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 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 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
