Everyone's Kinda Mad at Vanity Fair
From the celebs who hated the lighting at the Oscars party, to non-fans of that Kylie Jenner profile (including us). Plus: Step-and-repeats! Buffy! And introducing your SNL concierge!
FINALLY. Awards season is over and I can turn to my true passion: rating its step-and-repeats. If you are new here, every year I look at the red-carpet backdrops of each major awards show and grade them. Here’s last year’s post, and here is the inaugural one, when the SAG Awards gave me a full melt-down (they completely bounced back the next year, proving that actors — and the Actors — can at least take a note). This year, my most pressing question is: Will the Critics Choice Awards — which got a D in 2024 and an execrable D- last year — manage to pull itself out of the absolute basement?
The Critics Choice Awards:
Hey, wow, conveniently they’re up first this year. So much for suspense. This is EXACTLY the same step-and-repeat as the CCAs ran last year, to the point where I thought it might literally be the same one, just stored in a shed for 12 months, until I noticed that 2026’s effort is also forced to plug Versant. Of course. In addi…