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Nate Jones is a senior writer at Vulture who mostly covers film. He writes the weekly Oscar Futures column, and has ranked Taylor Swift songs and A24 films.

  1. oscar futures
    Vulture’s Final 2024 Oscar Predictions in Every CategoryOppenheimer looks likely to win a bunch of trophies, but some major races are still up in the air.
  2. gold rush
    81st Golden Globe Awards - Press Room
    Why Did Pundits Underestimate Cillian Murphy?For much of the 2024 Oscars race, pundits have been skeptical of Cillian Murphy’s chances of taking home Best Actor. Why?
  3. dune: part two
    Does Christopher Walken Know He’s in a Dune Movie?Amid the telepathic fetuses and gigantic sandworms, Dune Two gives us something even more otherworldly — an emperor who talks like a guy from Queens.
  4. posterity
    A Beat-by-Beat Explanation of What Happens in TenetTurns out the plot of Christopher Nolan’s movie is also a mystery to people who have seen it.
  5. gold rush
    How (Almost) Every Best Picture Nominee Can End Up With a TrophyThe participation-trophy ethos is alive and well at the Oscars.
  6. gold rush
    Secrets of the Oscars Class PhotoWhat does it take to produce this image? We spoke to the Academy’s special events wrangler to find out.
  7. pretty statues
    Cheese: An Annotated History of the Oscar Class PhotoRevisiting 39 years of fancy midday Hollywood hangs.
  8. madame web
    Warning: The Infamous Madame Web Trailer Line Isn’t in the MovieHer mother was in the Amazon researching spiders right before she died. Just not all in one sentence.
  9. gold rush
    It’s Time to Talk About the Oscar Best Actress NomineesAs we get into the thick of the season, two women appear to have pulled ahead.
  10. gold rush
    Why Maestro Became the Oscar Villain (and Oppenheimer Didn’t)Everyone is rooting against a big, starry awards-season movie — for reasons that have nothing to do with the film’s politics.
  11. january movies
    Which January at the Movies Was the Most January?We examined the 130 films to open wide in January over the past 15 years to find out which year was the most January of them all.
  12. gold rush
    How Mad Should I Be About Barbie’s Oscar Nominations?How to complain about the 2024 Academy Awards (without everyone making fun of you).
  13. oscar futures
    The Snubs and Surprises of the 2024 Oscar NominationsBarbie suffers irrepressible thoughts of death, and Nyad does indeed exist.
  14. oscar futures
    Oscar Futures: Our Final Predictions for the NomineesEvery year, Oscar pundits say the current season is the hardest one they’ve ever tried to predict. And this year, they might be right!
  15. oscar futures
    Oscar Futures: Who Will Be Our Nomination-Morning Surprise?Which less-heralded contenders will snag a spot at Tuesday’s Oscar nominations?
  16. dream vacation
    Let’s Predict the White Lotus Season 3 GroupingsThe fun of White Lotus casting season is not just in the famous names; it’s also in figuring out who Mike White paired off.
  17. oscar futures
    Can Anyone Stop Oppenheimer at the Oscars?The season’s slumbering colossus finally woke up.
  18. acceptance speeches
    Can You Lose an Oscar With a Bad Acceptance Speech?A great speech can power an actor to Oscar gold. But is the reverse also true?
  19. oscar futures
    How Will Barbie’s Screenplay Shake-up Affect the Awards Race?The Academy ruled this week that Greta Gerwig’s film will run in Adapted Screenplay, not Original. How does that impact the rest of the Oscar field?
  20. awards season
    Who Will Win at the First Post-HFPA Golden Globes?It’s anybody’s best guess, and by anybody’s we mean ours.
  21. oscar futures
    Oscar Futures: The 12 Contenders of ChristmasLet’s get into the Christmas spirit by running down the 12 awards ho-ho-hopefuls with the best chance of nabbing Oscar’s Best Picture.
  22. bop or flop?
    Is Saltburn Stupid in a Good Way or a Bad Way?Emerald Fennell’s latest is either a preening, cynical film that’s far less clever than it thinks it is, or a delightfully indulgent mess.
  23. a twenty-four
    A24 Is Entering Its HBO EraThree projects last week heralded the coming of A24’s “more commercial” phase.
  24. oscar futures
    Can an Oscar Contender Be Too Timely?The Zone of Interest and American Fiction, two very different films, stake their claims on a Best Picture spot.
  25. oscar futures
    Oppenheimer Could Dominate the Oscars. Barbie Could Win Best Picture.Oppenheimer is primed to be a major awards contender. But the films that win the top Oscar these days look more like Barbie.
  26. golden globes 2024
    The Biggest Snubs and Surprises of the 2024 Golden Globe NominationsGone is the old Globes insanity, replaced by something safe and respectable.
  27. explainers
    All of Your Questions About the First Post-HFPA Golden Globes, AnsweredThe Hollywood Foreign Press Association is no more, but their show is still airing on CBS. What’s the latest with the scandal-plagued award show?
  28. oscar futures
    Can May December Meme Its Way Into Oscar Contention?Will an Academy that’s never nominated a Todd Haynes film for Best Picture get on the same wavelength as this blend of Ingmar Bergman and TruTV?
  29. timmy wéek
    So When’s Timothée Chalamet Getting an Oscar?The key year may be 2027.
  30. oscar futures
    As Awards Season Picks Up, Critics Are Giving Martin Scorsese His FlowersThe New York Film Critics Circle sprang for Killers of the Flower Moon, which won both Best Picture and Best Actress.
  31. oscar futures
    Oscar Futures: Can The Color Purple Strike Gold?The mainstream crowd-pleaser feels destined to light up the holiday box-office, even if critics are more likely to be respectful than besotted.
  32. oscar futures
    Will Napoleon’s Oscar Campaign End in Victory?Ridley Scott’s historical epic charged into the race this week, with a surprise worthy of Austerlitz: The movie is … funny?
  33. oscar futures
    Which Oscar Contenders Got the Biggest Boost From the End of the Strike?With the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, Oscar campaigning can finally start in earnest. Which actors will do well on the trail?
  34. theater
    The Making of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea’s Savage RomanceChristopher Abbott and Aubrey Plaza play messed-up people in love.
  35. oscar futures
    Oscar Futures: Is Colman Domingo a Shoo-In for Rustin?The Netflix biopic is being celebrated for Colman Domingo’s performance as the openly gay gadfly who organized the March on Washington.
  36. oscar futures
    Can Paul Giamatti Finally Get Nominated for Best Actor?The actor’s reunion with director Alexander Payne on The Holdovers offers the Academy the chance to make up for his Sideways snub.
  37. oscar futures
    Will a Martin Scorsese Movie Ever Win an Oscar Again?Killers of the Flower Moon feels like a contender, though there are concerns this august Osage downer could suffer the same fate as The Irishman.
  38. vulture lists
    The 46 Best Movies Over 3 Hours LongGot some extra time? Lose yourself in these cinematic spectacles.
  39. oscars 2024
    The Actors Are on Strike, But the Awards Shows Go OnHere is our (extremely early) forecast for the biggest Oscar races this (very uncertain) year.
  40. best of the fests
    The 14 Best Movies We Saw at Venice and TIFF This YearFall festival season has brought a bounty of awards contenders, star-making performances, and must-see masterpieces.
  41. tiff 2023
    I Watched Eight New Movies Directed by Actors. Are Any of Them Actually Good?Due to the strikes, the Toronto Film Festival stacked its lineup with actor-directed debuts. I watched (almost) all of them.
  42. tiff 2023
    In Dream Scenario, Nicolas Cage Confronts the MemesAt its best, Cage’s new film works as a parable for acquiescing to other people’s reality — a conceit that gets very specific when it comes to him.
  43. tiff 2023
    How to Make a Movie Based on Extremely Recent HistoryDumb Money hits theaters less than three years after the GameStop short squeeze it dramatizes. Director Craig Gillespie shows us how it was done.
  44. tiff 2023
    Can You Get It Up for Dicks: The Musical?Sure, Venice had Yorgos and Bradley and Sofia, but it didn’t have what is basically The Parent Trap with more gay incest.
  45. tiff 2023
    What’s at TIFF? An A24 Musical, Miyazaki, and the GameStop MovieThis year’s film festival starts with a bang: Hayao Miyazaki’s last film, a “semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and creation.”
  46. docuseries
    The Call Is Coming From Inside the CubicleThe creators of the new HBO docuseries Telemarketers started filming their own office — where they’d later learn they were part of a nationwide grift.
  47. anonymous in hollywood
    How Much We Make in HollywoodAs the strike stretches on, 19 writers, actors, and crew members shared their hopes, fears, frustrations — and salaries.
  48. explainers
    OPPENHEIMER
    What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Oppenheimer?Even this most rigorous of biopics must at times employ shortcuts and shorthand.
  49. double feature
    The Only Way to Watch Barbie and OppenheimerYou’re wrong. We’re right. Long live Barbenheimer.
  50. vulture bets
    Which Supporting Characters in Oppenheimer Will Die of Radiation Poisoning?Let’s go down the 70-person cast list one by one until we find the most likely suspects.
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