Award Season Campaigning Awards season takes shape As we’ve been saying, this awards season is wide open. But with the SAG nominations landing today, we’re finally starting to get a picture of what the Oscar race really looks like. For instance, The Power of the Dog, a favorite frontrunner since it hit the festival circuit By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 01:21 pm
Award Season Campaigning Ben Affleck pre-50 George Clooney’s The Tender Bar started streaming on Prime last Friday, which is why Ben Affleck was featured in the LA Times this weekend. He was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance in the film (he didn’t win) and he does have a shot at an By Lainey • Jan 10, 2022 01:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Best Actress Oscar Race post GGs As we’ve been seeing over the last few months, this is a wide-open award season. The Golden Globes may have been awarded last night but I don’t think the results there really established any clear frontrunners. In the Best Picture category, we always knew The Power of the By Lainey • Jan 10, 2022 11:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews There won’t be another Denzel Denzel Washington is on the cover of this week’s Variety, promoting his two-fer as both the star of The Tragedy of Macbeth and director of A Journal for Jordan. For Macbeth, he’s a heavy favorite for an Oscar nomination; if it happens, it would be his ninth nomination By Sarah • Jan 07, 2022 10:42 am
Award Season Campaigning The Golden Globe nominations The Golden Globe Awards will not be broadcast in January, because of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s past f-cksh-t. The organisation claims it has undergone sweeping changes but even getting to the point of agreeing to change seemed like such a challenge, right now there’s a lot of By Lainey • Dec 13, 2021 11:19 am
Award Season Campaigning West Side Story and Rachel Zegler, a contender? There’s been a LOT of hype about Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story. It’s currently sitting at 95% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes so far. The film opens this Friday and if it can do a solid box office, it’s almost guaranteed, not just for a Best Picture By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 12:22 pm
Award Season Campaigning Nicole Kidman goes for the lead As Sarah and I have been saying, it’s a wide open Oscar race this year across almost all the major categories, including Best Actress. Nicole Kidman has been making a strong push right now with Being the Ricardos. Last week she was in New York, attending multiple screenings and By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 09:50 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for December 7, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Critics Choice Awards television nominations were announced yesterday. In the comedy category, it was really great to see that Reservation Dogs will be competing for Best Comedy Series alongside Ted Lasso, Only Murders in the Building, Insecure, Hacks, The Other Two, and What We Do In The By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 09:01 am
Award Season Campaigning Annie supports Jessica I love it when celebrities give me the content I’ve been asking for. For the last month or so, as we get deeper into award season, I’ve been posting about celebrity support in an Oscar campaign and how every year, we see celebrities come out to endorse their By Lainey • Dec 03, 2021 12:11 pm
Bad Style Here comes Nicole Being The Ricardos comes out next week, and while reviews are still embargoed, Oscar buzz is building momentum for Nicole Kidman. Awards season remains extremely competitive, but Kidman is looking more and more like a solid pick for a nomination (along with Olivia Colman and Kristen Stewart). Here’s Kidman, By Sarah • Dec 03, 2021 10:21 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Maggie Gyllenhaal wins big at the Gothams Maggie Gyllenhaal was the top winner at the Gotham Awards last night, winning three statues from different juries of her peers in her hometown New York crowd for her feature directorial debut, The Lost Daughter. For a New Yorker, and independent film champion like Maggie, the Gothams are definitely a By Joanna • Nov 30, 2021 12:45 pm
Award Season Campaigning Kristen Stewart gives a speech Award season, we’re in it now, and it was the Gotham Awards last night celebrating independent film where Kristen Stewart was honoured with the Performer Tribute Award. This, of course, is connected to her recent acclaimed performance in Pablo Larraín’s Spencer but she wasn’t nominated for it By Lainey • Nov 30, 2021 11:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nightmare Alley continues teasing us Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley opens in a month, and so far, it’s the least thirsty of the major awards contenders. I’m sure that will change as we get closer to the press tour and unleashing Bradley Cooper in a year with the toughest dude competition in By Sarah • Nov 19, 2021 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 18, 2021 Dear Gossips, Will Smith, Saniyya Sidney, and Demi Singleton, who play Venus and Serena Williams respectively, were in London last night for the UK premiere of King Richard, which opens tomorrow in theatres and will also stream on HBO Max. They also did a photo call at Wimbledon. The film By Lainey • Nov 18, 2021 09:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lady Gaga: How Lady Gaga became Lady Gucci Lady Gaga brought House of Gucci home last night at the New York premiere. As expected, she served full Gaga on the carpet in a black sheer halter Armani Privé dress wide a side-bow and severe hair and makeup, appropriate to the person she’s playing in the film: Patrizia By Lainey • Nov 17, 2021 11:03 am
Award Season Campaigning Lady Gaga: Home for Gucci Tonight is the New York City premiere of House of Gucci and we’ve already seen Lady Gaga light it up on the UK red carpet and in Milan, but NYC is home for her. And, well, she’s been going all out to promote this film and her performance By Lainey • Nov 16, 2021 01:56 pm
