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
Award Season Campaigning Most of the movie men The Critics Choice Awards were last night, and Oscar nominations close tomorrow, and between these two points in time, we’re getting a clearer picture of the Oscar race. Robert Downey, Jr., for instance, widens his lead in the Best Supporting Actor category, while taking potshots at critics in his By Sarah • Jan 15, 2024 12:14 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 15, 2024 Dear Gossips, Did you get the sense during last night’s Critics Choice Awards that, on the television side, the nominees and winners were kinda saving it for the Emmys? The Emmys were always intended to happen on a Monday, but originally it was supposed to be back in September. By Lainey • Jan 15, 2024 09:15 am
Gorgessity Lily’s big day Lily Gladstone was honored as the National Board of Review’s Best Actress for Killers of the Flower Moon. She had a busy day yesterday, appearing on The Today Show in the morning, and at the NBR Gala that night. Let’s talk about her looks, starting with the AMAZING By Lainey • Jan 12, 2024 10:41 am
Award Season Campaigning The never-ending contender parade With the pace of events this week and next, you would think the Oscars are right around the corner and not in f-cking MARCH. Last night was yet another event, the National Board of Review Gala in New York. All the Oscar girlies came to play, plus a few people By Sarah • Jan 12, 2024 10:22 am
Award Season Campaigning America and Penelope keep pushing When the Screen Actors Guild Award nominations were announced earlier this week, Penelope Cruz’s nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category (for Ferrari) was described as a “surprise” by some of the media coverage because Ferrari really hasn’t been a factor during the race and Penelope’s performance By Lainey • Jan 11, 2024 01:09 pm
Gorgessity Greta, Charles, and Barry: No SAGs for my Faves My three darlings, Greta Lee, Charles Melton, and Barry Keoghan were all at the Governors Awards last night. None of them were nominated for a SAG Award today. At this point in the Oscar race so far, out of the three of them, Barry had the lowest chances but as By Lainey • Jan 10, 2024 01:40 pm
Award Season Campaigning A Campaign of Actors So far we’ve only talked about the actresses who showed up to campaign at the Governors Awards last night, but so many of the actors in contention were out there hustling ahead of the Oscar nominations. In the best actor race, the two Golden Globe winners, Paul Giamatti and By Lainey • Jan 10, 2024 12:25 pm
Gorgessity Lily and Emma: The Frontrunners at the Governors Awards At this point in the Best Actress Oscar race, it’s safe to say that out of five nomination spots, two are pretty much secure: Lily Gladstone and Emma Stone. They are the frontrunners, having both just won Golden Globes on Sunday and they will most likely be nominated for By Lainey • Jan 10, 2024 10:36 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 10, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Governors Awards happened last night, an event that is more important than the Golden Globes two nights before. Because this is the actual Oscar Academy – the people who vote on Oscars are in that room, and during such a tightly contested award season, visibility is critical, which By Lainey • Jan 10, 2024 09:13 am
Quiveration Barry Keoghan: A Leading Man’s Underwear Due to all-nighter fatigue after the Golden Globes, I was not effusive enough in expressing how much I loved Barry Keoghan’s fit that night. But we saw this during award season last year, when Barry, making his first award show run, introduced us to his red carpet personality – and By Lainey • Jan 09, 2024 01:33 pm
Award Season Campaigning It’s pronounced Day-Vine (Joy Randolph) It is a highly competitive Oscar year—my Top 10 is taking forever because there were SO many good films in 2023!—but one category is looking increasingly clear, and that is Best Supporting Actress. Da’Vine Joy Randolph has been one of the top contenders since The Holdovers made By Sarah • Jan 08, 2024 01:20 pm
BFFs The Best Actresses showed up As Sarah wrote in the previous post, the Palm Springs Film Festival is a major award season campaign stop given its timing, usually just before Golden Globe weekend, and how many veteran Oscar voters are usually in attendance. So the actors filed in, and so did the actresses. We’ve By Lainey • Jan 05, 2024 10:14 am
BFFs The Best Actors showed up The Palm Springs Film Festival opened last night, and it brought all the Oscar contenders out of the post-holiday woodwork. As proof that he does care about these things, Leonardo DiCaprio ditched Cabo earlier in the day, his p-ssy posse mates Tobey Maguire and Lucas Haas and current girlfriend, Vittoria By Sarah • Jan 05, 2024 09:40 am
Quiveration Charles Melton’s Birthday Award Today is Charles Melton’s birthday. He’s 33 years old. He celebrated last night at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards where he accepted the award (announced a few weeks ago) for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in May December. Think about the magnitude of this achievement. By Lainey • Jan 04, 2024 01:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling: Kemortality You’re sick of me saying this but that doesn’t make it any less true: it’s award season, and some people might be shrugging off the slog of the new year but for the celebrities who are in contention, there’s no time to slack, not when the By Lainey • Jan 03, 2024 01:55 pm
