In the game of war, there are no winners, no losers, only casualties. Both unsettling and tender is Franz Böhm’s BAFTA-winning short film Rock, Paper, Scissors, which follows the true story of Ivan ...

Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the hidden biology that makes this possible. By Carl Zimmer If you live in the ...

The side-splotched lizard (*Uta stansburiana*), commonly found in California, United States, displays striking variations in the coloration around the males’ necks during spring. Despite belonging to ...

The Hollywood Reporter's executive editor of awards coverage projects that the field will be led by 'Sinners' (with a ...

Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff and Amanda Anisimova were among the stars of the women's tour who loved it. The stressful part for ...

The Academy Awards record book may well be rewritten on Thursday morning when nominations for the 98th Oscars are unveiled.

Golden Globes night rarely settles an Oscar race. Does anyone remember last year, when the headlines depicted a race between ...

In what is now approaching an honest-to-goodness tradition, below we've put together our list of the many games we're most ...

Welcome to Variety Awards HQ - your weekly command center for the Oscars race. It’s January 12, 2026, and Oscar nomination ...

Megan O’Sullivan is a writer based in Brooklyn. On her desk is a vintage brass table lamp, a porcelain Royal Copenhagen cup ...