And yet: "After years of Netflix and Amazon trying to produce and acquire their way to the top—despite the Hollywood old-schoolers who looked down their noses at it—Apple swooped in thanks to a movie it just picked up at Sundance." - Wired
Timing (and a relentless campaign): "After the bombast of awards season, it seemed fresh and fulfilling: a movie that told its story with a minimum of fuss and a maximum of heart. A movie that wanted only to move you." - Slate
Fourteen miles of fiber optic cable, 1500 lighting instruments, 14,000 PCR tests ... and a longer broadcast despite having fewer awards presented in full. - NPR
Truly, the first video games were silent. Can you imagine? But: "The hup, as it’s sometimes known, is the onomatopoetic vocalization of effort given by the player-character when initiating a jump." - Wired
"If Monster’s Ball is still the only movie in which a performance from a Black actress is recognized as superlative, does that mean that Leticia Musgrove is the best portrayal of a Black woman in the award show’s history?" (Hint: No.) - Vice
Kelmscott Manor "was a place of huge inspiration for an artist who dramatically influenced fashions and ideologies with fabrics and furniture, stained glass and wallpaper still produced today." - The Guardian (UK)
Mostly. "The Sackler name would remain on a list of donors to the museum’s Great Court, because the museum 'has always recognized the important relationships we have with each of our benefactors.'" - The New York Times
Two weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, artist George Butler took flights, busses, and other paths "to Odesa in southern Ukraine, where he stayed for a few days before continuing on an overnight train to Kyiv, at the heart of the conflict." - The Guardian (UK)
They're part of a nonprofit that helps provide NY artists "with places where they can work, a signature need for artists in a real estate market that has long pushed them to live in cavernous, defunct industrial spaces." - The New York Times
The 73-year-old actor was nominated, but didn't win, for his role in Pulp Fiction. "In an emotional acceptance speech, Jackson looked back on his career, noting his early, nameless roles, including what he described as 'Gang Member No. 2' and 'Black Guy.'" - Washington Post
Ariana DeBose was the first out queer actor of color to win a major acting award. CODA? First Best Picture win for a streamer. Jane Campion won her first, and Will Smith won his - not long after mounting the stage to slap comedian Chris Rock. - Los Angeles Times
This one will be heavy on the red carpet and after-party updates; we'll add other live update news sites here (here's NPR; here's Washington Post; here's the Los Angeles Times) as the show gets closer. - Vanity Fair
The group Artists Who Code is trying to help artists (and not just theatre artists) make a transition to the world of actual remuneration for skills - that is, technology. This might sound depressing, but the pandemic meant the group grew quickly. - Los Angeles Times
