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Normally the VF Oscar edition is our cue to make wry sighs observing the immaculate snowy frost of Vanity Fair’s annual White Party — but a few angry voices have taken some of the fun out of that this year… Click to see the super-sized full-length trifold spread. (thanks to Mel)
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13 Feb 2012
The trick is not minding. When it was announced that the Academy was just going to toy with its fans by shaking the fuck out of the Best Picture race it was met with equal amounts of excitement and dread. Dread, because what fresh hell is this? And excitement because …
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12 Feb 2012
“They say the day you die, your name is written on a cloud.” “Who says?” “They.” “Never heard of them.” “Nothing in that one but rain.” “Think we ought to go home?” “Yes.” “Do you want to?” “No.” “Every time I look at the sky, I think of all the …
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9 Feb 2012
Recently, I was lucky enough to be invited on NPR to talk about the adapted screenplay race. It surprised host Rachel Martin that the screenplay race, it turned out, wasn’t so much about the individual screenplays as it was about the Best Picture category. This is probably the hardest thing …
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8 Feb 2012
Art and entertainment hover conspicuously like twins at a barn dance: which one do you pick? Can you even tell the difference between them? Do you pick the prettier of the two, or the one that’s more interesting to talk to? As films become more and more about the target …
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3 Feb 2012
The last time a film won the Best Picture Musical Comedy at the Golden Globes then went on to win the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director was in 1968. The film was Oliver! Despite it being 1968, one of the most tumultuous periods of history for the US, …
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1 Feb 2012
It takes a lot to shake the tree of discontent where the Oscars are concerned. Most film critics and media writers feel it’s borderline irresponsible to even care about such a silly contest, let alone write about it. The Oscars are then left to the hardcore fans of the Oscars, …
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29 Jan 2012
THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES Best Male Actor in a Leading Role ★ Jean Dujardin, The Artist Best Female Actor in a Leading Role ★ Viola Davis, The Help Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role ★ Christopher Plummer, Beginners Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role ★ Octavia Spencer, The Help …
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29 Jan 2012
Right about now, Harvey Weinstein is looking like the King of the World. For the second year in a row, he’s carried a Best Picture winner through to victory. The first film required more work, as The Social Network was creaming The King’s Speech at every major critics award in …
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28 Jan 2012
There were many different directions the Oscar race for 2011 could have gone but didn’t. They could have honored Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which is better than at least five of the current Best Picture nominees, and the darkest of its long and fruitful series. They could have …
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27 Jan 2012
The actors will chime in with their favorites this Sunday when the Screen Actors Guild awards unfurl. We can expect little surprises, I’m guessing, as the buzz for some contenders simply overwhelms the competition. It feels like a natural progression towards Oscar, this. And much will be decided. For …
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Rooney is the fucking man. I love her look.
Beautiful image. I SLIGHTLY wish they’d switched Adepero and Mia since Adepero had much more of a breakout year than Mia, but I’m just happy she was included.
And Jennifer owns this cover. Damn.
Why does it say “The Penis in Cinema” right next to Brit Marling’s face?
I agree about Adepero and Mia. Adepero is definitely much more exciting and much more of a new sensation. Mia has been around a bit. It doesn’t get hotter in Hollywood than the Mara/Lawrence/Chastain trifecta though. They are perfectly placed on the cover.
Mia <3
Mia S2
Either some of these women have been made to look like they’re made out of plastic, or there’s some bizarre photoshop going on here. Oh well, it isn’t fair to expect anything else these days. They did make uniformly fine choices for the feature, however.
I didn’t recognize a single person in that picture except Jessica Chastain. Some bizarre combo of photoshop+styling going on.
the legs poking out at the right of the page as it’s shown above make it look like there’s a dead body.
And Rooney Mara looks like Lulu here
i sincerely hope Adepero gets plenty of roles–she’s a major find.
This shot reminds me of when Lisa Simpson imagines the 7 Sister colleges personified as women in some Greco-ethereal setting…Also, I find it amazing that the spawn of Lil’ Phil Collins is now a glamour queen in Vanity Fair. Though I’ve never seen her act, as a die-hard Genesis fan, I approve
Normally the VF Oscar edition is our cue to make wry sighs observing the immaculate snowy frost of Vanity Fair’s annual White Party — but a few angry voices have taken some of the fun out of that this year…
Err… is race-wank EVER fun? Anyway, this may not be a Leibowitz photo, but it’s the same obnoxious style. Making a person look like an artificial version of themselves is one thing; making them unrecognizable is another.
Mia looks so sexy, sophisticated, poised, and classy. Rooney looks like she wants to vomit and chainsaw every woman in the photo shoot. Adepero is beautiful and has a gorgeous smile. Shailene is trying wayyyyy too hard and appears to be having (or on the verge of having) a massive seizure.
Err… is race-wank EVER fun?
er… I’ll just never joke about anything ever again, ok? Fuck trying to be playful. Let’s all be dead serious and pissed off for the next 4 weeks.
Are we sure that’s Felicity Jones and not a mannequin?
Olsen should’ve gotten the front cover. This is an absolutely major talent.
She ** LOL
I didn’t recognize Mia/Jessica Lawrence/Elizabeth Olsen AT ALL. They made them look EXACTLY alike. Jessica Chastin retains her unique, stylish beauty and that red hair is REAL. Yes. It is. Of course, Rooney popped with that Louise Brooks page-boy. Louise Brooks the silent film star of yes, “Lulu.” And isn’t Adepero lovely? She’s channeling Josephine Baker here, and I always thought she reminded me of a supermodel. It sure looks like she’s got the goods to become one. If one has a life goal to become one. And you wouldn’t know it to look at her but she’s the oldest woman of that group. And has been paying her dues, big-time for more than a decade in NYC.
Holy Bateman, Lily Collins looks like the spitting image of Liz Taylor(RIP)! It’s uncanny. @Noah: I agree Jennifer Lawrence completely OWNS the cover, an extremely beautiful statuesque girl. I forgot she was in two movies last year, so I guess that might have been the justification to position her front and center on the cover (though I’m sure being smoking hot also figured into that decision).
Every year I can never make out the identity of a single one of them, even though I know probably every actress featured at length.
They need to tone it the hell down with the makeup.
I can only make out Jessica Chastian, Rooney Mara and Elisabeth Olsen.
Was Jennifer Lawrence not in the cover last year? She’s not new.
Jessica Chastain was a real breakthrough, but she’s not very young.
Worse with Paula Patton – the woman has been around for a few years and just makes me think of how they snubbed her Precious costar Gabby Sidibe.
Whoever said the Collins girl is the spitting image of Elizabeth Taylor, that’s just blasphemy.
Olsen has a rather flat face, so they should have had her facing the camera directly rather than at an angle. It would have been much more flattering.
Because about 70 percent of U.S. adults are white (and probably more than 70 percent of VF’s readers are white), wouldn’t it be expected that most of the actresses are white? But really, who cares anyway?!
To be honest, the only person I could recodnise is Rooney Mara, and that’s only because she right now has to have that grim black make-up look. What the fuck has happened to the actresses? Why do all of them look the same? If Winona Ryder, Gwyneth Paltrow of Kate Winslet would have been on that foto, you wouldn’t have any problem in finding them. All I see here is lipstick and pretty facest, no actresses found.
That looks mostly awful. Continually reminds us that Hollywood considered young actresses inter-changable.
Are we really saying that Chastain is too old for this cover? Jesus Christ, she’s 30. Paula Patton is 36 and Adepero Oduye is 33. All three are luminous.
And yes J Law was on the cover last year, too. Mia was on in two years ago. And I believe Kristen Stewart has been on more than once as well. Such is life.
rooney mara looks like sphinx..
“Is it the girl, or is it the gown?” ~Cole Porter
Those dresses do a great job of making these young, earthy actresses look like ethereal goddesses from the early screen era. Makes me wonder why more women don’t wear this style (or is it just the fabric?) to the Oscars….
Olsen here looks like Kim Cattrall, but in other photos she looks like Maggie Gyllenhaal, and at other times like Sharon Stone.
Maybe, just maybe, Vanity Fair felt they were doing a good thing by putting Adepero in the center of the full spread. Even though it kept her off the cover.
VF is eternally averse to having actresses of colour on their covers aren’t they? LOL! Why is Lawrence on that cover? she is still riding the coattails of A Winter’s Bone or is this in anticipation of Hunger games? SMH
I just wish these ladies hadn’t been so lacquered beyond recognition, and individuality in some cases. I tried to identify them without the caption and managed three of the four (true) cover girls correctly, and Elizabeth Olsen. Mia didn’t register. Yet when I read the caption I did know who all are from their movies. Oh well.
So glad to see Brit Marling on here. She was spectacular in Another Earth and helped write what I found to be a touching, complex, and beautiful script.
All utterly unrecognizable. All utterly skelatal. I don’t know any women who look like these gals. Are you sure they are not brooksticks with dresses on them?
Chastain is – sadly – the only person of distinction. A truly awful photo of the rest. They all look like mass-produced mannequins…oh wait…
I only recognize four of those people. I think Mara and Lawrence look super duper classic. I like it.
Oh MARA! She looks incredible here
Lawrence is Jessica Rabbits younger unknown sister
Shailene needs a toilet break and Mia reminds me of Evan Rachel Wood.
Elizabeth Olsen, darling, there is no audition for Basic Instinct 3….yet
I have all “VF” issues since 95 or 96, can’t remember at this moment. This cover is, by far, the ugliest of them all.
“Because about 70 percent of U.S. adults are white (and probably more than 70 percent of VF’s readers are white), wouldn’t it be expected that most of the actresses are white?”
So VF should persistently not feature women of colour on their cover because 70% of the U.S.A is white? LOL!!! I cannot. It is too early for this. I simply can’t.
I wish actresses wouldn’t expose themselves to these kinds of advertisements. It portrays them as sex objects rather than artists.