How “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Became This Year’s Oscar Unicorn

The movie has taken an unusual route to a potential awards-night sweep.

Spring Theatre Preview

Adrienne Warren stars in “Room,” Rachel Chavkin directs the satire “The Thanksgiving Play,” accident-prone Brits put on “Peter Pan Goes Wrong,” and more.

The Undeniable Royalty of Angela Bassett

The actress talks about her student days at Yale, embodying Tina Turner, her Oscar nomination for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” and her funny side.

A Museum Soup-Thrower’s Worst Nightmare

Patrick Bringley, who spent a decade as a guard at the Met, tours his old workplace and considers the people between the Picasso and a fistful of mashed potatoes.

What Became of the Oscar Streaker?

After Robert Opel dashed naked across the stage in 1974, he ran for President and settled into the gay leather scene, in the orbit of Robert Mapplethorpe and Harvey Milk.

The Best Actress Race at the Oscars Is Crowded, Unpredictable, and Weird

Andrea Riseborough came out of nowhere to earn a nomination, whereas Michelle Yeoh and Cate Blanchett appear to be the front-runners.

The Seedy Glamour of Nineteen-Seventies Hollywood

Ave Pildas set up his camera on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, capturing a now vanished world of tourists and drifters and junkies and aspiring starlets.