Academy Awards 2023
2023 Oscars: Multiplatform +7 Day Ratings Indicate Nearly 20M Watched Show
ABC, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ longtime broadcasting partner on the annual Academy Awards, shared on Thursday that the 95th Oscars telecast reached nearly 20 million viewers throughout the week of the ceremony across multiple platforms, an encouraging sign for a show that was coming off its two lowest-rated installments ever. This […]
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‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Producer on What Rapper Lil Jon Had to Do With Decision to Take Party Bus to Oscars
The makers of Everything Everywhere All at Once had a celebratory solution for the task of transporting everyone everywhere all at once on Oscar night: a fleet of party buses. The best picture-winning team hit the town in supersized rides, traversing from the 95th Oscars to afterparties including Vanity Fair’s event at the Wallis Annenberg […]
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Culture Shift: Putting the Asian Achievements at the 2023 Oscars in Perspective
Culture Shift is THR‘s new newsletter dedicated to exploring and examining the current frontiers of inclusion in the media and entertainment industry. Each bimonthly edition will give subscribers the first look at stories centering the experiences of people from historically excluded backgrounds, as well as a compendium of other inclusion-themed coverage you might have missed. Expect a […]
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‘Everything Everywhere’ Team Brought Dozens of Crew Members as Oscar Guests, Recalls Editor Paul Rogers
For Paul Rogers, whose work on Everything Everywhere All at Once won him the Oscar in film editing on Sunday, the night was particularly special because he spent it with dozens of people who helped make the A24 hit. “Everyone who was nominated [from Everything Everywhere] used their additional tickets to bring crew members. So […]
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How A24 Made Oscars History: “Lovable” Actors, Social Media Savvy and a “Wild West” Season
“This time last year, all I was hoping for was just a job.” That’s how Ke Huy Quan opened a tearful acceptance speech at the Gotham Awards in November, when the possibility that the Vietnam-born, Chinese-American actor might be nominated for — and even win — an Oscar for his performance in Everything Everywhere All […]
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Watch: Ariana DeBose Gets Starstruck by Morgan Freeman at the 2023 Oscars
Ariana DeBose’s sweet reaction to coming face-to-face with Morgan Freeman is likely how many would react if they were in a similar situation. The West Side Story star shared a Live with Kelly and Ryan clip on her social media, where she gets starstruck by the Invictus actor as he walks up beside her at […]
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Oscars: Inside Vanity Fair’s Starry Afterparty Where A-Listers Waited in Line and Justin Bieber Wore a Blanket
There’s a scene in Clueless that finds Alicia Silverstone’s Cher fielding a surprise phone call from her father, Mel Horowitz, played by the great Dan Hedaya, who wants her home immediately. “I expect you to walk in this door in 20 minutes,” he demands, a tall order considering Cher is at a party in the […]
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The Best Jewelry at the 2023 Oscars Seen on Rihanna, Florence Pugh and More Stars
Jewelry fans surely were satisfied by the abundance of statement necklaces, gemstone earrings, cocktail rings and brooches worn by the stars at the 2023 Oscars. Hollywood doesn’t always embrace jewels for red-carpet dressing so thoroughly, but on Sunday night at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood, sparkle indeed was among the night’s strongest sartorial themes. […]
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Sound Team Acknowledges Category Credits Issue As They Win Oscar: “It Would Be Great If It Was a Little More Flexible”
The thrilling work of the Top Gun: Maverick sound team, which placed audiences into Naval aircrafts amid high-flying action, won the Oscar for best sound on Sunday, delivering Academy Awards to the team of Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor. Despite the happy moment for the team, others who […]
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Zoe Saldaña’s Sustainable Fashion Advances With the 2023 Oscars
For Zoe Saldaña, the 2023 Oscars presented an opportunity to join the sustainability discussion and incorporate practices into her life — starting with the pinnacle red carpet. As an ambassador for Suzy Amis Cameron’s RCGD Global, the Academy’s official sustainability partner, and an awards presenter, the Avatar: The Way of Water star accessorized a Fall […]
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Oscar Parties 2023: Inside the A-List Events
The 2023 Oscars week brought with it days of A-list celebrations leading up to Sunday night’s 95th annual Academy Awards. Parties returned in full force this year for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic, with studios, agencies, fashion houses and other organizations like Vanity Fair, Elton John and MPTF all hosting their own […]
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Oscars Producers Talk Jimmy Kimmel, Will Smith, Absent A-Listers and Next Year’s Show (Exclusive)
On Monday morning, Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner, the veteran live TV and awards show specialists who served as executive producers of Sunday night’s 2023 Oscars telecast, spoke exclusively with The Hollywood Reporter about the Jimmy Kimmel-hosted show — how they feel it went; how they hope people interpret its forthcoming ratings; what they made of […]
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