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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. oscars 2023
    Oscars Declare COVID Over, Require Theatrical Release AgainFor the past two seasons, films could qualify by playing on the Academy’s in-house streaming platform.
  2. cannes 2022
    Cannes Returns, With Zombies in TowThis year’s festival opens with Final Cut, a zombie flick from The Artist’s Michel Hazanavicius. “I am prepared to be booed,” he says.
  3. cannes 2022
    What They Don’t Tell You About Booing in CannesA handy tip before you read the festival-reaction stories out of the Croisette in the coming weeks.
  4. role call
    William Sadler Answers Every Question We Have About Bill & Ted’s Bogus JourneyThe veteran character actor on the origin of Death’s Czech accent, creating some of the character’s most famous lines, and bonding with George Carlin.
  5. backstories
    The Hardest Day on the Set of The NorthmanDozens of viking extras, nonstop rain, and a village full of animals — what could go wrong?
  6. big dirk energy
    The Story Behind Mark Wahlberg’s Giant Boogie Nights PenisHow the sausage was made, if you will.
  7. oscars 2022
    How CODA Won Best PictureAll season long, Sian Heder’s movie was overshadowed by bigger, starrier contenders. But none of that mattered come final voting.
  8. oscars 2022
    What I Saw Inside the Room When Will Smith Slapped Chris Rock“This is the most unhinged evening of our lives.”
  9. oscar villains
    Against Every 2022 Oscars MovieIf you’re still not sure what to root for this year, at least you can come up with something to root against.
  10. oscar futures
    Vulture’s Final 2022 Oscar Predictions for Every CategoryMany categories, including Best Picture, seem like genuine fifty-fifty calls.
  11. what might have been
    Let’s Imagine the Deep Water Press Tour That Never WasWhat might have happened if Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas had set aside their awkwardness and jumped headfirst into a Deep Water promo tour?
  12. oscars 2022
    So You Want to Make Your Own RomaYou’re not a real auteur unless you too have lovingly crafted a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film.
  13. oscars 2022
    Is CODA’s Oscar Momentum for Real?Is the indie dramedy really a sneaky Best Picture contender, or do we just need something new to talk about in the final month of the season?
  14. vulture lists
    Batman Chins, RankedOf all the men who have become Batman, who filled out the chin area the best?
  15. vulture lists
    What If Every Movie Was Named After a Beatles Song?An attempt to rename every movie I could think of with a new title drawn from the work of John, Paul, George, and Ringo.
  16. injustice
    Zoë Kravitz Was Told She’s Too ‘Urban’ to Audition for Dark Knight Rises“It was like, ‘What does that have to do with anything?’”
  17. character actors
    The Character Actors Who Could Have Played the Penguin in The BatmanInstead of spending time and money to make Colin Farrell look like a middle-aged Italian American, why not just cast these guys instead?
  18. exclusive clip
    See Colin Farrell Rhapsodize About Tea in This Exclusive Clip From After YangWhile doing a Werner Herzog impression.
  19. oscar futures
    Did the SAG Awards Just Show Us the Oscar Acting Winners?In the past decade, the guild’s picks lined up exactly with the eventual Oscar winners four times.
  20. inside baseball
    In Defense of “Scriberia”Inventing Anna makes it sound horrible, and it was not horrible. It was nice.
  21. oscars 2022
    Can Anyone Beat Power of the Dog in Best Picture?A preliminary ranking of this year’s 10 Best Picture nominees.
  22. fake holidays
    Let’s Celebrate a Norwegian Art-House Hunk This WeekendIt’s Valentine’s Day weekend — or as I call it, AndersFest 2022.
  23. oscars 2022
    Why Your Favorite Film Got Snubbed at the OscarsA brief overview of why movies like The Green Knight and In the Heights were unable to make the grade with Oscar.
  24. oscars 2022
    The Snubs and Surprises of the 2022 Oscar NominationsHouse of Gucci crumbled, while Drive My Car and Flee sped toward gold.
  25. oscar villains
    Which 2022 Awards Contender Will Be This Year’s Oscar Villain?A preliminary ranking of Best Picture contenders ordered to most likely arouse social-media conniptions when they inevitably take home gold.
  26. oscar futures
    Oscar Futures: Our Last-minute Guess at the NomineesIn a season that has been anything but normal, prepare for some surprises.
  27. oscars 2022
    Which Borderline Best Picture Contenders Can Get Off the Bubble?Six films. Two spots. Who will fill out Oscar’s Best Picture lineup?
  28. oscar futures
    Oscar Futures: Who’s in the Lead As Voting Begins?With two open spots in Best Picture, Being the Ricardos and Tick, Tick … Boom! got a boost from the PGA. Can they both get in?
  29. oscar futures
    Oscar Futures: Can Power of the Dog Break the Netflix Curse?The road to Best Picture runs through Director and Screenplay, and Jane Campion’s Western has a fair shot at picking up both.
  30. sundance 2022
    18 Sundance Movies We Can’t Wait to Watch (from Home)From horror stories to news-breaking documentaries, here’s what’s we’re watching this year.
  31. extremely online
    We Were All Rooting For You, Paul Walter HauserThe acclaimed character actor went full Sirota on Twitter this weekend. Never go full Sirota.
  32. oscar futures
    Oscar Futures: How SAG’s Shocking Snubs Shook Up the RaceIt was a good week for House of Gucci and a very bad one for the house of Spencer.
  33. oscars 2022
    Your Guide to the Sad Moms of Oscar SeasonFrom Spencer to The Lost Daughter, this awards season has been an unofficial film festival about mothers in distress.
  34. crime
    The Life and Crimes of Robert Durst: A TimelineThe subject of HBO’s The Jinx died a convicted murderer at 78.
  35. brand twitter
    The Golden Globes Gave Us a Show After AllThe zombie-Globes still managed to maintain an essential Globes-iness: the sense that everything was five seconds from going completely off the rails.
  36. oscar futures
    Oscar Futures: Could Nicolas Cage Surprise Us in Best Actor?As the Will Smith buzz cools, the ostensible front-runner has taken a back seat in the conversation.
  37. interviews
    Even Kenneth Branagh Doesn’t Quite Know How He Got From Belfast to HereBranagh speaks to Vulture about his early career, bad reviews, and how he lost his Northern Irish accent.
  38. 2022 golden globes
    How to Watch the Golden Globes This YearYou can’t!
  39. oscar futures
    Oscar Futures: Can Spider-Man Swing Into the Awards Race?No Way Home’s superpowered box-office could sway the Academy into a more populist stance.
  40. return of the back
    The Backbreaking In-Joke in Spider Man: No Way HomeA tip of the hat to viewers who remember early-aughts pop-culture gossip.
  41. oscar futures
    Oscar Futures: How the Globes and Critics Choice Shaped the ConversationThis week’s set of precursor nominations are hardly definitive, but together they at least give a sense of who’s in the race.
  42. awards season
    Which Golden Globe Nominees Acknowledged Their Existence?We found at least 12 actors willing to publicly thank the scandal-plagued awards body.
  43. chat room
    West Side Story’s Mike Faist Wishes He Got to Sing ‘America’The 29-year-old Broadway veteran speaks about #VanLife, Bruce Davidson photos, and, yes, those John Mulaney comparisons.
  44. golden globes 2022
    Chastened Golden Globes Deliver Shockingly Good Set of NominationsAfter losing their NBC telecast to scandal, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was on their best behavior.
  45. oscar futures
    Oscar Futures: Is Nicole Kidman the New Best Actress Front-runner?Why Nicole Kidman’s transformative turn as Lucille Ball could earn her trophy No. 2.
  46. here we are marv
    There’s No Better Set Than New York CityAn iconic scene was shot on nearly every corner of the city.
  47. oscar futures
    Oscar Futures: Spielberg’s West Side Story Is Feeling PrettyThe long-delayed remake of the 1962 Best Picture winner couldn’t have asked for a better first week.
  48. fan theories
    Was This Season of Bake Off an Anti-Brexit Metaphor?The bakers who succeeded all hailed from a different Britain than the Brexit ideal, a multicultural nation of casual assimilation.
  49. oscar futures
    Oscar Futures: Can the Star-Studded Don’t Look Up Make an Impact?Early viewers have come away from Adam McKay’s asteroid comedy convinced the smartypants satirist has done it again.
  50. oscar futures
    Oscar Futures: Is King Richard an Awards-Season Smash?In Will Smith, the tennis-dad biopic has the Best Actor front-runner. But where else can the film compete?
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