Award Season Campaigning It’s about OppenPoor now The BAFTAs were last night in London, and forget Barbenheimer, it’s all about OppenPoor now. Barbie was, once again, shut out at an awards show, and we should now expect a similar result at the Oscars for Team Barbie, including Margot Robbie, Greta Gerwig, and Ryan Gosling (America Ferrera By Sarah • Feb 19, 2024 10:50 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for February 19, 2024 Dear Gossips, We are now less than three weeks away from the Oscars and this weekend the Oscar caravan was in England for the BAFTAs, with some notable exceptions, including the team from Killers of the Flower Moon. Lily Gladstone, who was not nominated for a BAFTA, was back in By Lainey • Feb 19, 2024 09:42 am
Award Season Campaigning Talk Show Lily Lily Gladstone was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night to talk about Killers of the Flower Moon but, of course, also to campaign for Oscar. We’re a week and a half away from the SAGs and the BAFTAs, where she was NOT nominated. The SAGs are By Lainey • Feb 15, 2024 02:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Let BCoop be BCoop Every year has one, a villain in the narrative of the Oscar season, some person or film everyone can rally around, as if to say, We might not agree on what should be Best Picture or who should win Best Actress, but we can all agree X sucks. In past By Sarah • Feb 13, 2024 10:55 am
BFFs Mark Ruffalo and Barry Keoghan are friends? Mark Ruffalo is a four-time Oscar nominee, all in the Best Supporting Actor category, and once again, he is not the favorite to win. He’s probably going to lose to his old buddy RDJ, but he’s enjoying his award campaign anyway, which most recently includes getting a By Sarah • Feb 09, 2024 09:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Celine and Margot get back to work The Oscars are still a month away, but some nominees are already moving onto their next projects. Notably, Celine Song is preparing her Past Lives follow-up, described as a rom-com which will be produced by A24, which also produced Past Lives. The film is called Materialists, and the By Sarah • Feb 08, 2024 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews How Ryan Became Ken Ryan Gosling covers the new issue of Variety, just as SAG voting is underway and, of course, ahead of the Oscar voting period, to finally talk about his preparation for playing Ken because as the magazine points out, even though there was obviously extensive marketing for the Barbie movie ahead By Lainey • Feb 07, 2024 01:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma’s day, continued Emma Stone continued promoting Poor Things in New York yesterday, finishing the day that started at Good Morning America at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where she talked Jeopardy! again. Annette Bening is getting feted in Santa Barbara, Emma Stone is doing the rounds in New York, Lily Gladstone By Sarah • Jan 31, 2024 09:45 am
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
Bad Style Emma Stone’s big two Emma Stone was nominated for two Oscars this week – Best Actress and Best Picture for Poor Things since she’s also a producer on the film. That makes her the second woman, after Frances McDormand (Nomadland), to be nominated for acting in a Best Picture nominee. Obviously not bad company By Lainey • Jan 26, 2024 12:06 pm
Style Colman Domingo’s Big Week It’s been a very big couple of years for Colman Domingo – but this week was perhaps the biggest of his career. Colman was nominated in the Best Actor Oscar category for his performance in Rustin. And yesterday two major announcements. First, he’ll play Joe Jackson in the upcoming By Lainey • Jan 26, 2024 10:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley and Carey appeal to the Brits Sarah posted the other day about Bradley Cooper heading out of New York right after the Oscar nominations. His film Maestro earned seven nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Actress, but not Best Director. He was, however, nominated for Best Director at the BAFTAs and this might explain By Lainey • Jan 25, 2024 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Team Strangers after the shutout Despite picking up six BAFTA nominations, Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers—one of my best films of the year—was shutout of nominations at the Oscars. 2023 was a good year in film, and there were never going to be enough spots to recognize all the deserving films By Sarah • Jan 24, 2024 01:32 pm
Award Season Campaigning BCoop heading out Bradley Cooper picked up three Oscar nominations yesterday for Maestro, for writing, acting, and producing the film. He did not, however, get nominated as a director, and where everyone rose up on behalf of Greta Gerwig, it kind of felt like everyone equally agreed to be fine with BCoop’s By Sarah • Jan 24, 2024 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for January 24, 2024 Dear Gossips, Following his Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor, Ryan Gosling issued a statement. Usually, these things are pretty standard—I’m so grateful, I’m so honored, yadda yadda. But Gosling broke with tradition, specifically mentioning Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie being overlooked in their respective, individual categories By Sarah • Jan 24, 2024 09:03 am
Award Season Campaigning The Oscars: No Pink and No Purple As Sarah just wrote in her main post about the Oscar nominations today, it was a lot of Barbie disrespect. Pink is clearly not the Academy’s colour. And neither is purple. Oprah has been out here wearing the sh-t out of all those purple dresses and in the By Lainey • Jan 23, 2024 11:07 am
