Award Season Campaigning Tom Cruise: Mr Popular Goes to the Office The Hollywood Reporter published the most LOL article about Tom Cruise yesterday about Tom’s recent day of popularity. It was ten days ago, on February 13, when Tom made his first in-person appearance on the Oscar campaign circuit at the Nominees Luncheon where, in a room full of nominees By Lainey • Feb 23, 2023 12:36 pm
Award Season Campaigning Judd Apatow takes on Tom Cruise As Sarah noted yesterday in her coverage of the BAFTAs and the Directors Guild of America awards, Everything Everywhere All At Once was the DGA’s choice for Best Picture, honouring Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for their work on the film. Everything Everywhere All At Once leads at the By Lainey • Feb 21, 2023 10:14 am
Award Season Campaigning The big BAFTA weekend We are getting down to the wire in awards season, with the BAFTAs and the Directors’ Guild Awards occurring over the weekend. Because of their recent voting changes, the BAFTAs aren’t as central to the Oscar race as they used to be; for instance, despite both giving excellent performances, By Sarah • Feb 20, 2023 11:06 am
Quiveration Austin Butler Handles the Heat Austin Butler has been at the Santa Barbara Film Festival the last few days, participating in panel events and interviews, as one of the recipients of the Virtuosos Award, recognising the best performances of the last year. This has been the major Oscar campaign stop this week, as several Oscar By Lainey • Feb 17, 2023 12:02 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for February 17, 2023 Dear Gossips, After her surprise Oscar nomination for Best Actress, Andrea Riseborough has kept a low profile, skipping out on the Oscar nominees luncheon earlier this week, and the London Critics Circle Film Awards last week. She has a built-in excuse, as she is working on The Palace, an upcoming By Sarah • Feb 17, 2023 09:01 am
Award Season Campaigning Hollywood’s Great Cate Here’s what I’ve observed about how people in Hollywood perceive Cate Blanchett over the last 17 years I’ve spent working as an entertainment reporter. I’ll always remember Mark Ruffalo walking out of a junket suite at TIFF jokingly exclaiming to an entire hallway of journalists that By Lainey • Feb 14, 2023 12:04 pm
Award Season Campaigning Tom Cruise’s Hollywood Homecoming It’s an Oscar tradition: the Nominees Luncheon, where the nominees gather to congratulate each other and ostensibly put a pause on their campaign activities (as if) and take a class photo. But even in a room full of stars, one star seemed to be the star that everyone wanted By Lainey • Feb 14, 2023 10:54 am
Assy Style Andrea Riseborough did not go The awkwardly named London Critics Circle Film Awards occurred yesterday, definitely the less embarrassing awards given out on February 5, a day that shall live in infamy. It was mostly British-Irish people in attendance, with a few notable exceptions, because it mostly honors British-Irish film, but Michelle Yeoh was there, By Sarah • Feb 06, 2023 03:00 pm
Award Season Campaigning Campaigning for Grownups The Oscar nominations have been announced. So Oscar campaigning is now in its most intense stretch, especially with so many tight races across the board, including Best Picture. One of the big campaign stops that brought out several contenders this weekend was the AARP Movies for Grownup Awards. AARP used By Lainey • Jan 30, 2023 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Riseborough Affair Can we have ONE Oscar season without controversy? Just ONE! I am asking so little! I just want pageantry and glamor, dammit, and I keep having to talk about slaps and voting rules! This year’s fresh hell is the surprise Best Actress nomination of British actor Andrea Riseborough for By Sarah • Jan 30, 2023 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Oscar nominations: Who’s out? Like Lainey said in the intro, Tom Cruise is headed to the Oscars…as a producer. While Top Gun: Maverick earned six nominations, including Best Picture, Cruise was left out of the Best Actor noms, in favor of Aftersun’s Paul Mescal, who, like Andrea Riseborough, started a late charge By Sarah • Jan 24, 2023 12:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Oscar nominations: Who’s in? It is finally Oscar nomination morning, so we are officially 50% of the way through awards season (the Oscars aren’t until MARCH). The nominations this morning are largely as expected, featuring a lot of movies we’ve been talking about for months now. Everything Everywhere All At Once leads By Sarah • Jan 24, 2023 12:18 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 24, 2023 Dear Gossips, My colleagues at etalk are probably super annoyed with me today because they have to deal with my gloat. Months and months ago, at the meeting table, I told them that Top Gun: Maverick would be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. And, well, it happened. TG: By Lainey • Jan 24, 2023 09:45 am
Award Season Campaigning The BAFTAs set the tone The BAFTA nominations were announced yesterday, with All Quiet on the Western Front earning a record-tying fourteen nominations. This is one of my top 10 for 2022, but also, it’s the film I tipped for a tight race in Best Cinematography, and its impressive BAFTA haul is likely a By Sarah • Jan 20, 2023 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Critics Cast Their Votes The Critics’ Choice Awards came and went last night with more of a whimper than a bang—it was a boring show and I say this as someone who gets to vote for those awards—but it is also the last big moment before Oscar nominations close on Tuesday. So, By Sarah • Jan 16, 2023 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The SAG Awards look like an Oscar preview We are in the thick of awards season, coming off the mid-week Golden Globes and diving right into the SAG Awards nominations, which were announced yesterday morning, and voting for Oscar nominations starts tomorrow. The importance of the SAG Awards during awards season is debatable—some people will insist they’ By Sarah • Jan 12, 2023 10:10 am
