Elle Women in Film Awards last night? I transcribed her pretty stunning speech about it.
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Ryan Gosling just released a statement that directly calls out this morning’s Gerwig and Robbie snubs in best director and best actress:
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5 years
Only 3 black women have won Oscars for anything other than acting. 2 of them just happened tonight.
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3 years
Uhhhhhhhhhh are you fucking kidding me
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Once again I’m reminded of when I sat next to Kathryn Hahn at the Gotham Awards and she murmured “LOVE her” whenever any actress took the stage
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One of my favorite BARBIE details is they actually built these legs, it's not a CGI effect. "They're real — we scaled up Margot’s legs and made them," production designer Sarah Greenwood told me. "They were physically on that set so the little girls could come in and touch them."
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3 years
Let Glenn Close do an EASY A prequel
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10 months
I still can't believe Greta Gerwig got away with the final line of BARBIE
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2 years
Ke Huy Quan told me the wonderful story behind that TEMPLE OF DOOM reunion with Harrison Ford. (This is from an article I’ve got coming later this week but I just couldn’t wait to share.)
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5 years
Everyone is texting me asking what Spike Lee said that was bleeped... he began his speech by saying “Do not turn that motherfucking clock on!” And they sure didn’t
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Chloé Zhao just became the first woman of color to be named Best Director. She is only the second woman ever to win this Oscar, after Kathryn Bigelow (THE HURT LOCKER).
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As Spike Lee celebrates his first Oscar nominations for Best Director and Best Picture, I'm reminded of the 1989 Oscars, when presenter Kim Basinger went off-book to blast the Academy for snubbing Spike's DO THE RIGHT THING
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At the after-parties, many pundits said Lily Gladstone should've gone supporting. But there's more to a film career than winning an Oscar. By going lead, Lily told Hollywood to treat her like a lead. And she just booked another lead, which many supporting winners struggle to do.
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Hannah Beachler just became the first African American to ever be Oscar-nominated for Best Production Design. In addition to working on BLACK PANTHER (where she was Marvel’s first female production designer), she also did MOONLIGHT and Beyoncé’s “Lemonade.”
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They build the entire show around a Chadwick Boseman ending and then Anthony Hopkins won and didn't show up
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Here’s Denzel giving Samuel L. Jackson an honorary Oscar!
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KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON mvp Lily Gladstone is getting her major moment during its Cannes standing ovation
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Allison Janney said “yes I’ll do a Property Bros episode, but only if I can play it like Jessica Rabbit suggesting a throuple”
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Jennifer Lawrence will no longer star as Elizabeth Holmes in Adam McKay's BAD BLOOD, she told me. She came to that conclusion after watching Amanda Seyfried play Holmes in "The Dropout": "I thought she was terrific. I was like, 'Yeah, we don't need to redo that.' She did it."
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Presenter Denzel Washington rattled off the list of charities Samuel L Jackson has worked with over his career. “That’s what *he’s* been doing… I don’t know what *y’all* been doing…”
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With 3 acting wins, plus Best Director and Best Picture, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE has won more above-the-line Oscars than any movie ever in the 95 years they’ve thrown this show.
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Will Smith just smacked Chris Rock and said “Keep my wife’s name out of your FUCKING mouth!” twice after he joked that Jada looked like “GI Jane 2.”
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4 years
So what you’re telling me is Kate McKinnon could have hosted this
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3 years
Steven Yeun just became the first Asian American actor to be nominated in the Best Actor race.
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2 years
I think you want to see just a little more of how excited Denzel and Samuel L. Jackson are now that the latter has his honorary Oscar
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4 years
The best PHANTOM THREAD story I heard is they knew Daniel Day-Lewis probably wouldn’t pose for the poster, so Paul Thomas Anderson wrote a scene into the movie where Woodcock and Alma get their pictures taken to make sure they’d have enough art for the one-sheet
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Harrison Ford’s eyes are filled with tears after the premiere of INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY. It’s been an emotional night for him
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4 years
12 PUGHS A-SCREAMING
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The Avengers actors were asked to raise their hands if they preferred Bearded or Not Bearded Chris Evans
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4 years
Just talked to Choi Woo Shik from PARASITE at the Governors Ball and asked him what he thought was the most surreal thing about the Best Picture win. He said it was Song Kang Ho crying in reaction to it. “It’s really hard to catch Mr. Song crying.”
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Here’s BTS at today’s Variety Hitmakers Brunch, promising new music on the way...
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Critics Choice winner Sandra Oh just ran up to the CRAZY RICH ASIANS cast and she is living!
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This is the first time that anyone who directed the “Turn Down for What” music video has ever won an Oscar
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Best Live Action Short
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Wow!!
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JOKER won top prize at the Venice Film Festival... we have clearly opted for the chaos route that unlocks the “CATS wins best picture” ending
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Emerald Fennell is the first woman to win a screenplay Oscar in 13 years, since Diablo Cody triumphed in this same category for JUNO.
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I snapped this picture a year ago and posted it mostly bc I thought he looked hot
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This is a lotta look for Chris Pine
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The more realistic you make your Batman movie, the more he looks like the Babadook at a grownups-drinking-wine party whenever he goes to a crime scene
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The Cinderella flash mob but they’re dancing to the song from Annihilation
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Sam Raimi would never have put this moment in a frame so visually uninteresting
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Alfred Molina returns as Doctor Octopus in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’.
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The moment where Finn gives Rose a just-friends pat on the shoulder and then ditches her for the whole movie is 100x more brutal than Kylo killing Han Solo
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This is *my* ASMR
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“To the other nominees in the category: “Have fun at the Oscars, losers!” says WGA original-screenplay winner Bo Burnham, who was snubbed by the Academy. “How is this happening??”
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🚨The Oscars just announced their watershed new diversity and inclusion standards for Best Picture.🚨 Starting with the 2024 Oscars, a film must meet 2 of the following 4 standards to be eligible for Oscar’s biggest prize:
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Chloe Zhao is now the first woman to win the Golden Globe for directing since.... Barbra Streisand for YENTL
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4 years
Running this puts Black @nytimes staff in danger *and* it’s FUCKING DUMB AS SHIT. I stand with my colleagues
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ABC just played a clip of teenage Amanda Seyfried and teenage Michael B Jordan on “All My Children” and it’s really something
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2 years
Like Alfre Woodard told me two years ago…
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Rob’s Cheaper, Ad-Supported Version
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Mind-boggling that The 355 is only Lupita Nyong’o’s fifth live-action film role since winning an Oscar.
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“As successful as this film has been, the biggest fear on the other side is ‘What if this is my last chance?’” EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE star Stephanie Hsu told me, while recounting a story where she was called “Lana Condor” on the red carpet:
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Neon is breaking out the big guns
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Maybe she could start with the people who work on her show
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Ellen DeGeneres defends friendship with George W. Bush: 'Be kind to everyone'
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That was…. uh…. Not scripted
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3 years
Fran Lebowitz said it best
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Ben Stiller and Destry Spielberg Refute Hollywood Nepotism in Twitter Debate With Black List Founder Franklin Leonard
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Ruth Carter’s Oscar win for BLACK PANTHER’s costumes is also the very first Oscar won by Marvel Studios.
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He told me he based his French accent on the fashion people who dress him at Dior
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Robert Pattinson telling Timothée Chalamet he has “giant balls with a tiny cock” is one of the best cinematic moments of 2019.
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5 years
Here are your Avengers, with plenty of empty chairs meant for their fallen comrades
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Choosing to believe that the new MATRIX is about trying to find the right gay therapist
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The only Oscar nominees I care about this year are the ones who starred in Nintendo DS commercials
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POOR THINGS is like the bizarro-world version of BARBIE, sending childlike Emma Stone on an R-rated journey to the real world, featuring incredible art design and even more fish-eye lens than a Hype Williams music video. Sure it’s a lot, but most movies aren’t enough!
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"We lose every year to SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, so I didn’t prepare anything,” says WGA winner Nathan Fielder
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We are on Minute 5 of the ANNETTE standing ovation and Adam Driver has begun smoking a cigarette
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I knew I was gay growing up because my favorite part of every Batman movie was when he goes to a gala
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The last time I zoomed with Kirsten Dunst, she was drinking out of a Jesse Plemons mug. And now they're both nominated.
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You can’t have a FERRARI press conference without A. Driver
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Yuh-Jung Youn is now the first Korean actor to ever win an Academy Award.
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The actors playing Moore and Melton's kids in MAY DECEMBER are so good. You can tell *exactly* what they think of their family situation in just their glances and attitudes
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Laura Dern serving as Miss Golden Globe at age 15 (!!)
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Let Hugh Grant host the Oscars, I am deeply serious
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“The Idol,” or 50 SHADES OF TESFAYE: A Pornhub-homepage odyssey starring Lily Rose Depp’s areolas and The Weeknd’s greasy rat tail. Love that this will help launch the HBO Max rebrand, should slot nicely next to House Hunters!
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Monica Bellucci aggressively pronouncing directors' names at Cannes 2017 will always be my north star
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Shailene Woodley fuckin’ RAVING to Sufjan like it’s oontz-oontz house music... truly, God bless
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Is the ending of CHALLENGERS ambiguous or open and shut? Listen in as Zendaya, Luca, Josh and Mike debate the film’s final shots with me. (SPOILERS, obvi)
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Studios will literally push big films to 2024, fritter away the momentum from Barbenheimer, imperil theaters still recovering from the pandemic, and take on countless millions in delay-related costs instead of just reopening negotiations to end the strike.
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I wrote a mammoth, no-holds-barred oral history of MAD MAX: FURY ROAD. Tom! Charlize! All the Wives, War Boys, and even the Doof Warrior! They’re all here, and candid as hell about the difficult making of an against-all-odds masterpiece:
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WHO is writing Brad Pitt’s jokes this season
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Brad Pitt can’t be here to collect his best actor BAFTA so Margot Robbie reads his speech. “Hey Britain, I heard you recently became single,” it begins. “Join the club.”
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People still making “best Chris” tweets in the year of our lord 2020
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Two of the women in this photo just won Oscars. The other, Rachel Morrison, was the first female cinematographer nominated for an Oscar. Directors? Hire like Ryan Coogler.
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I had lunch with him in 2014, right after he was cast in Black Panther. It was still secret. But you could tell. He glowed like a guy who had finally been given the chance to start realizing his biggest dreams. Some of those came true. But there were so many more to come.
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I can confirm Anthony Hopkins offered to Zoom into the ceremony and Oscar producers turned him down... but another rumor said Olivia Colman was ready to accept for him, which as near as I can determine isn't true. She's busy shooting a movie and only showed up for her category.
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Timothee Chalamet: "I think societal collapse is in the air."
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Kristen Stewart nominated over Lady Gaga... should be a fun day on the internet
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After they cut to commercial, Samuel L. Jackson was waiting there patiently to hand Spike Lee his Oscar
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Jennifer Lopez strips to Fiona Apple in HUSTLERS and if you came of age in the 1990s you *will* explode
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@blondecoppola romy coppola directorial debut when
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Watching CATS is like stumbling upon an unholy and heretofore unknown genre of porn. Every time these horny fur demons tongue a milk bowl and start moaning I was certain the FBI would raid the theater
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Paul Dano, asked about the WGA strike: “My wife is currently picketing with our 6-month-old strapped to her chest. And I will go picket with them when I’m done here.”
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I am hearing incredible BARBIE goss at Cannes
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A fun tidbit Frances McDormand told me about the Macbeth movie
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Something wicked this way comes 🗡️ Denzel and Frances star in Joel Coen’s #TheTragedyofMacbeth . In theaters December 25 & on @AppleTV January 14.
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Crazy that Keke Palmer has two big star vehicles dropping at the same time (NOPE and her press tour for NOPE)
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When I saw *this* was the freeze frame they had selected for PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN... I knew the Oscars were about to choose chaos
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Please don’t forget that the brief for W magazine’s annual Best Pefrormances issue has always been “get there and humiliate them”
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Bradley Cooper just revealed to a shocked Spike Lee that ten years ago, he auditioned for one of Spike’s films and read for Spike himself...
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Jane Fonda taped her Britannia Awards acceptance video while getting arrested!!!!! Icon
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i SAID you were invited Ellen
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