Equality Issues Lupita Nyong’o reflects on her post-Oscar career In a recent interview with CNN’s Inside Africa, Lupita Nyong’o opened up about her career after her 2014 Best Supporting Actress Oscar win for her role in 12 Years a Slave. Despite initially assuming that the Oscar would land her a wide range of roles, she said instead, By Stephanie • Nov 24, 2025 12:00 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 22, 2025 I have so much FOMO right now because I desperately want to see Twelfth Night at Shakespeare in the Park in New York, directed by Saheen Ali featuring a star-studded cast that includes: Lupita Nyong’o as Viola and her little brother, Junior, as Sebastian Peter Dinklage as Malvolio Sandra By Lainey • Aug 22, 2025 02:10 pm
Style Lupita and Chanel before Matthieu Matthieu Blazy will present his first Chanel collection in late September/October which will kick off a new era at the house. It will likely be the most highly scrutinised runway of Paris Fashion Week in the fall because, well, this is the designer Chanel is hoping will remain a By Lainey • Jul 08, 2025 01:28 pm
Style The Met Gala’s Well-Suited Women With a Dandyism theme, suits and suiting are on everyone’s mind, and though “dress like the boys” isn’t a huge stretch on the theme, many of the women in this category might never get to wear pants to an event, depending on their stylist’s inclinations or whatever By Duana • May 06, 2025 08:04 am
Oscars 2025 Oscar Night White Dresses It was announced last fall that Lupita Nyong’o had signed on to become Chanel’s latest ambassador. We’ve seen in the past that Chanel doesn’t work for all celebrities. For every Kristen Stewart, there’s a Margot Robbie. For every Jennie, there’s a Penelope Cruz. And By Lainey • Mar 03, 2025 11:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita’s next big thing In purely coincidental timing, yesterday The Hollywood Reporter, er, reported that Lupita Nyong’o is the latest A-lister to sign up for Christopher Nolan’s mysterious new film. Coincidental because Lupita is, of course, linked to John Krasinksi through the Quiet Place franchise, though he did not write or direct By Sarah • Nov 13, 2024 02:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita’s very good year Lupita Nyong’o is having a very good year, what with A Quiet Place: Day One being a respectable mid-budget hit this summer, and now The Wild Robot putting together an impressive run for a non-Pixar, non-Illumination animated film. Next year, she will star as Viola in Free Shakespeare in By Sarah • Oct 11, 2024 01:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita Nyong’o and Joseph Quinn in A Quiet Place: Day One In 2018, A Quiet Place introduced a horror universe in which melon-headed blind aliens invade Earth and hunt and kill humans using sound. It’s a good movie. Its sequel, A Quiet Place Part II, is also good. Its prequel, A Quiet Place: Day One might actually be GREAT. Part By Sarah • Jun 28, 2024 11:28 am
Gorgessity Lupita in sequins and tears A Quiet Place: Day One opens this weekend and is apparently expected to bring in $40-50 million. I hope so, I really, really hope so. But it’s been so unpredictable these last few months and even though the industry seems relieved by the performance of Inside Out 2, it’ By Lainey • Jun 27, 2024 01:44 pm
Gorgessity Lupita in person I was in New York again this past weekend for the A Quiet Place: Day One junket – and I say again because I was in NYC the previous weekend for Celine Dion so that’s Toronto to New York and back again twice in five days. Yes I am making By Lainey • Jun 25, 2024 12:04 pm
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Lupita’s Turn… with a cat Promotional wardrobes are pretty much a standard now. Zendaya’s done it throughout her career, there was the Barbie press tour last year, Anne Hathaway’s been sizzling over the last few weeks with her The Idea of You styling, and now it’s Lupita Nyong’o’s turn. Lupita By Lainey • May 01, 2024 01:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cinemacon 4-11 CinemaCon drags on, or is it just this week? Yesterday, Paramount held their panel, which is a little weird given that that the studio is currently for sale and several board members are stepping down as the company is engaged in talks with David Ellison’s Skydance for a sale By Sarah • Apr 12, 2024 09:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wicked is already exhausting As Lainey mentioned, CinemaCon, the annual showing of Hollywood wares, is happening now in Las Vegas. Yesterday, Universal and Focus Features—which is owned by Universal—showed their wares to the National Association of Theater Owners, or as I like to call them, the other NATO. Their big presentations were By Sarah • Apr 11, 2024 11:20 am
Assy Style What color is Lupita’s dress? Oscars fashion controversy! Lupita Nyong’o wore a custom Armani Prive gown to the 2024 Oscars with a feathered peplum and hem, which was 1) a dress originally designed for 2020 but Lupita ended up hanging onto it till now and 2) supposedly a “tribute” to her iconic 2014 Oscar By Lainey • Mar 11, 2024 01:41 pm
Oscars 2024 Why can’t actresses be friends? Speaking of the five-presenter format and when it works, here is an example of when it DOESN’T work—the actresses. The matchups were much more awkward, the intros, more stilted, and even when real-life friendship does exist, they didn’t take advantage of it. Let’s start with the By Sarah • Mar 11, 2024 12:19 pm
Relationship Assumption Lupita Nyong’o: Ten Years and a Birthday Lupita Nyong’o has the same birthday as Justin Bieber. And this is a great example of why I’m more of a Chinese Zodiac girl than a western Zodiac girl. As we saw earlier this week and again to end the week, Lupita spent her birthday in Mexico with By Lainey • Mar 08, 2024 11:13 am
