What’s the worst Academy Branch?

i would pay $1000 a ticket to see kieran culkin mozart / jeremy strong salieri

👀👀👀 Everyone should be refreshing The Ringer every 15 min this morning until my epic 4,000 word piece about the greatest Best Picture follow-ups posts

The big piece I’ve been working on for a long time is finally done! In honor of Mickey 17 (Bong Joon-ho’s long-awaited Parasite followup), I rank the 17 Greatest Best Picture Title Defenses! theringer.com/2025/03/06/mov…

Somehow I find it really comforting to know that Tilda Swinton has seen Shrek 2

In case you missed it yesterday and you’d like to start your weekend off with a fun read: I wrote about the history of directors following up Best Picture wins, and ranked the 17 greatest BP follow-ups (in honor of Mickey 17)! theringer.com/2025/03/06/mov…

Today’s episode of The Daily is completely enraging but it’s an absolute Must Listen

Just unreal to unleash a top 10 in 2025 that has movies directed by Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, and Mel fucking Gibson. Jesse Watters gotta be jealous of this list.

The Flow Oscar statue is exhibited at the Latvian National Museum of Art and people are waiting for more than an hour to see it!

The only explanation is that Ben Affleck had a real-life My Old Ass scenario, except instead of his future self telling him to stay away from guys named Chad, he was told to marry celebrities named Jennifer.