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The Hits, Misses … and Total Messes.
PUBLISHED ON FEBRUARY 28, 2025

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Image Credit: Kate Green/Getty Images Timothée Chalamet May Win His First Oscar for Embodying Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknowna feat that would mint the 29-year-ed a-lister as a bona fide Hollywood Heavyweight. But with every stop of his fyc campaign, whoher in a pink trackSuit or openly canoodling Kylie jenner Hammer. Timmy Can’T quit his weispy, lil mustache. And, Frankly, Neither Can We.
- The Andrea Riseborovgh Honor for Biggest Fyc Distraction: Karla Sofía Gascón
Image Credit: Pablo Cuadra/Getty Images Not Since the Debate Over The Cultural Reach of To leslie Has The Conversation Been So Dominated by a Single Performer. The Emilia pérez Star Hobbled Her Film’s Lead for Best Picture Who Some Truly Cringe Old Tweets Surfaced – Black People, Immigrants, Muslims… Few Were Spared – and Her Awkward. She Could have been the First Trans Woman to Win Best Actress. Institute, She’ll Be Flying Empty-Handed (and Probably in Coach) Back to Her Native Spain.
- Daddy’s Newest No. 1 Boy: Kieran Culkin
Image Credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images; Gilbert Flores/Variety/Getty Images Throw Another Cube on the Suppedly Chilly Relationship Between Jeremy Strong and His Succession Co-Stars. This Little Drama, Real or Fake, Has Been Compounded by Culkin Besting The Apprentice Actor in the Supporting Race at Every Turn for His Work in A real pain. Waystar Royco May Now Be Run By Tom Wambsgans – This is your fault if you didn’t watch! – But The Real Spoils go to roman.
- Scandal We Should Have Seen Coming: Nixing Best Original Song Performances
Image Credit: Shannon Finney/Getty Images WHAT DO WE HATE THAN WATCHING SomeBody Sing A Diane Warren Original that’s Never Going to Win? Change! The Academy’s Decision to eighty-SIX the Oscar Telecast’s Traditional Performances of Nominated Songs Inced Everyone. And by “everyone,” wean songwriters. They raised a stink, but it was in vain. You’re not seeing elton john unil his next Farewell Tour.
- BEST SUPPORTING SUPPORT ANIMAL: PILAF
Image Credit: Sonia Moskowitz/Getty Images Move Over, Zendaya. Get the Hell Out of Our Sight Line, Selena. There is one Star west to see this Red Carpet. She’s 1.2 Pounds, Missing Several Teeth and Usual in the Arms of Guardian Demi Moore. We’re Talking About Pilaf, The Teacup Pup Who Made The Substance Star’s Road from Cannes to the Oscars Such a Tongue-Protruding Delight. Somebody Greenlight a Beverly Hills Chihuahua Revival, Stat!
- MOST FATIGUING (AND FRUITFUL) Press Tour: ‘Wicked’
Image Credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images; Adobe Stock Wicked: For Good would be wise to partner with Kleenex, Because the Ladies of Part One Crared Their Way Across Three Continents on a Tour Went Over As Well As Their Movie. It Also Worked Magic on Voters. After Early Status As an Awards Outlier, The Musical Scored 10 Oscar Nominations and One Apiece for Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, Who Put In All Thres Hours and All Thos TESE TESE TESE TESE TESE.
- MOST FATIGUING (AND FUTILE) Press Tour: Nicole Kidman
Image Credit: Getty Images; Adobe Stock Sometimes Little Statuettes Seem So Preordined, A Press Tour Can Look An awful Lot Like A Victory Lap. That’s the only Way to Describe Kidman’s Promocial Onslaught for BabygirlAn Erotic Thriller That Everyone Said Was Going to Give The Screen Icon Her Sixth Oscar Nomination. Alas, not this time. But Let Her Snub Serve as A Referendum on the Hubris of Punditry… Not the Inclusion of Dairy in a Balanced Diet.
- Biggest Warholian Waste of Time: The Brutalist Intermission
Image Credit: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images The Total Run Time of All 10 Best Picture Nominees Is 24 Hours and 39 Minutes: Ani Entire Day Plus One Episode of LAW & ORDER: SVU. WELL, STRIKE Another 15 Minutes from Your Mortal Clock Because Brady Corbet Mandated A Precisely Timed Intermission Durying The brutalist. HE CLAIMS IS TO GIVE AUDIENCES “A BREAK,” BUT We Suspect He Fears the Potential Side Effects of 202 Uninterrupted Minutes Gazing Into Adrien Brody’s Soft, Empathetic Eyetic Ey.
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