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Since we couldn’t delight in a new #Oscars nominee group shot this year, we looked back at 36 years of classics. @zzzzaaaacccchhh writes vult.re/3vfxPjD
For nearly 40 years, the Oscar Nominees Luncheon — the high-profile, endearingly awkward gathering where everyone in attendance poses for a class photo — has been a mainstay of the award season. Prompted by COVID-19 concerns, that streak has been interrupted
We figured now be a good time to dive into the Academy archive. Below, you'll find all 36 class photos, along with details about that year’s major awards narratives and a guide to spotting notable luncheon attendees vult.re/3vfxPjD
"She's still giving us charming saccharine-laced pop, but she’s not the teen who sang about the best day of the week." On @MsRebeccaBlack's reinvention, @scorpiosanchez_ writes vult.re/32DQ0Dv
“Friday’s” role in pop-culture history plays right into the irony that permeates hyperpop: The remix is self-aware in its maximalism, melding perfectly into a new media landscape even more defined by overstimulation, just as the original did with internet culture at the time
.@tavitulle: "[Now] is an opportunity to change how these industries work; to show people with similar stories of abuse that they won’t be met with a void if they share them, and to show abusers that their actions aren’t without consequence" vult.re/3esqpTu
We spoke with 33 former assistants and interns of Scott Rudin Productions who worked for him from 1994 to 2020. Here, a portrait of a toxic workplace — one predicated on bullying and physical intimidation vult.re/3dFKYfZ
The portrait of Rudin that emerges from their stories is remarkably consistent: constant verbal berating, sleep deprivation, and an ambient, paralytic fear dedicated to fulfilling the most mundane tasks, like ordering food or binding scripts vult.re/3dFKYfZ
As assistants described it, much of the job was taken up by an Olympic level of busywork geared toward not setting Rudin off — whether that meant getting his food order exactly right or making sure a document was handed to him in the right font vult.re/3dFKYfZ
For filmmakers, the ending can be the most arduous part of moviemaking. “A filmmaker who’s not obsessed with endings? I can’t imagine any,” says Sound of Metal director Darius Marder. “You can have a wonderful movie, but if you don’t land it, it really doesn’t work”