The nominations are out and history was made this year as the oldest and the youngest actresses ever appear in the best actress category. Feb. 24th Seth MacFarlane will hosting the 85th Academy Awards. Get excited if that’s at all possible.

“If Carol really wanted an Oscar for Best Picture, Haynes should have had Harge and Carol reunite as he sewed a severed arm back onto her body and chased away the bear that mauled her, waving his torch and singing the song of heroic, indispensable men and dudes and fellas and lads and boys and brotherhoods, all along the way.”

There’s a lot of confusing information out there but this here is the real true history of LGBTQ+ nominees for Lead and Supporting Actress Oscars — a field in which queer roles are often rewarded, but out queer people very rarely are.

“Okay so Christian Bale plays… Mr. Ferrari. And Matt Damon plays… Henry Ford?”

Warland, and Oscar of Between, is refreshingly unconcerned with being there already. Instead, she deep-dives into the potency of occupying transitional spaces, the beauty of being in-between.

Pull up a chair, pour yourself a whiskey, and let’s talk about the whitest Oscars in decades.

Drew and Riese discuss this years slate of Oscar films, except FYI Drew did NOT watch “Mank,” and Riese did watch “Mank,” and it wasn’t fun, so!

Oscars 2010 “Live-Blog”/Open Thread with Autostraddle! Plus we make up for a year without film coverage by giving you our opinion on the 2010 Oscar Nominees! Get out your laptop, there will be lots of gay people, but no Jay Manuel.

“That’s the price you pay for thinking too far ahead, flying too close to the sun.”

Let us all gather around the proverbial cyber-fire to discuss this monumental evening in film AS IT HAPPENS.

And can we talk about Paul Tazewell, first Black Queer man to win an Oscar for costume design?

Master of None’s third season will focus on Lena Waithe’s Denise, celebrating lesbian athletes for Lesbian Visibility Day, Whoopi Goldberg is writing a superhero movie about an older Black woman, why Jasika Nicole won’t do cop shows anymore, and more.

“I am so sorry I made a wish on a monkey’s paw for a trans lesbian musical to get an Oscar nomination and it resulted in us all having to suffer through Emilia Pérez.”

I’m not sure how you like to enjoy Oscars night! But I like to order in take out while wearing Pjs and eat a pint of ice cream. The other part of my tradition is to check out what all the gays are wearing and pop off lil jokes!

It was a pretty exciting night for queer and trans folks at the 90th Academy Awards!

It’s time for our fifth annual Oscars chat and this is the best batch of films we’ve ever discussed! Join us as we journey through all the Best Picture nominees in anticipation of the 2024 Oscars ceremony.

“Does the Academy just love war? They want to GET INTO THE TRENCHES. Well not me. I prefer not to trench. Unless it is Lydia Tár’s trench coat.”

There’s a lot of LGBTQ+ material to celebrate in this year’s Oscars, including Kristen Stewart and Ariana DeBose making queer history with their nominations for “Spencer” and “West Side Story.”

Stories include a record-breaking number of LGBTQ-inclusive films garnering Oscar nods, the long road to The Favourite, Kristen Stewart’s hot new haircut, queer Sundance picks, Batwoman gets a filming start date, gay women role models on TV, the Intimacy Coordinator of sex scenes, and so much more!