What I’m Hearing: Oscars Mystery, WFH Wars, a ‘Yellowstone’ Facepalm

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Happy Sunday, hope you’re celebrating MLK somewhere less soggy than L.A. I’ve got an abbreviated holiday weekend What I’m Hearing tonight with a few smaller items…

But first… I’ll be at Sundance from Friday through Tuesday, so hit me up for your secret screening or your late night hot tub party (actually, don’t). Second, a correction from Thursday. That was sports manager Ken Katz standing next to Bob Iger at the CFB championship, not poker player Dan Bilzerian, though they look very similar and could actually be the same person. Third, as always, if this email was forwarded to you, join the WIH community by clicking here.

Discussed in this issue: Nelson Peltz, Taylor Sheridan, Jen Salke, Al Michaels, Janet Yang, Noah Oppenheim, Chris Licht, Jimmy Kimmel, Gwyneth Paltrow, Bob Iger, and how to stay awake during Oscar movies.

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An Oscar Oops and the Most Mysterious Campaign

Academy president Janet Yang’s apparent endorsement of Michelle Yeoh raised eyebrows during voting, and the faux pas isn’t even the weirdest drama of the season…

MATTHEW BELLONI

Someone seems to have informed Academy president Janet Yang that she probably shouldn’t be posting a lengthy endorsement of Everything Everywhere All at Once star Michelle Yeoh just as Oscar voting was starting this weekend. Influential plugs like that are considered a no-no for Academy leaders, especially its president, and especially during the height of a heated Oscar campaign. Yang lauded her “four decades of love” for Yeoh, adding “it’s sobering why it took so long” for the awards recognition; she also posted a video of a Netflix campaign event for Pinocchio filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, but at least that was at an Academy venue...

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