Once upon a Drag Queen Story Time

Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood was among the top winners at the 10th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on Thursday night (Feb. 6).

We here at Cosmopolitan are absolutely obsessed with movies, but we get that you're a busy person, and it's hard to see all the films that are going to be "important" in any given year. In this series, Low-key Highbrow, we're giving you the basic gist on every one of those pictures you probably should have seen, but never got around to. When your friend inevitably throws that Oscars watch party, we're here to help you scam your way into sounding like the smartest person in the room.

"Actually, a funny thing happened," Margaret Qualley tells Lynn Hirschberg during her Screen Tests interview, while speaking about auditioning for her role as Pussycat in Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood.

Zoe Bell is a Hollywood veteran when it comes to stunt work. She’s worked with director Quentin Tarantino on a number of his films, and he made her his stunt coordinator for his ninth picture, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

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From left: Margaret Qualley wears a Louis Vuitton coat and top; vintage earrings from Pilgrim New York; stylist’s own ring. Mikey Madison wears a Gucci dress; Jennifer Fisher earrings.

The city seen in Sony's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a lot different from the Hollywood of today. The neon marquees have given way to LED screens, tall towers are actively changing the city's landscape and traffic prevents any Angeleno from zooming through the city as quickly as Brad Pitt's Cliff Booth.

When this year's Oscar contenders were announced, Mark Ulano scored a rare double nomination in sound mixing for Fox/Disney's Ad Astra and Sony's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (which also garnered a sound editing nom). "I had no expectation because there are some very good films out there this year," admits the veteran sound mixer, who won an Oscar for James Cameron's historical drama Titanic and nabbed an additional nomination for Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is Quentin Tarantino's love letter to the film industry, and indeed, on the first round of viewing, one might not pick up on the fastidious attention to detail the Oscar nominee for best director and screenplay paid to recreating 1969, 50 years later.When attending a screening of the best picture nominee at Tarantino's New Beverly Cinema on Beverly Blvd., immersing oneself in that period is the goal, as broadcasts from the local 1969 Los Angeles KHJ radio station

“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and “Game of Thrones” have taken home two of the major Artios Awards from the Casting Society of America.

By Erik Pedersen

Quentin Tarantino’s earliest memory of Los Angeles was as a young boy visiting Grauman’s Chinese Theater, standing in the courtyard and looking at the handprints of John Wayne and Roy Rogers. He recollects the Mold-A-Rama machine outside that dispensed a souvenir wax pagoda if you inserted a quarter.

Tarantino's "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" was his love letter to Los Angeles of 1969, and it has won commercial success and critical acclaim all over the world. 

Something has become pretty clear over the past week or so. Well, a number of things, in relation to the Academy Awards, but today we’re focusing on one thing in particular, which is the Best Picture race.

Quentin Tarantino is working on a Once Upon a Time in Hollywood spin-off series based on fictional TV show, Bounty Law.

Two petitions calling for ‘Drag Queen Story Time’ to be banned have been lodged on the Brisbane City Council website, while a third supporting its continuations has also been lodged.

Things are getting meta in the Tarantino universe

Update: Wilson Gavin has died, news reports say. See our story here.

The president of the University of Queensland branch of the Liberal National Club (UQLNC), Wilson Gavin, who led a protest yesterday against a Drag Queen story reading, has died by suicide.