Charlize Theron Gossip

Charlize Theron accepted the Spotlight Award at the Costume Designers Guild Awards last night in Beverly Hills. The award honours actors who recognise throughout their careers the value that costume designers and costume artists bring to a role. There’s an obvious connection this year between Charlize’s work and how it’s been informed by costume in Bombshell but in almost every role, her costume has shaped her characters – Atomic Blonde, Tully, as Ravenna in the Snow White/Huntsman movies, Monster, even The Long Shot. Full Story

The Oscars are less than two weeks away. The suspense this year is in the Best Picture and Director races. All the acting categories are pretty much locked up: Renee Zellweger for Best Actress, Joaquin Phoenix for Best Actor, Laura Dern for Best Supporting Actress, and Brad Pitt for Best Supporting Actor. Full Story

All right… let’s do this.  I even cracked my knuckles in anticipation.  Webster’s Dictionary defines ‘best dressed’ as…  Yeah, yeah, okay. Tired joke. But, knowing that I was gonna choose this look, and also knowing how many people already hate it, I wanted to actually try to do a bit of homework-slash-introspection, and figure out why I thought this was the best dressed of the night. Full Story

Bombshell tells the story of Roger Ailes’ ouster at Fox News amid a sexual harassment scandal. In hindsight, it’s a proto-#MeToo story about a predator felled when enough people listened to enough women recount horror stories of harassment and abuse, and it happened at one of the most insular media companies in America. Full Story

The cast of Bombshell, Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie, attended a special screening for the film last night in LA, just before the Screen Actors Guild nominations this morning. Bombshell came up big, with all three women earning nominations – Charlize in the leading category and both Nicole and Margot in supporting. Full Story

This is a straight up fashion post – four looks from last night that are really, really good, that could have been contenders, but not as good as Celine Dion’s Outfit of the Week that I posted yesterday Full Story

We are about a month away from the Golden Globe nominations. The Globes don’t often align with the Oscars but they can set the tone for Oscar nominations a month later as the Globes happen during the Oscar nomination voting period.  As we’ve been reporting, races look pretty tight across the board this year in most major categories. Full Story

The latest cinematic outing for the first family of weird is the animated The Addams Family, an attempt to rebrand the Addamses for the new millennium, or possibly just an exercise in brand management, as the whole thing feels like it exists solely to renew an IP license. The Addams Family is from directors Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan, who were previously accused of treating their Sausage Party Full Story

Last week at LaineyGossip, we played “Leave Room For” in the Oscar race. Sarah wrote that award season has to leave room for 1917 and in my post about leaving room for Queen & Slim, I mentioned that we also have to leave room for Bombshell Full Story

 Charlize Theron, who did not date Brad Pitt, has been in New York this week doing some press. She was at Good Morning America yesterday and was seen last night out for dinner. Full Story

Recently, the title “Bombshell” has been most affiliated with Hedy Lamarr, who has been relaunched into public awareness largely thanks to a documentary called Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. However, there is a new Bombshell on the block, and it’s the story of Roger Ailes’ downfall starring Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, and Charlize Theron. Full Story