The Oscars start at 8:00 but until then arrival madness...
• Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino were talking Times Up on the red carpet. My mind drifted to Marilyn Monroe, who they played together in a TV movie. Marilyn endured constant sexual harassment and I think she'd be proud of them.
• Adam Rippon wore a harness to the Oscars, doing his part to queer things up. We have a number of LGBTQ people / films up for Oscars tonight: Dee Rees and James Ivory (both in Adapted Screenplay), the Chilean nominatee A Fantastic Woman, and the Best Pic nominee Call Me By Your Name, and Rachel Morrison, the first woman nominated in Cinematography. More after the jump...
• Agnès Varda being very Agnès Varda. Love her. And check out those shoes on Dee Rees. Wow.
• Timothée Chalamet brought his mom and wore a white tux! (The men are really doing more fashion-wise than usual). Chalamet gives a beautifully enthusiastic shout out to public school Arts Education (yes!) and LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts. He says he wouldn't be at the Oscars without his time there and he even name checks a teacher. So cool.
• The ABC red carpet team is telling everyone "I'm rooting for you". People... the Oscars don't have five way ties. You can't say that to everyone!
• It's true. Rita Moreno wore the same dress she wore to the 1961 Oscars. She did adjust the top though, it looks like.
• Nicole Kidman says she's dying to see Oceans 8. Same, girl. Same.
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