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Choire Sicha in The Awl

Feb 9, 2015

The 2015 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Short Films, In Order

Here’s a look at the live-action shorts nominated for an Oscar in 2015. (Here’s a look at the animated shorts category, too.) Most of these are really good! I SAID MOST. Here they are from best and winningest to… least best.

Ken Layne in The Awl

Feb 22, 2013

Critic Notices Academy Awards Ignore “Excellent Movies” That Are Fun To Watch

It even had genital torture like that neocon blogger movie about killing Bin Laden!

Alex Balk in The Awl

Feb 27, 2012

Historic Moment Recounted

Someday, when the history of the Internet is assembled, this accounting of the first time someone live-Tweeted the Oscars will provide invaluable source material to whoever is forced, probably out of the worst kind of desperation and basic human need, to write it.

Brent Cox in The Awl

Feb 21, 2012

The True Story Of The Oscar Streaker

It was Tuesday night, April 2, 1974, and America and various other parts of the planet were…

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Feb 13, 2012

Your Ultimate Oscar Ballot Cheat Sheet for Nominated Shorts

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Feb 27, 2011

The Oscars! Let’s Discuss Our Oscar Feelings Together

Alex Balk in The Awl

Feb 25, 2011

Save The Date: Oscar Liveblog

Please join us here at, oh, Oscar-time, on Sunday, when our very own Choire Sicha and you will be discussing the Academy Awards with various and sundry as they happen. (This is sometimes referred to as “liveblogging.”) Warning: we have a premonition this is going to be a horrifying Oscars! See you then! Or not!