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As the most cutthroat Oscar race in recent memory churns on, Sean Baker's Anora looks more and more like a Best Picture frontrunner—and Madison, the film's enigmatic lead, could become the youngest Best Actress winner in over a decade. For now, she’s just trying to enjoy the moment.

He got big streaming videos of his gaming exploits. He got huge (like, millions-of-fans huge) streaming videos of his offline life. Now, one of Gen Z’s wildest success stories explains his plans to revolutionize the rest of the media landscape.

The Mufasa and Rebel Ridge star talks about his breakthrough year, leaning into what makes him nervous, and why he’s excited to play a Green Lantern.

GQ treks to North Africa for an intimate conversation with the ever-evolving creator about her latest metamorphosis.

He’s always had a comic-book hero’s face. He stepped out of Australian soap operas and onto the Hollywood leading-man track. So what’s Guy Pearce doing playing the embodiment of capitalist villainy in the awards-favorite epic The Brutalist? The same thing he’s always done: seeking out the dark, risky territory where he feels most at home.

He turned a SpongeBob musical into the break of a lifetime. But when the Broadway alum nabbed the role of Boq in the mega-budget Wicked film, his trip down the yellow brick road would change everything.

Formula 1 veteran Sergio Pérez has had an unexpected career at every turn—and this season is no different. While fighting to keep his privileged seat at Red Bull Racing, Checo invites GQ to a crucial race in Hungary and then back home.

As Netflix’s sweetest queer teen romance series returns for a third season, its stars hung out with GQ in NYC to discuss managing mutual stubble while kissing on camera, fulfilling their Broadway dreams, breaking out with Agatha All Along and Warfare, and why there’s nothing better than going out to dinner.

He’s one of the NFL’s most talented wide receivers, among its most outspoken, and quite possibly the sport’s most stylish player too. Now, on his third team, he’s looking to finally reach football’s promised land.

Thirty-five years after playing the Ghost With the Most made him into an A-list star (and, soon after, a superhero), the legendary screen eccentric whom Jenna Ortega calls “strangely normal” returns to old haunts in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and tells GQ what he’s learned from surviving decades in a fickle business: “You can get insecure and nervous, and go, ‘Wow, boy, I'm not doing so great right now.’ But when you get desperate, you're dead.”

The Pacers point guard transformed himself from unheralded prospect to full-fledged NBA superstar—and, hopefully, Olympic gold medalist. If you doubt him, all the better. “That's the fun part: it's just another chip on my shoulder.”

The Crown star turned newly-minted Marvel antagonist shakes off the shackles of period drama to take on an all-new challenge: Going toe to toe with mighty mutants Deadpool and Wolverine in the film that could save (or sink) the MCU onscreen. No pressure.

After years of grinding, Colman Domingo has finally been nominated for an Oscar and become the new king of red-carpet style.

In The Acolyte, set one hundred years before the prequels, Stenberg plays twins who’ve grown up on opposite sides of the Force, in a show that aims to challenge long-held preconceptions about the Star Wars universe. “They’ve called our show The Woke-alyte a fair amount,” Stenberg says. “I’m like, ‘Okay, what about it?’”

This year he won an Emmy for playing Cousin Richie, the cranky loose cannon in The Beef’s kitchen. Next year he’ll be Ben Grimm in Marvel’s Fantastic Four. Some actors wait their whole lives for a moment like this. Moss-Bachrach isn’t one of them. “I was never asking,” he says, “when it was going to be my turn.”

The streaming sensation reveals his real voice, answers the industry-plant allegations, and talks Ye’s and Drake’s endorsements in his exclusive first profile.