Award Season Campaigning Everyone is at the Chateau At various points in its near-hundred-year history, Los Angeles’s Chateau Marmont has been a hip celebrity hangout. It had one of its many revival periods in the 90s when the Gen Xers liked hanging out there—some loyalists, like Keanu Reeves, are still frequent visitors. But then it kind By Sarah • Jan 08, 2026 11:06 am
What Else The SAGs are Unsentimental The Screen Actors Guild Awards, formerly known as the SAGs, are now The Actor Awards although everyone I know who works in Hollywood and the entertainment industry in general, is still saying “SAGs”. I wonder how long it will take to catch on. Anyway, the nominations happened today, announced by By Lainey • Jan 07, 2026 04:22 pm
Award Season Campaigning Jennifer and Emma: Globes, chats, and Miss Piggy Who do you think is in Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone’s mom group chat? To be fair, theirs isn’t technically a mom group because they were friends well before they became mothers. But just as a comparison to the self-inflicted mom group scandal that Ashley Tisdale started, who By Lainey • Jan 07, 2026 01:32 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 7, 2026 Dear Gossips, Even though Timothée Chalamet was the Critics Choice for best actor the other night, prognosticators don’t seem convinced that he’s the favourite for the Oscar. As Sarah noted in her post about Timmy’s win, the Academy has been reluctant to award younger actors in this By Lainey • Jan 07, 2026 09:40 am
Award Season Campaigning The Pitt crew at the CCAs Let The Pitt’s reign begin, after winning multiple Emmys, including Outstanding Drama Series, The Pitt picked up more trophies at the Critics Choice Awards. Noah Wyle won Best Actor in a Drama Series, Katherine LaNasa won Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, and the show itself won Best By Sarah • Jan 05, 2026 12:44 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Critics Choice Awards set the tone Welcome back from the liminal space, everything is a nightmare, let’s talk about awards shows! The 31st annual Critics Choice Awards were held last night in Los Angeles, the first heavyweight awards show on the trophy trail. The big winners were Sinners and One Battle After Another, with The By Sarah • Jan 05, 2026 10:22 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 5, 2026 Dear Gossips, Happy New Year! This is our first official gossip post of 2026 but you may have noticed… we did what celebrities do during the break: we tweaked our face. And some other backend body parts. The swelling has mostly gone down, we think, but there may be some By Lainey • Jan 05, 2026 09:19 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for December 17, 2025 Dear Gossips, The Academy announced the shortlists for nominations in 12 categories yesterday, including for the inaugural casting Oscar. Of the ten films eligible to be nominated in the casting category, nine feature female casting directors, a great start for its debut. The two films that came out with the By Lainey • Dec 17, 2025 10:06 am
Award Season Campaigning Joel Edgerton is campaigning The post previous to this one was about the best actress Oscar race and Amanda Seyfried picking up momentum to secure the fifth spot for a nomination for her performance in The Testament of Ann Lee. Joel Edgerton is in a similar position because the best actor nomination list isn’ By Lainey • Dec 11, 2025 01:29 pm
Award Season Campaigning Amanda Seyfried is campaigning As Sarah and I have been saying for a few weeks now, the acting category nominations for Oscar are nowhere near locked. In the Best Actress race, yes, there are frontrunners, but in that final spot, maybe even the two remaining spots, it could go a number of different ways. By Lainey • Dec 11, 2025 12:42 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Golden Globes have a normal one Despite years of controversy, strange dealings, and shadiness, the Golden Globes live on and yes, I will always mention the controversy and shadiness because I still think this might all blow up in our faces someday and I will want my “I told you so” moment when it (probably) does. By Sarah • Dec 08, 2025 11:34 am
Award Season Campaigning Kristen Stewart’s voice Kristen Stewart’s feature directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, opens in limited theaters this weekend before expanding nationally in January. The film’s distributor, indie outfit The Forge, is also mounting a little-engine-that-could awards campaign for the film and Stewart. Serving both the film’s release and the trophy By Sarah • Dec 05, 2025 12:56 pm
Style The Actresses and the fashion houses at the Gothams As we saw with every other acting category, almost every actress in contention for the five best actress Oscar nominations was in attendance at the Gothams last night. Because it’s looking pretty competitive between several of them for what’s most likely the two final spots. Chase Infiniti, the By Lainey • Dec 02, 2025 02:26 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Gotham Awards set the tone The 35th Gotham Awards took place last night in New York. The Gothams are interesting, partly because they’re so early, they get to set the mood for the rest of awards season, but also partly because the voting body is split into two parts: nominating committees made up of By Sarah • Dec 02, 2025 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Three out of four Beatles Three out of the four actors who’ve been cast to play the Beatles in Sam Mendes's upcoming quad-biopic were at the British Independent Film awards last night in London. If you missed it, Sam is directing four separate films, each focusing on an individual Beatle; the plan By Lainey • Dec 01, 2025 02:03 pm
BFFs Leonardo DiCaprio: Thanksgiving…and Oscars? Leonardo DiCaprio was seen on Wednesday night, just before American Thanksgiving, out for dinner at Nobu Malibu with Vittoria Ceretti and his best friend Tobey Maguire, who brought along his son. It’s not known where they spent US Thanksgiving proper but I’m pretty sure that, wherever he was, By Lainey • Nov 28, 2025 01:25 pm
