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
Award Season Campaigning Intro for November 26, 2025 Dear Gossips, The Mnet Asia Music Awards, aka the MAMA Awards, are happening this Friday and Saturday November 28 and 29 in Hong Kong. This event is considered the Grammys of K-pop and since Kpop Demon Hunters was one of the biggest movies of the year, worldwide, there will be By Lainey • Nov 26, 2025 10:08 am
BFFs MBJ gets emotional Sarah started the site off today with a post about Timothée Chalamet and how he’s been cracking us up with his Marty Supreme…fruitionising, LOL. As I mentioned on Monday, Timmy hasn’t been making the rounds on the usual Oscar campaign stops, focusing instead on the hilarious marketing By Lainey • Nov 21, 2025 02:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hugh and Kate in Blue Song Sung Blue, starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson, comes out on Christmas Day, hoping to hit the “feel-good movie” spot for those heading to the multiplex during the holidays. It’s also targeting the adult/boomer crowd who don’t give a sh-t about Avatar. Josh Safdie’s Marty By Lainey • Nov 20, 2025 03:04 pm
Style The Women at the party It’s parties every night right now in Hollywood as we get closer to the end of the year and as award season heats up. Last night was the ELLE Women in Hollywood event and as I wrote last week when the cover stars were revealed, it’s great to By Lainey • Nov 18, 2025 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 18, 2025 Dear Gossips, Chloe Zhao was out for the second night in a row on Monday. She was at the Governors Awards on Sunday along with almost every other Oscar contender this season and last night attended the ELLE Women in Hollywood event. Chloe won Best Director in 2021, she is By Lainey • Nov 18, 2025 09:51 am
Style Intro for November 17, 2025 Dear Gossips, The Oscar Governors Awards happened last night and as mentioned several times last week in anticipation of the event, the gala celebrates the honorary Oscar recipients of the year (Dolly Parton, Debbie Allen, Wynn Thomas, and Tom Cruise are the class of 2025) but is also a major By Lainey • Nov 17, 2025 09:31 am
Style Elle Fanning: Campaign Outfits of the Week As mentioned at the start of the week, Elle Fanning is on a roll. And it hasn’t just been this week – but this week was big, with Predator: Badlands topping the box office and Sentimental Value doing really well in limited release as an Oscar contender. Joachim Trier’s By Lainey • Nov 14, 2025 11:53 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for November 13, 2025 Dear Gossips, Dolly Parton covers the new issue of PEOPLE Magazine, just revealed yesterday. It’s great to see her, always, but especially now since she’s had some health issues recently, and then her sister went rogue and scared everyone into thinking it was worse than it was. Not By Lainey • Nov 13, 2025 09:00 am
