Quiveration Jonathan Bailey’s victory lap Italian fashion designer Brunello Cucinelli has a documentary about his life coming out called Brunello, Il Visionario Garbato (you can see the trailer in Italian here), and I bring this up solely because Jonathan Bailey showed up to the premiere looking like this: This makes me wish we could go By Sarah • Dec 05, 2025 11:21 am
Top Reads Angelina remembers her mom Angelina Jolie was at the Santa Barbara Film Festival last night to receive the Maltin Modern Master Award and sat with Leonard Maltin for a Q&A about her career before accepting the honour. On Friday she’s nominated for Best Actress at the Critics’ Choice Awards so we’ By Lainey • Feb 06, 2025 11:16 am
Style LV in Barcelona On the women’s wear side, the two most high-profile Louis Vuitton ambassadors are probably Zendaya and Emma Stone. Neither one was in Barcelona yesterday for the presentation of Nicolas Ghesquiere’s latest cruise collection. Emma was just in Cannes last weekend for the world premiere of Yorgos Lanthimos’s By Lainey • May 24, 2024 11:20 am
Oscars 2024 What Does A Lapel Pin Say? The Artists4Ceasefire pins worn at the Oscars last night actually debuted at (or before) the Grammy Awards, and are representative of a group of artists petitioning Joe Biden to ask for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, after the 30,000 lives lost and over 70,000 injured in Gaza and By Duana • Mar 11, 2024 11:05 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 17, 2024 Dear Gossips, Yesterday was the last day for Academy members to vote on who will be nominated for this year’s Oscars. The nominations will be announced next Tuesday 23 January. Over the last week or so, there’s been a big push in support of Ava DuVernay’s Origin. By Lainey • Jan 17, 2024 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Ava DuVernay’s Origin In Origin, Ava DuVernay faces an almost impossible task, to adapt not just a work of non-fiction, not just a prize-winning text, but an almost academic thematic exploration into the defining characteristic that links oppressive systems across time and continent into a feature film. Isabel Wilkerson’s book, Caste: The By Sarah • Sep 12, 2023 12:33 pm
Style Louis Vuitton Hollywood The Louis Vuitton show is always a big celebrity draw and after almost two years of restrictions, when so many people couldn’t travel, today’s presentation brought out the stars, some of whom haven’t been seen all that often during the pandemic. Like Emma Stone who matched in By Lainey • Mar 07, 2022 11:50 am
Style Ava, Shamier, and Celebrating Black Cinema In the previous post about Drake, I wrote about him devaluing the Grammys and assigning value elsewhere. That’s what Shamier Anderson and his brother Stephan James are attempting to do with The Black Academy, measuring success on new terms, reframing the benchmark of success in entertainment, and who gets By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 11:19 am
Emmy Awards 2021 Debbie Allen: Four Canes to Honour a Legend Big cheers to Debbie Allen. I feel like, I don’t know, we’ve been kept informed of her career for a long time? Or that she was already a big deal, a trailblazer, back in the days of A Different World, where she would have first met Jada Pinkett-Smith By Duana • Sep 20, 2021 11:23 am
Business of Hollywood Ava’s influence The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences held their elections this week, and Ava DuVernay has been elected to the Directors’ Branch, joining Steven Spielberg and Susanne Bier as one of the three “governors” representing directors in AMPAS. This year’s elections make the board of governors the most By Sarah • Jun 11, 2020 03:12 pm
Equality Issues Intro for June 9, 2020 Dear Gossips, Ava DuVernay’s tweet yesterday illuminated for me that I’ve been doing it wrong in not naming George Floyd’s murderers, referring to them only as police officers, even though by now you probably know their names: Derek Chauvin is the one who held Floyd down with By Lainey • Jun 09, 2020 09:11 am
Equality Issues Intro for May 29, 2020 Dear Gossips, Yesterday on The Social, our friend Tyrone Edwards joined us to talk about mental health. What followed was a personal and powerful expression of grief and anger as he shared his fears and frustration about the racism and the violence Black people continue to experience. Here’s a By Lainey • May 29, 2020 09:13 am
Royals House Sussex: Movies and the Met Gala Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be together in London for the first time since Sussexit was confirmed tomorrow for the Endeavour Fund Awards. On Friday they’ll attend the Mountbatten Festival of Music at Royal Albert Hall. And on Saturday Meghan is rumoured to be making an appearance at By Lainey • Mar 03, 2020 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for January 13, 2020 Dear Gossips, Big day today. And normally the biggest headline here at this site would be that it’s Oscar nomination day as we brace for whatever controversy comes out of the snubs and exclusions. To give you some idea of what we might expect, The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott By Lainey • Jan 13, 2020 08:48 am
TV Updates Golden Globe Nominations: Snubs and the End of An Era We’re doing more than one post today about the Golden Globe nominations but let’s start with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association because this is their event. This is a group of 90 or so international journalists known for making odd choices – and not always bad. In the television By Lainey • Dec 09, 2019 10:45 am
Storm Reid Intro for October 7, 2019 Dear Gossips, It seems like most of Black Hollywood was in Atlanta this weekend for the grand opening of Tyler Perry Studios. Oprah and Stedman walked the carpet together. Halle Berry and Whoopi Goldberg shared a moment on the red carpet. Samuel L Jackson, Viola Davis, and Tiffany Haddish were By Lainey • Oct 07, 2019 09:30 am
