Award Season Campaigning Timmy is still campaigning In case you missed it, and how could you?!, WE HAVE AN OSCARS RACE, gossips! There are tight races across the board – in best picture, in both the supporting actor categories, and also in best actor now that Michael B Jordan is finalllyyy getting some respect for playing TWO distinctly By Lainey • Mar 04, 2026 01:23 pm
Style Jessie Buckley’s Bride energy Jessie Buckley is currently the Oscar favourite in the best actress category. Obviously no one is a winner until they actually win so if there is a challenger it’s Rose Byrne. If Jessie prevails at the SAGs this weekend though, it’s safe to say that it’s over. By Lainey • Feb 26, 2026 02:03 pm
Award Season Campaigning The State of the Supporting Races As Sarah just mentioned in her posts about the BAFTAs, while One Battle After Another and Jessie Buckley are the clearly heavyweight favourites in the best picture and best actress races, the three other acting categories are much more unpredictable at this point where Oscar is concerned. Robert Aramayo’s By Lainey • Feb 23, 2026 12:21 pm
Award Season Campaigning The BAFTAs bring surprises and controversy I bet the Brits would love a day off from controversy, but that is not in god’s plan, apparently. The BAFTAs delivered controversy last night in two different ways. First, let’s talk about the lead acting categories, the site of a major upset (if you don’t pay By Sarah • Feb 23, 2026 11:29 am
Paul Thomas Anderson Paul Thomas Anderson and Ryan Coogler are it With the BAFTAs last night, we are now entering the meat of awards season. The Oscars are T-minus three weeks away, and we’re finally hearing from people who will get to vote for the Academy Awards. The BAFTAs and the Academy share membership overlap, so the BAFTAs, while a By Sarah • Feb 23, 2026 10:30 am
Timothee Chalamet Timmy plays favourites American Cinematheque this week is running a Timothée Chalamet Retrospective, which is wild to me, LOL. He’s 30 years old, like freshly 30. Their rationale, however, is that he has four Oscar nominations, to date, and if you consider that of the eight films that are screening during this By Lainey • Feb 11, 2026 03:09 pm
Award Season Campaigning Jacob Elordi’s big boost The Oscar nominees luncheon happened yesterday – and this year’s edition of the annual tradition was a bit more special because the luncheon was cancelled in 2025 due to the wildfires. Right now, as we enter the final stretch of award season, it’s actually looking quite competitive in three By Lainey • Feb 11, 2026 10:48 am
Award Season Campaigning Ben Affleck: Super Bowl and Marty Supreme I guess a Ben Affleck Dunkin’ Super Bowl ad is now an annual tradition. It was teased in the days leading up to the weekend that Ben had recruited an all-star roster of TV celebrities for this year’s edition and, indeed, it was more than initially expected. The premise By Lainey • Feb 09, 2026 01:57 pm
Style Kate plus Diane and Norman Kate Hudson has now been nominated in the best actress category for a SAG, BAFTA, and Oscar for her performance in Song Sung Blue. She is not a favourite to win – right now Jessie Buckley is the frontrunner and if there’s a dark horse in the race it would By Lainey • Jan 28, 2026 01:34 pm
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Jacob Elordi brings his dog First Margot Robbie, now Jacob Elordi has his turn on Jimmy Kimmel Live! I actually double checked the corporate relationships here, to see if Disney, which owns ABC which airs Kimmel, is ultimately behind “Wuthering Heights”, what with the way that movie’s stars are passing through like Marvel actors By Sarah • Jan 28, 2026 11:51 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 27, 2026 Dear Gossips, The BAFTA nominations were announced this morning, hosted by David Jonsson and Aimee Lou Wood. There is overlap between the British Academy and the Oscar Academy, so not only are the BAFTAs themselves considered prestigious, the BAFTAs can be useful for predicting how the Oscars might swing. Not By Lainey • Jan 27, 2026 09:22 am
Award Season Campaigning Teyana Taylor: Host, Nominee, and “Bernadine” Teyana Taylor received her first Oscar nomination yesterday for her performance as Perfidia Beverly Hills in One Battle After Another. She’s contending for Best Supporting Actress, and this is looking like an actual race between Teyana and Amy Madigan when, just before the holidays, it was thought that Teyana By Lainey • Jan 23, 2026 01:18 pm
Award Season Campaigning Michael and Kate the morning after Yesterday morning, Michael B. Jordan earned his first Oscar nomination, one of sixteen record-breaking nominations earned by Sinners. Later in the day, he was all smiles while out in Los Angeles (he’s currently editing his remake of The Thomas Crown Affair). Like literally not even getting photographed by paparazzi By Sarah • Jan 23, 2026 09:55 am
Leonardo DiCaprio Leo goes shopping Leonardo DiCaprio went shopping the other day with Vittoria Ceretti in New York and that might seem like a sentence you’ve read before – that Leo and his model girlfriend were buying clothes – but the reason it’s occupying more thought than usual is because she wasn’t the one By Lainey • Jan 20, 2026 11:21 am
Award Season Campaigning RDJ shows up for Timmy As mentioned several times today, it is Oscar nominations voting week, as Academy members decide on which artists will be nominated for the Oscars, happening on March 15. The nominations will be announced a week today, next Thursday. So the contenders and their various studios are doing what they can By Lainey • Jan 15, 2026 12:31 pm
Jacob Elordi Jacob and Olivia… again and again Back in the summer, it was reported that Jacob Elordi and Olivia Jade Giannulli had broken up. Then she showed up with him at the TIFF premiere of Frankenstein, a whole heatscore in white, and it was obvious that their split was brief. A few weeks after that, it was By Lainey • Jan 15, 2026 11:24 am
