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Chris Morgan

Chris Morgan is a Detroit-based culture writer who has somehow managed to justify getting his BA in Film Studies. He has written about sports and entertainment across various internet platforms for years and is also the author of three books about '90s television.

EXPERTISE:

Movies, TV, Sitcoms, Indie Music, 90's Culture, Classic Films, NFL, NBA, NHL, Soccer

Every actor who has won multiple acting Oscars

Some actors have more than one of the little gold men to their names — 42, in fact, who have won multiple Oscars for acting. This doesn’t include directing, producing or writing Academy Awards.

The 25 best celebrity cameos on The Simpsons

Here are our favorite celebrity cameos on “The Simpsons,” but only where the celebrities were on the show as themselves...

25 legendary filmmakers who never won the Best Director Oscar

Some of these filmmakers still have hopes of taking home Best Director. Some of them, unfortunately, will never have the opportunity.

The 25 best minor recurring characters from The Simpsons

You probably have a favorite character from “The Simpsons.” If you are devoted to the iconic cartoon, though, you surely have your favorite minor character as well.

The nine people who have hosted the Golden Globes

The Golden Globes are a strange beast. They play second fiddle in film to the Oscars and in television to the Emmys, but they cover both. However, a lot of people wish they didn’t have as big of a role as they do as the pseudo silver medal of entertainment award shows.

The 25 greatest Simpsons episodes, ranked

Coming up with the 25 best episodes of a show this great, and this prolific, was hard, even if all the best episodes come from the first 10 seasons.

The best episode of every season of 'The Simpsons'

We’re going to highlight the best episode of the first 30 seasons of the show. You may not like the later seasons, but there is still good stuff there.

The 25 greatest animated shows of all time

Animation has been a big part of television for decades. Some shows have been bad. Others, though, have been quite good, occasionally even transcendent.

The movies, shows, albums and tours we’re looking forward to in 2020

When 2019 comes to a close, we shut the book on a whole decade. However, let’s not get too ahead of ourselves in looking at the 2020s; let’s just get a little ahead of ourselves.

Actors who weren't afraid to get political in 2019

The political landscape is pretty intense right now, and with the internet it’s easier than ever for actors to get involved on that front.

The 25 best holiday movies

The holiday season is about different things to different people. There’s shopping, food, family, and, of course, films. There are many movies set over the holiday season, which we are defining as being between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve.

The 25 biggest NBA arena anthems of all time

If you go to any major team sport event, you’re going to hear music. Some sports feature more than others. Baseball, for example, has walk-up music for all the hitters on the home team and every pitcher out of the bullpen.

The biggest sports turkeys of 2019

These are the folks in the world of sports who were turkeys for one reason or another.

The 25 best Thanksgiving Day NFL games

Here are the best Thanksgiving Day NFL games of all time. It’s the rare positive NFL list that will feature the Lions quite a bit.

20 films that tried predicting the future (and how well they did)

Here are 10 films we think did a solid job of predicting the future and 10 that were just a bit off...

America's most beloved celebrities

They are the celebrities we wish we were friends with. It’s always a joy to see them pop up, either in a movie or on a talk show or even on social media. Here are some of America’s most beloved celebrities.

It was all a meme: The best internet moments of the 2010s

These were the memes, internet creations and strange moments that defined the 2010s on the internet — in a good way, at least. We don’t want to wade into the garbage fire that is the internet at its worst.

10 movie reboots that we needed (and 10 we didn't)

We’ve found 10 reboots in the world of movies that we think paid off and 10 that we wish had been relegated to nothing more than a thought experiment.

Ranking the American Music Awards hosts

Some years have had only one host, but quite a few have had several.There have even been a few with no host. We’ve ranked the hosts of every show since 1974.

Ranking every People's Choice Awards host

This year marks the 45th People’s Choice Award event, and what’s an award show without a good host?

Predicting the winners of the 2019 People's Choice Awards

Do you know who votes for the Emmys? Or for the Oscars? Maybe vaguely, but you aren’t a member of the Academy, right? If you are, thanks for reading, but odds are you aren’t...

The top 50 athletes of the 2010s

As we watch the 2010s come to a close, we wanted to take a look at the 50 athletes whose excellence best exemplified the decade. Here they are, in alphabetical order.

Top 50 sports stories of the 2010s

Not all of them have been particularly happy, but they all tell the story of sports in the 2010s. Here are the top 50 sports stories of the last decade.

The 50 best teams of the 2010s

Since 2010, we have seen some truly great teams. We have seen dynasties rise and fall. Here are the 50 best teams of the 2010s.