Oscars 2022 Zendaya, Olivia, Rachel: Oscar Sparkles There was a lot of sparkle at the Oscars, including Zendaya, my best dressed for the night in a crop-top button down and a high-waisted sparkle skirt by Valentino. It sort of reminds me of Sharon Stone’s Gap button down paired with a Vera Wang skirt at the 1996 By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 10:58 am
Oscars 2022 Kristen, Cynthia, Niecy, and Wanda: Queer Love at the Oscars Look, I wish we lived in a time when it wasn’t particularly noteworthy to see queer couples on Hollywood’s biggest night. I get that dedicating a post to queer love at the Oscars could be interpreted as a form of othering. Because in an ideal world, it’d By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 10:20 am
Oscars 2022 Tropical Fruit Oscar Colours Beyoncé started it, of course. Obviously there’s much more discourse on that elsewhere, and obviously it’s not like anyone knew that ‘tennis ball’ was going to be the colour of the night. But leave it to this, the absolute hands-down weirdest Oscars ever to be the riot of By Duana • Mar 28, 2022 09:56 am
Oscars 2022 Billie and Zoë: The Oscars could use more cuteness Duana texted me right after this happened – Zoë Kravitz and Jake Gyllenhaal presented Best Original Song to Billie Eilish and Finneas for “No Time To Die” and after their acceptance speech, this happened: BILLIE AND ZOË JUMPING UP AND DOWN IM CRYING THEYRE SO CUTE #Oscar pic.twitter.com/4NDmCOlgTn By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 08:16 am
Oscars 2022 The power of anything but Netflix The anti-Netflix bias in the Academy is REAL. Sure, Netflix logs a lot of nominations, but the Academy is reluctant to hand them a Best Picture win. Apple, in fact, becomes the first streamer to win Best Picture with CODA, despite only being in the game for two years. Jane By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 07:45 am
Oscars 2022 Sebastian and Kodi: Easter candy men Soothing pastels, sweet pastels. Rest your eyeballs on these images of Sebastián Yatra and Kodi Smit-McPhee dressed in tuxedoes so pale they are bold, donning spring pastels and looking like a couple of Easter M&Ms. Yatra turned up in a cotton candy pink morning suit from Moschino, and By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 07:25 am
Oscars 2022 Ariana DeBose, Rita, and Anita Make History Do you ever wonder how Best Supporting Actress came to be the first award presented? I remember when I figured out that it was always a crowd-pleaser, because everyone in that category is largely there for having had a blast in a role that wasn’t about how pretty they By Duana • Mar 28, 2022 07:00 am
Oscars 2022 Troy, Yuh-jung, and CODA: Love and Kindness at the Oscars As Sarah just wrote in the previous post, there is a lot of work that has to be done in the days and months ahead to fix the Oscars – and this was the case even before last night after all the controversy about the eight categories that were cut from By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 06:15 am
Oscars 2022 The Chaoscars When I dubbed the 2022 Oscars the “Chaoscars”, I didn’t mean it like this! And look, we’ll talk about the biggest story of the night in its own post, but for now, let’s start with everything else and how this was a truly terrible Oscars from start By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 05:45 am
Oscars 2022 Intro for March 28, 2022 Dear Gossips, It is a truth universally acknowledged that when Beyoncé opens a show, no other point in the show will reach the heights that it did when Beyoncé was in command. That was always going to be the case with the Oscars this year; it’s just that…well… By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 05:10 am
What Else What Else? The Oscars are now just 48 hours away and there are already some possible controversies. First, we don’t know exactly who will show up with reports that there are still some people, and some nominees, who might be out with COVID. Then there’s the whole debate about cutting By Lainey • Mar 25, 2022 04:11 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, March 25, 2022 Doja Cat is having a not-great time on tour in South America as her concert in Paraguay was cancelled because of terrible storms and flooding and then she went on to Brazil and wasn’t happy with her performance, which she tweeted about. That made her fans in Paraguay feel By Maria • Mar 25, 2022 03:20 pm
Oscars 2022 Predicting the Chaoscars This awards season has been 1) INTERMINABLE, and 2) CHAOTIC. Dramatic momentum shifts, wild nominations at precursor award shows, races too close to call—these Oscars are so chaotic, they should be called the Chaoscars . Predicting Oscar wins is tougher than usual for a number of reasons, ranging from the By Sarah • Mar 25, 2022 03:02 pm
Outfit of the Week Outfit of the Week: Classic Gwen Stefani Gwen Stefani was on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night to promote her makeup line GXVE Beauty (pronounced “give”). I really want to try the gel liner. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I’ve been on a year-long search for brown liquid waterproof eyeliner because MAC discontinued their Liquid By Lainey • Mar 25, 2022 02:21 pm
TV Updates Simone Ashley: The New Bridgerton Breakout Hello are you there? Or are you mainlining Bridgerton? I know season two just dropped today on Netflix but in some parts of the world, today is over halfway over and it’s eight episodes, eight hours, it’s very possible that some of you are done. I say this By Lainey • Mar 25, 2022 12:38 pm
Top Reads Will and Kate: At Least Stick the Dismount? Prince William and Kate Cambridge’s tour of Belize, Jamaica, and The Bahamas was supposed to be a “charm offensive”, the term used to describe these trips when British royals go abroad and hypnotise the people with their big smiles and good manners. And for over a decade, that’s By Lainey • Mar 25, 2022 11:45 am
