Amy Adams Gossip

I didn’t actually know that last night was Amy Adams’s first Emmys. Because we see Amy Adams so often at award shows. She’s often at the Golden Globes. She’s often at the SAGs and the BAFTAs. She’s been Oscar-nominated six times. SIX! This is why it didn’t seem possible that she was making her Emmys debut and this is also why, when she did not win the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie, she was trending almost immediately on Twitter. Full Story

What I mean by “knew better” is that they knew what would happen – or that they dressed for what they knew would happen. What happened is that neither of them won anything. In Claire’s case, that was expected. For Amy Adams… well…  I guess, at this point, it’s also kind of expected? She often doesn’t win and as I’ve said, many times now, all of those people playing the “due game Full Story

Amy Adams received two acting Golden Globe nominations this morning, one for Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series and another for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for Vice. She’s now trending on Twitter. But don’t forget about Regina King. Regina has been nominated in those same categories. Full Story

American Hustle came out five years ago, directed by David O Russell, starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, and Jeremy Renner. The film was nominated for several Oscars. Now three of its stars are in this year’s Oscar race, two of them going up against each other. Full Story

The theme of this week’s episode of Show Your Work is finding the sexy in the unsexy. Or reframing what used to be considered the “unsexy” work of Hollywood. Which is basically everything that happens behind the camera.  Let’s start with the money. Usually the celebrity money stories that get the most play are the ones about how they spend their money – what they buy, what they demand, how much they have – and not really about the work that goes into keeping it, managing it, taking care of it. Full Story

The best thing about the Oscars last year was that Justin Timberlake did not win one. He tried though. He was nominated for Best Song for the Worst Song of 2016, Can’t Stop The Feeling, from the movie Trolls. Full Story

Few actors are as committed to Method by way of body transformation as Christian Bale, who will, as his next trick, transform himself into a peeled egg in order to play Dick Cheney. Adam McKay and his Big Short producers at Plan B—including Brad Pitt—are putting together a biopic about Cheney, with Bale in talks to star. Full Story

Amy Adams will be at the Oscars on Sunday – as a presenter and not a nominee. She was considered one of the major “snubs” of the year. Because Arrival has been nominated for Best Picture. Full Story

Amy Adams (likely) made her last stateside awards season appearance as a Best Actress nominee for Arrival at the SAG Awards on Sunday night. She did not receive an Oscar nomination for Arrival last week, but still has the BAFTAs on her nominee calendar. Full Story

They used to call this the Hollywood Issue, Vanity Fair’s annual February issue ahead of the Oscars featuring, primarily, the outstanding performers from the year that was. For whatever reason, the magazine has rebranded the name but the spirit is the same. In years past, Vanity Fair has been criticised for not featuring a diverse range of artists in this issue. Full Story

Remember last year when Leonardo DiCaprio was on the award circuit for The Revenant how the storyline was all what a travesty it was that he didn’t have an Oscar. Leo’s due! It’s his time! Like somehow he, Leonardo DiCaprio, LEONARDO DICAPRIO!, was hard done by. Forty years old or so. Full Story