It's been six weeks since Lupita Nyong'o won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 12 Years a Slave. But given how quickly things happen today, her triumph might as well have happened years ago. The People want a new Lupita role, damn it!
The May issue of Marie Claire is a sweet, fresh breath of springtime joy, with Lupita Nyong'o beaming and pretty in pink. She's one of three five coverladies; the others are Emilia Clarke, Elle Fanning, Kate Mara and Elizabeth Olsen. Last night three of them attended the magazine's "Fresh Faces" party in Hollywood;…
The figurative ink on Lupita Nyong'o's new Lancôme contract is not even dry, but there's already the scent of backlash in the air. It's hard to think of anyone who could actually dislike the 12 Years a Slave actress (the closest one can come would be "cautiously appreciative"), let alone despise her.
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Photography is the science and art of creating images using light. But if you've ever seen oddly-colored pictures of Gabourey Sidibe, Lupita Nyong'o or Beyoncé, you know that when it comes to dark skin, photography has issues.
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I'm really not into the phrase "It Girl." First of all because it sounds like a euphemism for "Sexy Pennywise Halloween Costume," and second of all because it's so...singular. We can only have one girl? And that's "It"? Girls are like the Highlander? What happens to her when she's not "It" anymore? Why don't we have an "It…
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Brand new Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o was recently asked by the staff at Conan to name which of her celebrity encounters over the past few months has left her most starstruck. Considering the highfalutin crowd she's been running around with lately, Nyong'o has plenty options. Her choice, however, was a no-brainer…
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Despite 12 Years a Slave's very serious subject matter—steeped in the most inglorious era of our country's history—and all the important conversations about race that have taken place leading up to the film's big win at this year's Academy Awards, white people still feel super comfortable making stupid jokes and puns…
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When Lupita Nyong’o won Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards this week, her success inspired bunches of style shifts. Perhaps long Hollywood weaves will go out of style because of the actress' gorgeously cropped hair, maybe her gown's blue hue will be spring’s hottest new color or maybe we'll all be wearing…
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Lupita Nyong'o is so awesome that entire countries are fighting over the right to claim her and her Oscar win on Sunday — Mexico and Kenya, specifically.
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Lupita Nyong'o sat down with two of America's most daytimey-est talk show hosts, Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan, to talk about her stunning win as Best Supporting Actress at Sunday night's Oscar ceremony.
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For its famed Oscars after party, Vanity Fair had photographer Mark Seliger shoot portraits of celebrity attendees—including editor-in-chief Graydon Carter—for Instagram. Somehow, Minnie Driver managed to work her way in there.
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THANK ALL THINGS GOOD AND LUPITA, WE CAN FINALLY STOP HOLDING OUR BREATH. The show-stopping Ms. Nyong'o has won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Patsey in 12 Years a Slave. Unsurprisingly, her speech was graceful, heartfelt and charming. Particularly moving was her recognition of the real life Patsey…
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Who had the best Dance With Pharrell Dance? Was it a) Lupita Nyong'o's Raise Your Hands If You Don't Care, b) Meryl Streep's Shoulder Shimmy, or c) Amy Adams' Full Body Roll?
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If you've been following the pre-Academy Award awards (and you believe the pre-show hype), then you know consensus dictates Cate Blanchett or 12 Years a Slave are pretty much locked down for Best Actress and Best Picture, respectively. But when it comes to two other big categories — Best Actor and Best Actress in a…
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Lupita Nyong'o is continuing on her road to glory leading to the Academy Awards this Sunday. Over at MTV Style, a writer and photoshop wiz cobbled together an image of the 12 years a Slave actress wearing every color in the rainbow and it's breathtaking. Lupita's able to pull off nearly every color in the Crayola box…
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Lupita Nyong'o might be Hollywood's new IT girl (that's a "cool" girl, not a woman who goes door to door clearing the caches on celebrity computers as part of a studio-sponsored program to make sure they don't get caught watching porn), but she didn't always feel that way.
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What we have here is an image of Oscar nominated actor Lupita Nyong'o, Oscar nominated actor Jeremy Renner, His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama, and actor slash humanitarian Eva Longoria. What should the caption be?
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Welcome back to Midweek Madness, in which Callie Beusman makes a pilgrimage to the local newsstand and buys the latest issues of Ok!, In Touch, Life & Style, Us and Star. Together we "read" the "news" so you don't "have" to. This week: Nicole Richie is "scary skinny;" everyone hates The Bachelor; and new fashion it girl Kendall …
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Lupita Nyong’o, dressed in a fabulous white short set, stopped by The Ellen Show on Friday to chat about her spot in the Hollywood rumor mill thanks to her new It girl status. Word on the street is that Nyong’o was dating Jared Leto but then disaster struck.
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Welcome back to Selfie Loathing, America's number one Vanity Smurf waterpark. Every Friday, we check out what happens when the stars play paparazzi and turn the cameras on themselves. This week: Lupita and Fassbender do a selfie; Ed Sheeran and Kat Dennings really like cats; Amanda Seyfried's hairdo looks complicated;…
