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 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
Sports TNT into the Playoffs Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, known around these parts as TNT, which is what Sarah decided we would call them here at LaineyGossip, unlike on TikTok which refers to them as “Tayvis”, gave us a brand new episode of their rom-com to end 2023. And this is fitting…because By Lainey • Jan 02, 2024 12:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zendaya 2024 Who will dominate the pop culture landscape in Q1 of 2024? Here’s what we can count on and look forward to: there will be so much Zendaya content for at least the first four months of the year. Because she has two major projects coming out to kick it By Lainey • Jan 02, 2024 10:12 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 2, 2024 Dear Gossips, Happy New Year! I had a moment of disbelief just now as I created a new file on my laptop labelled “2024”. Really?! How are we already 24 years past the year 2000?! It just keeps speeding by, and there’s no time to waste, because we’re By Lainey • Jan 02, 2024 09:13 am
Award Season Campaigning Rachel McAdams (barely) campaigns too Here’s something for those who still carry a lot of Notebook gossip nostalgia for Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. Is there a chance that they could both show up to the Oscars in March? A small one, but it’s still a chance. And on that note, let me By Lainey • Dec 21, 2023 11:29 am
Award Season Campaigning Ken Kampaigns at Kristmas I hope the team behind the Barbie market campaign this past summer, ahead of the release of the movie and also now, during award season, is getting a holiday bonus. Because the work they produced delivered measurable results (a massive box office) and made a huge cultural impact. Barbie was By Lainey • Dec 21, 2023 10:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Contenders and a Covey Sisters Reunion The Unforgettable Gala, honouring Asian and Pacific Islander performances, was once again hosted by Simu Liu this year. Simu is enjoying award season as a member of the Barbie cast and I really like what he said at the event about being part of Barbenheimer: “I am responsible for 100% By Lainey • Dec 18, 2023 03:05 pm
BFFs Michael B Jordan and his friend, Ben Affleck Some or many would assume, seeing those two names, that they’d be featured in Variety’s Actors on Actors series. Not this time, not this year. This year the two were paired for the Directors on Directors series and it makes perfect sense. Ben Affleck directed himself in Air By Lainey • Dec 14, 2023 10:36 am
BFFs Coop and the Ladies: Carey, Lea, and Gaga Bradley Cooper’s Maestro has been in theatres a couple of weeks now and will start streaming on Netflix on December 20. It is also a contender this award season in multiple categories – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Actress. So, as we have seen, Coop has been campaigning. By Lainey • Dec 13, 2023 09:59 am
TV Updates Jennifer Aniston’s year-end push The strike was happening when the third season of The Morning Show premiered which meant that Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon could not put the same energy into promoting their series that they have in the past. There were a couple of magazine covers here and there but no carpets By Lainey • Dec 12, 2023 02:24 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for December 12, 2023 Dear Gossips, Is May December a comedy? I mean, I’m the kind of person who laughs in discomfort, in situations where laughter is totally inappropriate, which I guess tracks with this particular film. And I did laugh at some of Natalie Portman’s performance choices because she was so By Lainey • Dec 12, 2023 09:04 am
TV Updates The unserious Golden Globes nominations The nominations for the Golden Globes were announced this morning. Remember how we almost didn’t have to go through with the Golden Globes anymore? Le sigh, so close, yet so far. Instead, this is the first post-HFPA Globes, as the HFPA has dissolved, and the Globes are now By Sarah • Dec 11, 2023 12:21 pm
BFFs Charles and Julianne on repeat (Coop on the grill) Following the London premiere of May December, Charles Melton and Julianne Moore stuck around for another screening and Q&A at Soho House, finessing the BAFTA voters and whatever Academy members are in London right now. As Lainey mentioned, the Golden Globe nominations will be announced Monday, and it’ By Sarah • Dec 08, 2023 09:28 am
