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From the overblown to the ordinary? Met Gala 2027 to celebrate ‘poetics of everyday’

Event regarded as Oscars of fashion industry replaces John Galliano retrospective with homage to the ‘extra ordinary’ A few months after the planned John Galliano Met Gala retrospective was cancelled amid a backlash focused on the designer’s past, a more commonplace theme has been announced: “extraORDINARY: fashion and the poetics of the everyday.” It has left some commentators speculating that celebrities might replace the couture “omelette dresses” and four-part red-carpet performances with jeans and a nice top. While the dress code for the next Met Gala, which will be held on 3 May 2027, is

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Oscar Predictions: Production Design — Could Something as Innovative and Cool as ‘Backrooms’ Find Love?

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety chief awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect […]

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Is This the Gayest Oscar Season Ever?

Gay men love the Oscars. But the Oscars haven’t always shown the same love back. It’s been more than 20 years since “Brokeback Mountain,” after a charmed precursor season, lost the best picture trophy to “Crash,” and though there have been breakthroughs since then — “Moonlight,” to name the most famous of them — there […]

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Oscar Predictions: Animated Feature — A New and Competitive Era for the Medium That Isn’t Just for Kids

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety chief awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect […]

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Oscars Will ‘Always’ Reward Human Excellence in AI Era, Academy Chiefs Say as They Leave Door Open to International Feature Rule Tweaks (EXCLUSIVE)

The Oscars will keep honoring human-driven work as AI spreads through filmmaking, Academy president Lynette Howell Taylor tells Variety in Tokyo, while the Academy’s leadership expects to keep refining the international feature rules in the first year of a new route that lets festivals qualify films. Howell Taylor, Academy CEO Bill Kramer, chief membership, impact […]

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‘You Can See Everything’ Ruled Ineligible for DGA Feature Prize, Will Compete Only in Documentary Category

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for “You Can See Everything,” now playing in theaters. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s “You Can See Everything” will not be in the running for the Directors Guild of America Awards top prize this season. A representative for the DGA confirmed to Variety that the A24 documentary about […]

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Why ‘You Can See Everything’ Could Win Best Picture at the Oscars

The word disruptor is a vividly descriptive one, and it’s almost always applied to an individual. But it doesn’t have to be. Take the rule-busting, category-smashing, one-of-a-kind-because-you’ve-never-seen-anything-of-its-kind “You Can See Everything,” a movie that in one weekend has turned the movie landscape topsy-turvy. “You Can See Everything” is such an unprecedented cinematic wild card that […]

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‘You Can See Everything’ Sets Oscar Campaigns for Best Picture, Supporting Actress and More Categories

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for “You Can See Everything,” now playing in theaters. “You Can See Everything” may rewrite the rules of the Oscar season. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s A24 documentary, which follows the Theranos founder through the 34 days before she reported to prison and keeps rolling afterward, opened to […]

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Laika Submits Original Song From ‘Wildwood’ for Oscars, ‘The Better Part of Bravery,’ Performed by The Decemberists (EXCLUSIVE)

Laika will submit “The Better Part of Bravery” from the animated feature “Wildwood” for consideration in the original song category at the Academy Awards, Variety has learned. The song is performed by The Decemberists and plays at the end of the film. “Wildwood” follows teenager Prue McKeel (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) on a desperate mission to […]

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Ava DuVernay’s Doc ‘14th’ to Submit New Original Song by Brittany Howard and Robert Glasper for Oscars Consideration (EXCLUSIVE)

Ava DuVernay’s nonfiction sequel “14th” is set to world premiere as the closing-night film of the New York Film Festival on Friday, Oct. 9, and Variety can exclusively reveal that the film will feature a new original song, “Makings of Tomorrow,” written and performed by Brittany Howard and Robert Glasper. Netflix will mount an Oscar […]

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Israel’s Oscar Contender ‘Tell Me Everything’ Dropped From Swiss Queer Film Festival After Palestinian Groups’ Boycott Threats

A queer film festival in Switzerland has dropped an Israeli film from its lineup after receiving boycott threats from a collective of local groups including a Palestinian film festival. Everybody’s Perfect, which describes itself as a festival of queer cinema based in Geneva, had initially unveiled Moshe Rosenthal’s “Tell Me Everything” as part of its […]

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Oscars: Syria Selects Doc ‘The Other Side of the Sun’ for International Feature Race, Marking First Entry Since Fall of Assad Regime

Tawfik Sabouni’s documentary “The Other Side of the Sun,” which world premiered as part of the Panorama section of this year’s Berlinale, has been chosen to represent Syria in the best international feature film category of the 2027 Academy Awards. It marks the country’s first Oscar candidate since the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s […]