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Return to Oz: A Diary of the 2025 Oscars

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I recently asked The New Yorker editor David Remnick whether he would ever return to the Oscars, which he has attended only once. He famously remarked, often attributed to Voltaire, in…

An Oscar night divided against itself

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story While Sean Baker’s Anora was the clear winner at the Oscars, winning in five categories, including Best Picture, Actress, Director, Editing, and Original Screenplay, it was the film’s producers who emerged…

Nicholas Ray's Hollywood Counterculture

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last Saturday, as part of Film Forum’s biweekly series of “Stories from The New Yorker,” celebrating the magazine’s centennial, I presented a screening of Nicholas Ray’s 1956 melodrama Larger Than Life,…