Starting the Oscars earlier seemed like the right move for ABC! Just look at the ratings. The 2024 Oscars began shortly after 7/6c, and the three-and-a-half-hour show (it ended on time!) reached a four-year high (since the 2020 broadcast) in viewers, with 19.5 million tuning in. The awards show also received a 3.81 rating among
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Ponyo is a magically fantastical Japanese animated film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. This fantasy tale revolves around the life of Ponyo, a goldfish who comes to the seashore trapped in a glass jar and is set free by a five-year-old human boy, Sōsuke. Happy to be free, Ponyo affectionately licks the wound on
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After the show, it’s time to party! See photos from the afterparty of all afterparties in Hollywood. After the show, it was time to party! The Vanity Fair Oscars afterparty is always a hit. Bringing artists together — from Academy Awards winners to other guests — the fashion game never fails to go above and
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A successful fantasy plunges readers into a world that feels removed from the ordinary, while still maintaining a familiarity or unexpected resonance. National Book Award finalist Traci Chee’s Kindling does exactly that as it takes readers into an unknown world ravaged by a war in which “kindlings”—teenage warriors trained since childhood to wield a dangerous
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The 96th Academy Award ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 10th on ABC. Preview: ‘Oppenheimer’ dominated the 96th annual Academy Awards with wins for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor, while ‘Poor Things’ landed four Oscars, including Best Actress for Emma Stone. ‘Barbie,’ ‘The Zone of Interest,’ and ‘The Holdovers’ all nabbed awards
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Small MPOX outbreaks have recently occurred in New York, North Carolina, and Colorado. But while the virus behind the painful skin infection caused a national public health emergency in 2022, the U.S. officially declared an end to the emergency over a year ago. Since then, there has been little national messaging around what, if anything,
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At the 96th Oscars, it truly was an honor just to be nominated. In the smartest and classiest move of an enjoyable Oscar night that clocked in decidedly under the allotted time—not that it should be hard to get the job done in three and a half hours—the presentation of the acting categories allowed each
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Monkey D. Luffy, captain of the Straw Hat Pirates, is well-known for his courage and hard-to-break soul in One Piece. However, like every courageous hero out there, he, too, has faced some defeats in his lifetime. Here is a list of the occasions when Luffy met barriers he couldn’t overcome. These examples highlight more than
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences closed out an eventful awards season with the 2024 Oscars ceremony on Sunday. The 96th annual Academy Awards were handed out live at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California, during a ceremony hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. Oppenheimer and Poor Things dominated the night with the most wins. Cillian Murphy
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Pyper Braun as Alice jn ‘Imaginary.’ Photo Credit: Parrish Lewis. Opening in theaters on March 8th, ‘Imaginary’ is the latest horror from the increasingly prolific –– and increasingly hit-or-miss Blumhouse team. Sadly, the story of a long-dormant childhood fear factor coming back to haunt a woman and her family is more firmly in the “miss”
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