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
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 31, 2024 Dear Gossips, After a crush of award shows in January, we have a little break—on the film side, anyway—until the end of February, when the BAFTAs and the SAG Awards open and close the week of February 18th. That does not mean, however, that awards season is quiet. By Sarah • Jan 31, 2024 09:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kenneth Branagh is back with his ferret-face The first trailer for Death on the Nile, the sequel to Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express, dropped this week, so you know what that means…it’s the return of Kenneth Branagh’s ludicrous Hercule Poirot mustache! In Orient Express, Branagh’s first turn as Poirot, I By Sarah • Aug 21, 2020 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Maybe this year, Annette? Annette Bening has not yet won an Oscar. Sure, she’s been nominated four times, but that statue has yet to be engraved with her name. To many, it’s most definitely “too early” to tell, but for a few hours yesterday, Annette’s latest film The Report was the By Joanna • Jan 29, 2019 11:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Olivia Wilde after Life Itself Chances are you haven’t seen Life Itself. The reviews are dismal. Life Itself is currently sitting at 11% on Rotten Tomatoes. If you haven’t seen it, please know that I saw it for you at TIFF. And 11% is generous. Which is super disappointing. Because of the cast. By Lainey • Sep 28, 2018 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Annette Bening goes comic book Captain Marvel filming is ongoing, and Brie Larson is still wearing that green suit that impresses no one. (I will NEVER stop complaining about this.) The movie is also still casting up, adding Annette Bening as “a scientist”. Captain Marvel stories are always full of scientists because Carol Danvers is By Sarah • May 11, 2018 01:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool may be the one for Annette Bening Annette Bening and Jamie Bell dance their way into your hearts in Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool. Really, they do. Within the first 10 minutes of the movie, they’re grooving to Boogie Oogie Oogie inside Gloria Grahame’s boarding house. Yes, obviously, there’s an age difference By Joanna • Sep 15, 2017 01:47 pm
Mel Gibson Not yet, Annette, not yet Amy Remember last year when Leonardo DiCaprio was on the award circuit for The Revenant how the storyline was all what a travesty it was that he didn’t have an Oscar. Leo’s due! It’s his time! Like somehow he, Leonardo DiCaprio, LEONARDO DICAPRIO!, was hard done by. Forty By Lainey • Jan 24, 2017 01:13 pm
Natalie Portman Intro for November 22, 2016 Dear Gossips, I love Annette Bening’s voice. And her diction. She speaks with such intention. And the sound of it is so rich, so thick, I feel like if she were reading to me I could remember every word. Interestingly, Taraji P Henson, during the same conversation, talks about By Lainey • Nov 22, 2016 08:55 am
BFFs Eddie Redmayne for Emma Stone It’s barely November, but Emma Stone is calling up the heavy hitters to help celebrate her (fantastic) work in La La Land. A few weeks ago, Jennifer Lawrence held down the fort for Emma in New York and made a Tonya Harding reference for the ages — but last night, By Joanna • Nov 02, 2016 01:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Yes, Annette Bening deserves all that Oscar buzz for 20th Century Women Sight unseen, Annette Bening was hailed as a Best Actress contender (and possible frontrunner) for her work in 20th Century Women, which premiered on Saturday at the New York Film Festival. The same hype followed Viola Davis for her work in Fences, and coincidentally, the trailers for both of these By Joanna • Oct 12, 2016 10:40 am
Annette Bening Intro for October 7, 2016 Dear Gossips, Benedict Cumberbatch covers the new issue of Vanity Fair which, I guess, makes sense because Doctor Strange is coming out in a month and Marvel is money. But that doesn’t mean he’s the magazine’s best celebrity interview this month. Warren Beatty is the magazine’s By Lainey • Oct 07, 2016 09:45 am
TIFF 2013 Coverage Annette Bening at TIFF Why can’t Annette Bening be part of the Oscar conversation? If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know I’ll always be bitter about the fact that Hilary Swank has TWO Oscars (!!!) and Annette Bening doesn’t. Annette was at the VISA Screening Room at By Lainey • Sep 13, 2013 10:42 am
Girlcrushes Awesome Let this be awesome. I feel like it could be SO awesome. And I am so exciting* for it I might have to punch myself in the face. Here are Annette Bening and Kristen Wiig on the set of Imogene. Described as a “dark comedy”, Imogene features Kristen’s character By Lainey • Aug 18, 2011 10:00 am
Style Annette Bening Written by Duana What do you suppose Annette Bening does on Oscar night? It must be a routine now, do you think? Does she have a private rant and a cry in the car and then get over herself? Does she not talk about losing the Oscar at all, and By Lainey • Feb 28, 2011 07:19 am
Girlcrushes BAFTA one shoulder: Annette Bening & Emma Watson Two actresses – one a veteran, in the third act of her career, the other an ingénue, perhaps trying to terminate the first act of her career to begin a long, long second act that will see her emerge from underneath the heavy weight of a beloved literary character to embody By Lainey • Feb 13, 2011 08:09 pm
