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One Dress a Day Challenge

November: Oscar Winners

Death on the Nile / Angela Lansbury as Salome Otterbourne

Year: 1978

Designer: Anthony Powell

It's hard to believe Angela Lansbury didn't get an Oscar nomination for her delightfully over-the-top portrayal of the sozzled romance novelist--but at least Anthony Powell got one (and won) for her delightfully over-the-top costumes. This is the outfit in which we first meet Salome, and it really tells us all we need to know about her: she's flamboyant, eccentric, and fond of lavish detail. This is her idea of an evening dress.

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Al Pacino has more than earned the right to announce Best Picture in whatever way he wants to.

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Here are 10 things you should know about Clark Gable, born 124 years ago today. He worked in the theatre for a time before becoming one of Hollywood's biggest stars of the 1930s and '40s.

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GHOSTFACE IS AN OSCAR WINNER! ATTA GIRL MIKEY! ❤️🙌🏻🥹

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2025 Oscar Winners:

• Best Picture: “Anora”

• Best Director: Sean Baker, “Anora”

• Best Actress: Mikey Madison, “Anora”

• Best Actor: Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”

• Best Cinematography: “The Brutalist”

• Best Original Score: “The Brutalist”

• Best Editing: Sean Baker, “Anora”

• Best Original Screenplay: “Anora”

• Best Adapted Screenplay: “Conclave”

• Best Costume Design: “Wicked”

• Best Production Design: “Wicked”

• Best Makeup and Hairstyling: “The Substance”

• Best Sound: “Dune: Part Two”

• Best Visual Effects: “Dune: Part Two”

• Best Animated Feature: “Flow”

• Best Animated Short: “In the Shadow of the Cypress”

• Best Live-Action Short: “I’m Not a Robot”

• Best Documentary Feature: “No Other Land”

• Best Documentary Short: “The Only Girl in the Orchestra”

• Best International Feature: “I’m Still Here”

• Best Supporting Actor: Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”

• Best Supporting Actress: Zoe Saldana, “Emilia Pérez”

• Best Original Song: El Mal, “Emilia Pérez”

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The 97th Academy Awards | 2025

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Viola Davis for Entertainment Weekly

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Promotional ad for the film, All the King’s Men - 1949.

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#2 - Apocalypse Now (1972)

DIR. Francis Ford Coppola | WR. Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Michael Herr | PRD. Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson [...] | STARRING: Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Marlon Brando, Albert Hall, Frederic Forrest

GENRE/S: Drama, War

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, “does not exist, nor will it ever exist.” His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory. - Letterboxd

ORIGIN: USA (English)

RUNTIME: 147 min

R | 18 | IMDb Parents Guide | Does the dog die?

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Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in a studio photoshoot in Paris, January 1968, during their stay for the French premiere of Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde💐💐💐

Long before "it boy" was a hashtag, Warren Beatty had it in spades. Here he is—not as Clyde, not in character-just pure cinematic genes in action. Smirking like he knows exactly how good the lighting is. And he did🪷

Let's not kid ourselves—Beatty didn't just rise through the ranks, he glided through them like the whole system had been built with him in mind. Sure, he could act, produce, direct, rewrite history with Reds, and deliver era-defining films like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. But it never hurt that he looked like the collective daydream of a generation — square jaw, perfect hair, and eyes that could've signed deals on their own🍂

And then, there were the women - the list is too long, too dazzling, and frankly, too iconic to name. Cher once put it best: "Warren has probably been with everybody I know." Before marrying Annette Bening in 1992 and raising four children with her, Beatty's romantic résumé read like a who's who of 20th-century glamour🌼

Today, the legend turns 88. Still effortlessly iconic-and one of the last living links to a time when Hollywood wasn't just an industry, but an era. Happy birthday🌹

📸François Pages

Via @kingsqueensofcool on Instagram🌻

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One Dress a Day Challenge

October: Silver Redux

Samson and Delilah / Hedy Lamarr as Delilah

Delilah's wardrobe is amazing, culminating in the spectacular peacock gown. Edith Head and her fellow designers won a well-deserved Oscar for their work on this film.

This two-piece dress with bare midriff and draped skirt is simple in style but dripping with pearls. The opulent silver fabric and copious jewelry also show how she's living the high life at this point. I've included a close-up showing her beaded hairnet and crown. Also notice the pearls carelessly twined around her shoulder strap.

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Say what you will about the very awful Gwenyth Paltrow (and she is fucking...Awful™), but she is still one of our 1990's Hollywood Icons, a seasoned professional when it comes to acting and knowing what an actor needs to do. She's not everyone's cup of tea, but I really liked her in The Talented Mr. Ripley.

Anyway, I too have said the same about Intimacy Coordinators, at some point when discussing Miller's Girl.

I've mentioned somewhere (maybe not here, but somewhere on Jessica Steinrock's TikTok, since she's the one who helped established the profession in Hollywood) about such an intrusion being possibly stifling before. People like Steinrock emphasize the job aspect of filming, and keeping people protected, which is truly noble of them in this post-#MeToo era, but creating movies is first and foremost an artform. Actors are artists. Directors and cinematographers are artists. Actors like Paltrow recognize the job versus the art of working with your cast and crew.

Remember, Paltrow is also a Weinstein victim, so she knows where sexual nastiness lies in the industry, and it's not commonly between two actors on set in front of the director and crew since the majority of actors and crew are adult professionals.

Imma make this about Miller's Girl because I can: This here looks stifled.

Come on, Martin. We know you were better than that, in the same movie, even, with this fuggin' siren:

Borrowed from safedistancefrombeingsmart for illustrative purposes only. ...Hnnn, Professor Miller🫠

It just seems like Ortega was treated like a delicate flower, as if she hasn't been grabbed/thrown around in other movies. It made the sex fantasy in Miller's Girl look...well, while its heat comes from how Ortega looks, the actual physicality between Miller and Sweet has the bare minimum of sensuality and sexuality, and not organically grown from the actors' characters/constitution (and certainly not the level of what is contained in "Under the Roofs of Paris" or the passage that she's asked to read). I blame the IC and the director/writer for it being so shitty, since I'm sure Ortega would've listened to anything a female director directed her to do for their movie, giving her input along the way as usual (the OG script called for a much rougher sex fantasy, and don't forget that the Mogwai begged for the role of Cairo).

It makes me suspect that since Bartlett had never directed a film before, Bartlett relied too heavily on the ideas of the Intimacy Coordinator to direct the scenes between Freeman and Ortega. Experienced directors, good ones, communicate with their actors and trust their actors to do a good job while also respecting their coworker(s).

Sean Baker and Mikey Madison had that kind of respect, and that kind of freedom and respect earned her an Oscar, since she felt confident enough to do what she did in Anora without an intimacy coordinator. From Forbes:

Madison irritates me, but she 110% has the correct attitude about acting and simulated sex.

So I hear you, Gwyneth. Even if you're an awful person who sold exploding vagina candles.

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Here are 10 things you should know about Claire Trevor, born 115 years ago today. She enjoyed success on stage, in pictures, in radio and on television.

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Oh, I’m gonna eat this UP! This is a three course meal and I’m excited. Two of my favorite people on the planet 🤗🥰

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Mom's spaghetti