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Hey redditors! I’m , and while you’re used to seeing product and company updates from , we’re gonna try some new things here to get you better connected across the Reddit universe. In addition to continuing to keep you updated on platform happenings, we also want to be your guardians of the galaxy, guiding you to the best subreddits and places to dive into anything.

Film is huge on Reddit, with more than 500 subreddits dedicated to movies. And what better time to debate and discuss film than during the Oscars, the world’s most-watched awards show? The business of predicting the winners is so booming that it’s genuinely shocking when the evening’s statuettes go to truly surprising winners.

But how would it play out if the Academy Awards happened on Reddit? Since the Oscars nominees were announced, we’ve been tracking keyword volume for the most popular films, actors, and directors on the platform who were nominated this year… the conversation drivers that stuck with you long enough to champion, troll, and shitpost. Below are this year’s big categories, with nominees ranked based on the highest percentage share of mentions in posts and comments against one another.

(data below is Keyword Volume count across all of Reddit, tracked since nominations day. Source: Reddit Internal, Global, 1/23/24–3/5/24)

Best Picture

1. : 44%

2. : 18%

3. : 9%

4. : 8%

5. : 7%

6. : 3%

7. : 3%

8. : 3%

9. : 3%

10. : 2%

Best Director

1. Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer: 53%

2. Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon: 25%

3. Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things: 10%

4. Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall: 6%

5. Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest: 6%

Best Actor

1. Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer: 36%

2. Bradley Cooper, Maestro: 32%

3. Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers: 18%

4. Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction: 8%

5. Colman Domingo, Rustin: 6%

Best Actress

1. Emma Stone, Poor Things: 68%

2. Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon: 14%

3. Carey Mulligan, Maestro: 8%

4. Sandra Huller, Anatomy of a Fall: 6%

5. Annette Bening, Nyad: 4%

Supporting Actor

1. Ryan Gosling, Barbie: 52%

2. Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer: 17%

3. Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon: 15%

4. Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things; 12%

5. Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction: 4%

Supporting Actress

1. Jodie Foster, Nyad: 47%

2. Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer: 29%

3. America Ferrera, Barbie: 17%

4. Da’vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers: 4%

5. Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple: 3%

Either way the trophies go, there’s gonna be lots to discuss all over Reddit, and if you need some places to gossip, gripe and get into all the action, here are some subreddits that will be running megathreads during Oscars night:

- The largest subreddit for the love of film

- Oscars talk from your favorite film podcast

- From red carpet hits and misses to show analysis

- Your new favorite subreddit for celeb gossip

The TL;DR on this year’s show: Jimmy Kimmel is hosting for the fourth time, which, sure! Oppenheimer is probably going to win Best Picture and turn many more of its 13 nominations into wins. Poor Things has 11 nods, Killers of the Flower Moon has 10 and , which ! The equally snubbed Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig will be asked to watch Ryan Gosling perform “I’m Just Ken”, because the Academy and have chosen chaos every year since…

Who do you want to take home Oscars gold? Still want justice for this year’s biggest snubs? Do you think the most popular actors and films on Reddit will be the same the Academy chooses? Let us know in the comments!

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Hi everyone, I’m aka Ben Lee, Reddit’s Chief Legal Officer, and I’m sharing a heads-up on an important Supreme Court case in the United States that could significantly impact freedom of expression online around the world.

TL;DR

In 2021, Texas and Florida passed laws (Texas House Bill 20 and Florida Senate Bill 7072) trying to restrict how platforms – and their users – can moderate content, with the goal of prohibiting “censorship” of other viewpoints. While these laws were written for platforms very different from Reddit, they could have serious consequences for our users and the broader Internet.

We’re standing up for the First Amendment rights of Redditors to define their own content rules in their own spaces in an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief we filed in the Supreme Court in the and cases. You can see our brief . I’m here to answer your questions and encourage you to crosspost in your communities for further discussion.

While these are US state laws, their impact would be felt by all Internet users. They would allow a single, government-defined model for online expression to replace the community-driven content moderation approaches of online spaces like Reddit, making content on Reddit--and the Internet as a whole--less relevant and more open to harassment.

This isn’t hypothetical: in 2022, a Reddit user in Texas sued us under the Texas law (HB 20) after he was banned by the moderators of the community. He had posted a disparaging comment about the Star Trek character Wesley Crusher (calling him a “soy boy”), which earned him a ban under the community’s rule to “be nice.” (It is the height of irony that a comment about Wil Wheaton’s character would violate of “don’t be a dick.”) Instead of taking his content elsewhere, or starting his own community, this user sued Reddit, asking the court to reinstate him in and award him monetary damages. While we were able to stand up for the moderators of and get the case dismissed (on procedural grounds), the Supreme Court is reviewing these laws and will decide whether they comply with the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Our experience with HB 20 demonstrates the potential impact of these laws on shared online communities as well as the sort of frivolous litigation they incentivize.

If these state laws are upheld, our community moderators could be forced to keep up content that is irrelevant, harassing, or even harmful. Imagine if every cat community was forced to accept random dog-lovers’ comments. Or if the subreddit devoted to your local city had to keep up irrelevant content about other cities or topics. What if every comment that violated a subreddit’s specific moderation rules had to be left up? You can check out the for even more examples (they filed their brief independently from us, and it includes examples of the types of content that they remove from their communities–and that these laws would require them to leave up).

Every community on Reddit gets to define what content they embrace and reject through their upvotes and downvotes, and the rules their volunteer moderators set and enforce. It is not surprising that one of the most common community rules is some form of “be civil,” since most communities want conversations that are civil and respectful. And as Reddit the company, we believe our users should always have that right to create and curate online communities without government interference.

Although this case is still ultimately up to the Supreme Court (oral argument will be held on February 26 – you can listen live on the day), your voice matters. If you’re in the US, you can call your or to make your voice heard.

This is a lot of information to unpack, so I’ll stick around for a bit to answer your questions.