Top Reads Ben Affleck’s big brother hug Ben Affleck was very emotional last night when Casey Affleck won the Oscar. He kissed and hugged his little brother. He was teary-eyed in the audience during Casey’s acceptance speech. Ben Affleck gives his brother Casey Affleck a big hug and a kiss for winning Best Actor at the By Lainey • Feb 27, 2017 04:25 pm
Oscars 2017 Leo, the Oscar-winning presenter Leonardo DiCaprio returned to the Oscars a year after The Struggle to present Best Actress in his role as immediate-previous Best Actor. As you know, once you win an Oscar, the title is forever attached to your name. We recently interviewed Anna Paquin on The Social and when we introduced By Lainey • Feb 27, 2017 03:14 pm
Oscars 2017 Michelle & Busy: Oscar Social Lubricant Like it was with Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, Michelle Williams and Busy Phillips were underneath our etalk balcony position for a good amount of time last night ...fascinating. Danielle Graham and I could not get enough of the dynamic. Our balcony is right above the final photo wall before By Lainey • Feb 27, 2017 02:26 pm
Oscars 2017 Halle's one look Most people seem to have a problem with Halle Berry's hair. I like her hair. I like big hair. Red carpet hair is so often so boring, so the same. And there's rarely any volume. So Halle's hair, to me, is way better than By Lainey • Feb 27, 2017 01:15 pm
Oscars 2017 Brie Larson's Casey face Casey Affleck Best Actor over Denzel Washington. Or do you prefer Jezebel's headline "F-cking Creep Wins Oscar"? For the last 13 years, the actor who wins the SAG goes on to win the Oscar. Denzel took the SAG. And Casey broke the trend, killed the streak. By Lainey • Feb 27, 2017 12:26 pm
Oscars 2017 John Legend…but, really, Chrissy Teigen Even though John Legend has been promoting La La Land all season, stories have usually wound up being about Chrissy Teigen. I am far from innocent in this regard – she just makes it so easy. Chrissy Teigen is almost compulsively interesting. But today it was really supposed to be about By Lainey • Feb 27, 2017 12:07 pm
Oscars 2017 Nicole & Keith at the Oscars I spent a decent amount of time watching Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban at the Oscars, how they interact, how they connect to each other. They’re friendly on the red carpet. They talk to people. They’re not there to just keep themselves like some of the others – ahem, By Lainey • Feb 27, 2017 11:36 am
Oscars 2017 Dev Patel: Oscar cutest Sorry about the not-very-creative title but there really is no way to say it. Dev Patel was the cutest last night. No, Lainey, Sunny Pawar was the cutest. Sunny was cute but one-dimensionally, like cute little kid cute. Dev, on the other hand, had cute multitudes. He’s super cute By Lainey • Feb 27, 2017 09:37 am
Oscars 2017 The Icon’s losing face Meryl Streep is an icon. But Meryl Streep has 20 Oscar nominations and 3 wins. She loses 85% of the time at the Oscars. Which means she’s also used to losing. Isabelle Huppert… I’m not sure Isabelle has that losing percentage. Isabelle just won the Cesar Award on By Lainey • Feb 27, 2017 08:31 am
Oscars 2017 Alicia Vikander: Oscar boring Is it time to stop expecting Alicia Vikander to be one to style-watch? I just can’t remember the last time I was interested. This cap sleeve dress with the neckpiece is fine. It’s fine. You could even argue that as a returning Oscar winner and presenter, it was By Lainey • Feb 27, 2017 06:58 am
Oscars 2017 Dakota Johnson & Jamie Dornan: Worst Oscar presenters I’ve not yet seen Fifty Shades Darker. It was supposed to be a night out with friends and we’d all get drunk and laugh throughout the movie but we couldn’t get our sh-t together and then forgot about it the next week. The movie is making good By Lainey • Feb 27, 2017 06:14 am
Oscars 2017 John Cho’s Oscar weekend Before presenting at the Oscars on Sunday, John Cho was at the UTA rally. Did you hear about this? UTA throws an Oscar party every year. And it’s one of the best parties to go to for gossip. The misbehaving Batman has been known to accumulate some of his By Lainey • Feb 27, 2017 05:31 am
Top Reads The Award for Best Picture Duana: We were done, you know. We were watching the show, of course, but Emma Stone’s win was obvious, and I don’t even think Lainey came all the way out of the bathroom for Damian Chazelle as Best Director, and then of course La La Land won Best By Lainey • Feb 27, 2017 04:22 am
Oscars 2017 Intro for February 27, 2017 Dear Gossips, So… remember in the weeks leading up to the Oscars we kept talking about how this was the tightest race in years, across several major categories? Well, it happened in the most unexpected f-cking way. And yes, of course, we will get to the Best Picture clusterf-ck, of By Lainey • Feb 27, 2017 02:49 am
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Riley Keough’s Spirit pockets When I first saw her on the carpet, I wasn’t all that excited. It’s a white shift dress with pockets – serviceable but not remarkable. The boots pull it all together though. Patent leather white, 60s vibe…without looking tacky or costumey. Oh MY GOD and that Louis Vuitton By Lainey • Feb 25, 2017 08:50 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Amanda’s Spirit sweater You know what hasn’t happened lately? Amanda Peet hasn’t made any weird fashion choices. In fact, she’s consistently made really great fashion choices. To me, this is the perfect Spirit Awards outfit when you’re not really one of the major names in contention. It’s an By Lainey • Feb 25, 2017 08:35 pm
