Award Season Campaigning Everyone was in Palm Springs yesterday The Palm Springs International Film Awards were last night as part of the Palm Springs Film Festival. We’re getting into the thick of awards season now, and with most of the categories either wide open or in a three-way split, everyone who is remotely a contender was out in By Sarah • Jan 06, 2023 10:03 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Ke and Keke win together The New York Film Critics Circle announced their winners list a few weeks ago but the award ceremony happened last night with several recipients in attendance, including the most awarded actor of the season so far: Ke Huy Quan, named Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Everything Everywhere All By Lainey • Jan 05, 2023 01:56 pm
Xenu Smut Where is Tom Cruise’s Best Friend? 2022 was a good year for Tom Cruise, professionally. One of his best years in a long time. Top Gun: Maverick was the biggest movie of the year, and by now we all know the story behind it – that Tom insisted on holding the picture through the pandemic because he By Lainey • Jan 03, 2023 10:48 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 3, 2023 Dear Gossips, Happy New Year! New year, new gossip…and also the same gossip. After all, Leonardo DiCaprio is still hanging out with under-25 year old models. We’ll get to that soon. For now, let’s focus on the Golden Globe Awards because they’re happening exactly a week By Lainey • Jan 03, 2023 08:58 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for December 22, 2022 Dear Gossips, For Ke Huy Quan, the end of 2022 has been a win, literally. He’s been winning a lot of awards. He won the Gotham Awards a few weeks ago; the New York Film Critics Circle named him Best Supporting Actor; and of course he’s considered a By Lainey • Dec 22, 2022 08:27 am
Amazingness Tom Cruise: Rides and Dives Yesterday I posted about Tom Cruise jumping out of an airplane and falling through the sky while delivering a thank you and happy holidays message and promoting Top Gun: Maverick on streaming and on its Oscar campaign. Today I’m back, because he’s back, and instead of jumping out By Lainey • Dec 20, 2022 12:06 pm
TV Updates Austin Butler on SNL: Silly, Sweet, and Sincere As I wrote last week re: Austin Butler hosting SNL, the timing couldn’t be better for him. Austin is in contention for a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his performance in Elvis. He is the youngest candidate in the field which is why they’ve been strategic about how By Lainey • Dec 19, 2022 12:56 pm
Amazingness Happy Holidays from Tom Cruise Tom Cruise is ABSURD. Tom Cruise is always, absurdly, Tom Cruise. So what else did we expect a holiday message from him to look like? It is exactly what you would expect – because Tom Cruise is consistently and dependably absurd. Which is why he’s sending us his holiday wishes By Lainey • Dec 19, 2022 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 16, 2022 Dear Gossips, Babylon, the last major entry into awards season before the holidays, premiered in Los Angeles last night. Everyone turned out, from headliners Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, and Diego Calva, to members of the massive ensemble including Jean Smart, Flea, comedian Rory Scovel, Li Jun Li, Tobey Maguire, Lukas By Sarah • Dec 16, 2022 09:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The CCAs have what the Oscars want The nominations for the 2023 Critics’ Choice Awards were announced yesterday, and the coverage was overall more robust than what we saw earlier in the week for the Golden Globes. The Critics’ Choice Association is actively trying to snake the Globes’ place as THE pre-Oscar awards show, and so far, By Sarah • Dec 15, 2022 02:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate and Glen talk about Tom Kate Hudson and Glen Powell are paired together for Variety’s Actors on Actors series this award season and one of the reasons is because they’ve known each other for a while as Glen worked with both Kate’s brothers, Oliver Hudson and Wyatt Russell, on previous projects. They’ By Lainey • Dec 14, 2022 12:39 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Golden Globes: Will low-key nominations mean low attendance? For many years, the Golden Globes were my favourite award show because it incorporated film and TV (I’m much more of a TV watcher than a moviegoer), it was always well-attended, and the celebrities would get tipsy. The whole thing was very unserious, particularly the way the categories are By Maria • Dec 13, 2022 01:46 pm
TV Updates The Golden Globes are back on their bullsh-t After all the hand-wringing about shortcomings, accountability, and whether or not publicists would even encourage their clients to go, it’s back to business as usual for the Golden Globes, or at least an attempt at returning to such. The nominations for the 2023 Golden Globes were announced this morning, By Sarah • Dec 12, 2022 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin and Elvis join the campaign Award season, we’re in it now, in the thick of it as everyone jockeys for position. Oscar nomination voting begins in exactly a month today, on January 12, and there are tight races across the board, which means everyone is out on the campaign trail. For Austin Butler and By Lainey • Dec 12, 2022 10:47 am
Xenu Smut Intro for December 9, 2022 Dear Gossips, As we move into the middle of December, the awards races are heating up. We’ve talked some about the various acting categories, but let’s turn now to the big kahuna—Best Picture. Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans is currently the frontrunner, but Top Gun: Maverick just By Sarah • Dec 09, 2022 09:11 am
Award Season Campaigning Sandler and Fraser on Actors on Actors Yesterday, we talked about Ke Huy Quan’s comeback this year, so now let’s talk about the other comeback in the room, Brendan Fraser. He appeared on Variety’s “Actors on Actors” with Adam Sandler, an old pal from the 1990s, when they made the comedy classic Airheads together. By Sarah • Dec 08, 2022 02:18 pm
