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.

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!

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

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

“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.”

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.

Riese: “Does the driver count as a lesbian character do you think?”
Drew: “How could she not be?? Did you see her blazers??”

“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.”

When it looked like Brokeback was going to sweep awards season, I couldn’t believe it. Queerness wouldn’t be a joke anymore.

If you want to see women or people of color being celebrated, you’d better hope the 2014 awards are still on your DVR.

We’ve got data and timelines and infographics and conversation on topics including: white actors getting Oscars for playing people of color, white savior narratives, actors of color who actually did get nominated or win Oscars for Acting and so much more. Just updated for 2023.

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

If we ran The Oscars, there’d be a lot more documentaries, Harry Potter, Runaways and ladies…

The Oscars take place this weekend, and Jonathan Glazer’s acceptance speech for Best Foreign Language Film is likely the best chance at a mention of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians during the ceremony.

“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.”

It’s the 85th annual Academy Awards! Let’s cross our fingers, ooh and ahh at tuxedos and make fun of everyone!

The Oscars! Rich people giving rich people awards for making expensive films to make rich people richer!

If you have yet to see Past Lives, you should watch it as soon as possible. But I think you should read the film, too.

One already has a sequel not even a month after losing Best Picture at the 2018 Oscars, but let’s take a closer look.