The Oscars Experiment, Reviewed; Hattie McDaniel’s Epic Double Life; Five Unstoppable Black Indie Directors

Plus: The Best Looks From Oscar Pre-Parties and After-Parties View in your browser | Update your preferences     A daily digest of things to discuss over drinks April 26, 2021     The Icon and the Outcast: Hattie McDaniel's Epic Double Life In Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood, biographer Jill Watts explores the Gone With the Wind trailblazer's highs and lows. R E A D  M O R E »     Five Black Indie Directors Who Haven't Let the Pandemic Stop Them Filmmakers Jeanetta Rich, Shatara Michelle Ford, Ephraim Asili, Tayler Montague, and Merawi Gerima have made or released brilliant new work in the last year. R E A D  M O R E »     The 2021 Oscars-Ceremony Experiment, Reviewed Steven Soderbergh made a heroic effort to do an Academy Awards show like no other—but the old ways were sorely missed. R E A D  M O R E »     The Winning Oscars Beauty Looks—And All the Must-Have Products From Andra Day's highlight balm to Vanessa Kirby's scarlet lipstick, these makeup essentials passed the red-carpet test with flying colors. R E A D  M O R E »     Millions of People Aren't Getting Their Second Shots While Joe Biden is reportedly gearing up to announce new outdoor mask-wearing guidance for vaccinated people, his administration is grappling with Americans refusing to get a shot—or finishing the job. R E A D  M O R E »     From the Archive: A Boom of Their Own Furious over the marginalization of women in film, indie director Allison Anders convened a summit—part suffragette rally, part catharsis, part 60-hour sleepover—at the Miramar hotel, in Santa Barbara, in April 2000. The ripple effects of that gathering and its "50-50" manifesto continue to spread today, even as a new movement rocks the industry. Cari Beauchamp, who was there that weekend, hears from many other attendees about the epiphanies that the conclave inspired. R E A D  M O R E » Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. Sign Up Now     This e-mail was sent to you by VANITY FAIR. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.