Movie Reviews and Previews Predicting the 2022 Oscar winners I can honestly say going into Oscar weekend I have never felt LESS confident in my picks. SO many categories are completely up in the air, and while that makes watching the Oscars more fun, it definitely makes predicting the Oscars a nightmare. Entering my Oscar pools this year felt By Sarah • Mar 09, 2023 01:10 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for March 9, 2023 Dear Gossips, With Oscar week upon us, it’s time once again for The Hollywood Reporter’s “brutally honest Oscar ballot”. This year, a member of the short films and animated features branch shared his thoughts on the nominees with Scott Feinberg. In the past, these anonymous ballots have gotten By Sarah • Mar 09, 2023 09:14 am
Gorgessity Jennifer Lawrence: A Quiet But Effective Campaign Jennifer Lawrence and husband Cooke Maroney stepped out for dinner last night in LA. We are now just nine days away from the Oscars; the Academy announced its first slate of presenters yesterday and while JLaw is not on the list, yet, she has been quietly active during award season By Lainey • Mar 03, 2023 10:01 am
Amazingness Hakuna Matata, Tom Cruise Tom Cruise was celebrated in Hollywood on Saturday night at the Producers Guild of America awards, where he was presented the career achievement David O Selznick Award. Top Gun: Maverick was also nominated for Best Picture. Everything Everywhere All At Once took the prize, which is a solid bellwether for By Lainey • Feb 27, 2023 01:44 pm
Award Season Campaigning Brendan and Austin are tight too Sarah just wrote in the previous post about the Best Actress Oscar race and how it’s pretty much a dead heat between Michelle Yeoh and Cate Blanchett now after the SAG Awards. On the Best Actor side, it’s tight too. Best Supporting Actor for Ke Huy Quan is By Lainey • Feb 27, 2023 11:10 am
Style Outfit of the Week: Jennifer Coolidge’s Best Dress Before we get into Jennifer Coolidge – can we talk about Alexis Stone? In case you missed it, this is Alexis Stone at the Diesel show the other day looking like Jennifer Coolidge. From this angle… Alexis really does look like Jennifer, non?! Unfortunately not so much when Alexis was sat By Lainey • Feb 24, 2023 01:31 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Zendaya Drought is Over It’s a busy weekend coming up in Hollywood. In the previous post about Tom Cruise I mentioned that the Producers Guild will be handing out its awards on Saturday, and then the SAGs are happening on Sunday. But also on Saturday it’s the NAACP Image Awards, hosted by By Lainey • Feb 23, 2023 01:34 pm
Award Season Campaigning Tom Cruise: Mr Popular Goes to the Office The Hollywood Reporter published the most LOL article about Tom Cruise yesterday about Tom’s recent day of popularity. It was ten days ago, on February 13, when Tom made his first in-person appearance on the Oscar campaign circuit at the Nominees Luncheon where, in a room full of nominees By Lainey • Feb 23, 2023 12:36 pm
Award Season Campaigning Judd Apatow takes on Tom Cruise As Sarah noted yesterday in her coverage of the BAFTAs and the Directors Guild of America awards, Everything Everywhere All At Once was the DGA’s choice for Best Picture, honouring Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for their work on the film. Everything Everywhere All At Once leads at the By Lainey • Feb 21, 2023 10:14 am
Award Season Campaigning The big BAFTA weekend We are getting down to the wire in awards season, with the BAFTAs and the Directors’ Guild Awards occurring over the weekend. Because of their recent voting changes, the BAFTAs aren’t as central to the Oscar race as they used to be; for instance, despite both giving excellent performances, By Sarah • Feb 20, 2023 11:06 am
Quiveration Austin Butler Handles the Heat Austin Butler has been at the Santa Barbara Film Festival the last few days, participating in panel events and interviews, as one of the recipients of the Virtuosos Award, recognising the best performances of the last year. This has been the major Oscar campaign stop this week, as several Oscar By Lainey • Feb 17, 2023 12:02 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for February 17, 2023 Dear Gossips, After her surprise Oscar nomination for Best Actress, Andrea Riseborough has kept a low profile, skipping out on the Oscar nominees luncheon earlier this week, and the London Critics Circle Film Awards last week. She has a built-in excuse, as she is working on The Palace, an upcoming By Sarah • Feb 17, 2023 09:01 am
Award Season Campaigning Hollywood’s Great Cate Here’s what I’ve observed about how people in Hollywood perceive Cate Blanchett over the last 17 years I’ve spent working as an entertainment reporter. I’ll always remember Mark Ruffalo walking out of a junket suite at TIFF jokingly exclaiming to an entire hallway of journalists that By Lainey • Feb 14, 2023 12:04 pm
Award Season Campaigning Tom Cruise’s Hollywood Homecoming It’s an Oscar tradition: the Nominees Luncheon, where the nominees gather to congratulate each other and ostensibly put a pause on their campaign activities (as if) and take a class photo. But even in a room full of stars, one star seemed to be the star that everyone wanted By Lainey • Feb 14, 2023 10:54 am
Bad Style Andrea Riseborough did not go The awkwardly named London Critics Circle Film Awards occurred yesterday, definitely the less embarrassing awards given out on February 5, a day that shall live in infamy. It was mostly British-Irish people in attendance, with a few notable exceptions, because it mostly honors British-Irish film, but Michelle Yeoh was there, By Sarah • Feb 06, 2023 03:00 pm
Award Season Campaigning Campaigning for Grownups The Oscar nominations have been announced. So Oscar campaigning is now in its most intense stretch, especially with so many tight races across the board, including Best Picture. One of the big campaign stops that brought out several contenders this weekend was the AARP Movies for Grownup Awards. AARP used By Lainey • Jan 30, 2023 03:34 pm
