Oscars 2026 Jessie Buckley and Chloé Zhao had VERY different Oscar dresses Unsurprisingly, Jessie Buckley won Best Actress for her performance in Hamnet. A lot of people were annoyed with her after her anti-cat comments, but her acceptance speech was lovely, including a shoutout to mothers, as it was Mother’s Day in the UK (which she is not from, being Irish) By Sarah • Mar 16, 2026 08:38 am
Golden Globes 2026 Jessie, Hamnet, and the Lead Actresses Sarah has written today about One Battle After Another and how it is now, unquestionably, the frontrunner for Best Picture at the Oscars over Sinners which will likely get many, many nominations but few if any wins. We’ve been anxious about this for months, but this cannot be a By Lainey • Jan 12, 2026 10:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet In her 1929 essay A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf imagines a sister of William Shakespeare called Judith, every bit as creative and talented as her brother, to illustrate how gender historically limited opportunities for women. Denied education and opportunity, the imaginary Judith dies in obscurity and is By Sarah • Sep 11, 2025 02:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chloe Zhao’s Marvel’s Eternals Marvel has taken a lot of hits over the years for their formula, and it’s a fair assessment at times that they lean too hard on the known and don’t take many real risks with their films. In that way, Eternals is the biggest swing they’ve ever By Sarah • Nov 05, 2021 10:08 am
Gorgessity Chloe and Gemma lead Eternals Reigning Best Director Oscar winner Chloe Zhao was at the Eternals screening last night. As Sarah noted last week, Marvel is leaning into Chloe’s credentials after her Oscar triumph just six months ago for Nomadland. Chloe, like most auteur directors (as much as “auteur” is an eye-roll for some, By Lainey • Oct 19, 2021 11:45 am
Style Outfit of the Week: Chloe Zhao and her Backpack Chloe Zhao wore her hair down yesterday instead of in her signature double braids for the Venice Film Festival jury photo call. The braids were missing again last night at the gala for opening night. But the hair is not the story here. I thought the story might be the By Lainey • Sep 02, 2021 11:33 am
Gorgessity Cynthia Erivo brings it to Venice The Venice Film Festival kicks off today and if Cynthia Erivo is an indication, we are about to get a spectacle tonight at the opening gala. Cynthia is a member of the jury this year. Bong Joon-ho is the Venice 2021 jury president. That means the two back-to-back East Asian By Lainey • Sep 01, 2021 10:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 18, 2021 Dear Gossips, Last week, when I posted about Gemma Chan, The First Eternal, I wrote that it was thrilling to me that the MCU’s next two movies, expected to be blockbusters, were led by two East Asian performers. While Marvel’s Eternals, premiering in November, is an ensemble, Kevin By Lainey • Aug 18, 2021 09:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chloe Zhao’s Eternals are here A few weeks after a Phase 4 teaser gave us our first glimpse of Chloe Zhao’s Eternals, a teaser trailer has arrived showing us the Eternals in action throughout human history. The sweeping opening shot of a pre-historic cliff is lovely, the crashing waves contrasted with the simplicity of By Sarah • May 25, 2021 01:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chloe Zhao’s Eternals Marvel dropped a super masturbatory Phase 4 teaser this morning, and while it is hilariously self-important, it does include some new upcoming titles, a Fantastic Four promise, and our first look at newly minted Oscar Best Director and Best Picture winner Chloe Zhao’s Eternals. First, let’s talk about By Sarah • May 03, 2021 11:53 am
Oscars 2021 Chloe Zhao: Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar Successor The hope, of course, is that one day we won’t have to mention the how remarkable it is – for a woman to win Best Director at the Oscars. And that she’s a woman of colour. But that day has yet to come. So it’s history: Chloe Zhao By Lainey • Apr 26, 2021 06:26 am
Oscars 2021 Oscars Scorecard: It’s something! This year, I attempted to guess every winner of the “Oddscars”—or as they shall henceforth be known, the “total chaos Oscars”—and I did pretty okay. I got 15 categories out of 23 right, which Professor Calculator tells me is 65% correct. Of the 8 misses, 7 were from By Sarah • Apr 26, 2021 06:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chloe Zhao makes history Infuriating snubs aside, there are some feel-good stories among this year’s Oscars nominees, and Chloe Zhao’s historic year is one of them. Zhao and Emerald Fennell mark the first time two women have been nominated at the same time for Best Director, and Zhao is the first woman By Sarah • Mar 15, 2021 02:09 pm
Equality Issues Chloe Zhao in the Lead Chloe Zhao made history last night at the Golden Globes. She’s now only the second woman to win Best Director after Barbra Streisand did it in 1983 – which means it’s been, do the math, 38 years between women – and the first woman of Asian descent to be given By Lainey • Mar 01, 2021 09:39 am
