Gary Oldman Gossip

Casey Affleck is Oscar’s current reigning Best Actor. Would Casey Affleck, alleged sexual harasser, have won that Oscar this year? Last year, during award season, I kept linking to Amy Zimmerman’s excellent piece in The Daily Beast Full Story

Darkest Hour begins as Neville Chamberlain is forced to resign as Prime Minister on the eve of World War II, and Winston Churchill is selected as his replacement after the more popular Lord Halifax—also a supporter of appeasement—passes up the opportunity. It’s a bit of political maneuvering on Halifax’s part—everyone expects Churchill to fail, and then Halifax can swoop in with a unified party behind him and a plan for peace before him. Full Story

Somehow, incredibly, in the span of less than one year, Ryan Reynolds appears in the same bad movie, twice. Last summer I had to sit through the mind-numbingly bad Self/Less Full Story

So you’ve heard about this Gary Oldman Playboy interview, right? Oldman’s defenders tried to make it sound like he was taken out of context. How could he be taken out of context when the magazine posted the transcript? Others are saying that Oldman was simply “illustrating the absurd by being absurd”. Full Story

Could Iman have pulled off Anna Wintour’s floral Chanel at the MET Gala on Monday? How is what you’re wearing Punk, Iman? It’s not. I married David Bowie. If you’ve not seen this yet, you’re about to experience a love explosion. It’s Bowie’s video for The Next Day, directed by Floria Sigismundi, who also directed his The Stars video. Full Story

Um, Christian Bale and Natalie Portman look SUPER HOT as a couple, right? I’m so excited to see him look like himself in a movie - not scowling, not dying, not drug-addicted and emaciated but ordinary, and smiling. Anyway, about last night at the Movie Awards - in case you missed it, they played a Dark Knight retrospective and included a few scenes with Heath Ledger and then Bale took the microphone and could not contain his emotions. Full Story

And Sirius Black too. But hopefully it won’t be the last time he’s nominated for an Oscar. Hopefully next time he wins. For now, enjoy Gary on the carpet with his wife Alexandra and being delightful and awesome with Janet McTeer and Glenn Close at Vanity Fair afterwards, holding their shoes.  Full Story

If Gary Oldman was to build any momentum at all for Oscar as Sarah’s prediction, he really needed the BAFTA for Best Actor. This did not happen. Not to say he’s out of it entirely, but his chances are even smaller now. Like, microscopic. But that’s why you gamble, right? His wife Alexandra is really quite lovely. Full Story

A lot of people seem to think the Oscar race is a foregone conclusion. Well, tell that to the people in the race. They’re still campaigning. And you know how it is in Hollywood. Money is everything. If they’re spending money on consultants and strategies and appearances and this and that and the other, something is giving them reason to believe the votes are still out there. Full Story

So Jean Dujardin, the stone cold French fox who scored a surprise Best Actor upset at the SAGs for The Artist, has a new movie coming out in France. It’s called Les Infideles and it’s about a bunch of guys cheating. The ad campaign features images of the men, including Dujardin, in suggestive positions with women and racy taglines. Full Story