Oscar Predictions: Best Production Design — Will ‘Wicked’ Finally Bring Home a Win for Six-Time Nominee Nathan Crowley?
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual […]
Randy Newman, Music’s Most Biting Storyteller, Gets His Own Story Told: Ex-L.A. Times Critic Robert Hilburn on Penning the Singer-Composer’s Biography
For the last 55 years or so, you’ve had a friend in Randy Newman, if you have a thing for songs that offer eviscerating, uncompromising, even devastating dissections of the human condition and the American experiment. Or, sure, kids’ tunes, or laugh-out-loud funny ones, or memorable film-score cues — yes, all of those things, too. […]
Oscars 2025: Updated Predictions With the Rise of ‘Conclave’ and ‘Gladiator II’ Landing
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual […]
Lemon Coconut Sauce
This sauce looks bland from here. I know. All that white. But it’s totally not. I’ve had a jar of it in the refrigerator for the past week, and it’s one of those things that makes just about everything you put it on (or in) better. I go about making it in a mortar and […]
Buttermilk Pie
My take on buttermilk pie – a twist on a beloved, easy to make, classic pie. Favorite aspects here are a bright, tangy, and silky textured filling cradled by a buttery, structured, home-made crust. Buttermilk is the backbone of the custard filling. And in this version, maple steps in as the sweetener, the salt isn’t […]
Creamy Wild Rice Soup
Do yourself a favor and buy a couple bags of wild rice. Now cook up a big pot, be patient, wait for the rice to plump and split. Freeze some for future meals, and put the rest to use in whatever you’re cooking this week. I’m never sorry to have wild rice at the ready […]
Rose Shortbread Cookies
These are buttery, whole-wheat shortbread cookies – fragrant with rosewater, flecked with toasted nuts and dried rose petals. They have a crunchy dusting of sugar on top that provides a satisfying, sweet tongue scratch, and are punctuated with black sesame. I’m not going to lie – it took a few attempts to nail them down, […]
Simple Garlic Kale
Cooking kale for just a flash over high heat without being shy with garlic is my go-to method for cooking kale, or most greens really. You want it simple and fast, so the kale retains a hint of structure and plenty of color and vibrancy. It works for kale, chard, or spinach – your choice! […]
Baked Pasta
This is a hearty, rustic, warm-you-from-the-inside baked pasta casserole. It’s what to make when the weather report icons are snowflakes or thunderclouds. Mustard notes cut into the starchy goodness of potatoes and pasta. Dueling cheeses bridge all the components, and shredded cabbage and leeks deliver winter green. It’s the sort of thing you can prep […]
Agnès Varda’s ‘Complicated Passion’ Comes to Life in a Vital New Book
Film critic Carrie Rickey tells IndieWire about the iconic French New Wave director, the subject of Rickey’s inspiring and compelling new biography “A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda.”