Addressing the drama. Vanessa Hudgens seemingly reacted to her awkward encounter with her ex-boyfriend Austin Butler after the 2023 Oscars.
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2023 Oscars on Sunday.Will Smith didn’t return to violently clobber Chris Rock. He couldn’t.
The Fresh Prince is banned from the Academy Awards for 10 years. But no other celeb did much of anything either, save for the usual “thank you”s and crocodile tears.
Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty didn’t announce the wrong Best Picture winner. Producer Steven Soderbergh wasn’t on-hand to refashion the ceremony into a diabolical eyesore like he appallingly did in 2021.
Nobody was called “Adele Dazeem.”Instead, Hollywood’s biggest night was back to business as usual.This year’s winners went down mostly as expected in the top categories, even in tight races that were in a dead heat between two favorites: Brendan Fraser won against Austin Butler for Best Actor; Michelle Yeoh defeated Cate Blanchett for Best Actress; Jamie Lee Curtis beat Angela Bassett for Best Supporting Actress.A24’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once” took home Best Picture, just like everyone everywhere expected.BAFTA-winning German World War I film “All Quiet on the Western Front” was picking up Best Picture momentum for a while, winning some surprise technical awards, but ultimately settled for Best International Feature.But, despite the lack of surprise, the 95th Academy Awards telecast was at least tolerable. And these days that’s the best we can hope for from an over-three-hour experience that doesn’t begin with the word “Avatar” or the sentence “Good night, sweetheart.”Outside of some remarks from Russian political prisoner Alexei Navalny’s wife Yulia — when the documentary “Navalny” won — the ceremony was refreshingly politics-free.And thank God there wasn’t an unsynchronized trio of hosts like last year, or no host at all like the shaky situation from
.Addressing the drama. Vanessa Hudgens seemingly reacted to her awkward encounter with her ex-boyfriend Austin Butler after the 2023 Oscars.
95th Academy Awards ceremony Sunday night — and now a touching video of the two holding hands has gone viral.Bassett was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” which she lost to Jamie Lee Curtis, 64, for “Everything Everywhere All At Once.”Meanwhile, Butler was nominated for Best Actor for his role as Elvis Presley in the Baz Luhrmann biopic.The “Elvis” star lost to Brendan Fraser (“The Whale“) in what was widely considered to be a neck-and-neck race, with the two plus Colin Farrell (“The Banshees of Inisherin“) considered to be front-runners.Angela Bassett holding Austin Butler’s hand while he’s nervous…is exactly the kind of woman I imagined she was
Brendan Fraser has won the best-actor Oscar for “The Whale,” a transformative role in which he revived a career that was once so bright.
Brendan Fraser was in floods of tears as he picked up the gong for Best Actor at the Oscars in Los Angeles on Sunday night.The actor, 54, won the Academy's top accolade for his role in The Whale, thanking director Darren Aronofsky for “throwing me a creative life-line”. “So this is what the multiverse looks like,” he said, accepting the award with tears in his eyes and a lump in his throat.
Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor History was made at this year’s Academy Awards, thanks to historic wins for Asian actors Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan, along with costume designer Ruth E. Carter becoming the first Black woman to win two Oscars and best original song winner “Naatu Naatu” marking the first victory in the category for an Indian film. As expected, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” dominated with five wins, with “All Quiet on the Western Front” right behind it with four. In the meantime, acclaimed best picture nominees including “Elvis,” “The Fabelmans,” “Banshees of Inisherin” and “Tar” went home empty-handed despite 30 nominations between them. Here, Variety breaks down the biggest snubs and surprises of the 95th Annual Academy Awards.
went down largely as expected. However, there were some tight acting races that turned out differently from what many pundits assumed and some shocking slights in the less-glamorous categories. Here are the biggest snubs and surprises from the 95th Academy Awards.Austin Butler, who played the King, versus Brendan Fraser in “The Whale” for Best Actor was always a neck-and-neck fight. Even after Fraser was victorious at the SAG Awards, many thought Butler would still nudge him out at the Academy Awards.
Brendan Fraser came out on top to take home the highest acting honor at the 2023 Oscars!
Not all of the moments that happened at the Oscars were aired on television, but thankfully we have tons of photos of what happened backstage and in the audience during commercials breaks.
Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. “I wanted to say thank you for this acknowledgment because it couldn’t be done without my cast.”Fraser came out on top of what was widely considered to be a neck-and-neck race, with Austin Butler (“Elvis”) and Colin Farrell (“The Banshees of Inisherin“) also considered to be front-runners.
Jimmy Kimmel had some fun at Austin Butler’s expense.
awards season with the 2023 Oscars. The 95th annual Academy Awards will be handed out live at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California, during a ceremony hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. Going into the ceremony, led the pack with 11 nominations total, including nods for Best Picture and Best Director, while its stars -- Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu — all competed in the acting categories. The four co-stars are among the acting categories' record 16 first-time Oscar nominees, which also included Ana de Armas (), Austin Butler (), Colin Farrell (), Hong Chau () and Paul Mescal ().
Steve Pond‘s final analysis of the race, the year’s seemingly unstoppable breakout hit probably won’t sweep Sunday’s ceremony, taking all 11 of its nominations, but it will definitely win a lot. And despite the film’s momentum, there are still plenty of big potential surprises in store, namely in three of the four acting races.
It’s going to be an emotional night for Austin Butler.
Hollywood is descending on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles for the 95th Academy Awards.
Best Picture “All Quiet on the Western Front” — Malte Grunert, producer “Avatar: The Way of Water” — James Cameron and Jon Landau, producers
Colin Farrell is hitting the red carpet with his son!
Jessica Chastain singlehandedly makes a case for red and green being a perfect combination outside the holidays while posing on the red carpet at the 2023 Oscars on Sunday (March 12).
Baz Luhrmann has arrived at the Oscars with his family!
Austin Butler has finally arrived at the 2023 Academy Awards on Sunday (March 12) at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
Paul Mescal is hitting the champagne-colored carpet.