Award Season Campaigning Intro for August 16, 2022 Dear Gossips, She’s Dr Michelle Yeoh now. On Saturday Michelle received an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts by the American Film Institute presented to her by The Daniels, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who directed her in Everything Everywhere All At Once, considered by almost everyone to be one By Lainey • Aug 16, 2022 09:38 am
TV Updates Quinta’s New Deal Final round voting for the Emmys began on Friday and will run until August 22. Quinta Brunson and Abbott Elementary got a big boost this weekend, winning four awards at the Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards including Best Comedy. These awards are too new to be considered a good predictor By Lainey • Aug 15, 2022 01:45 pm
TV Updates Lee Jung-jae: Squid Game, Emmys, and TIFF Voting for the Emmys begins next Friday, August 12 for ten days, concluding on August 22. Everyone is angling now to get their messaging out before TV Academy members make their choices. In the Outstanding Drama category, Succession is the presumed favourite, but I don’t think anyone wants to By Lainey • Aug 03, 2022 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zendaya and Tom go for lunch A sighting of the Twitter’s favourite couple – here are Zendaya and Tom Holland who went out for lunch yesterday in New York with her brother. And now everyone’s relating it to her mishap in the kitchen last week when she posted photos of herself getting stitches: Zendaya shares By Lainey • Jul 21, 2022 11:21 am
TV Updates Zendaya’s TIME Vintage Earlier this week Zendaya and Andrew Garfield fangirled and fanboyed each other for Variety’s Actors on Actors series. You can imagine how the internet reacted, given how popular they each are individually and then when you add the success of Spider-Man: No Way Home on top of that, and By Lainey • Jun 09, 2022 11:21 am
TV Updates Bridgerton: The Ton goes for the Emmy Yvette Nicole Brown hosted Netflix’s FYSEE event for Bridgerton yesterday with cast members Charithra Chandran, Nicola Coughlan, and the breakout star of season two, Simone Ashley. Emmy nomination voting begins in a month and campaigning is well underway for consideration. Netflix is hoping that Bridgerton can be part of By Lainey • May 17, 2022 11:25 am
Style Euphoria: Six for Six As we’ve been mentioning the last few weeks, it’s Emmy campaign season and last night was Euphoria’s turn to make a case for nominations in the drama category for its second season – which was uneven, for sure, compared to the first season, but it’s also been By Lainey • Apr 21, 2022 12:47 pm
Award Season Campaigning Amanda Seyfried in the lead? Like Maria, I haven’t yet started The Dropout, starring Amanda Seyfried as Elizabeth Holmes. Mostly because I’m still catching up on so many other shows – like the other tech scammer show that’s on right now: WeCrashed, with Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto. And the thing with that By Lainey • Apr 13, 2022 12:59 pm
TV Updates Selena, Steve, and Martin: Murders in Contention I know… I KNOW. We just got done with the Oscars and a tiresome award season that ended in the most exhaustingly controversial way. And now I’m hitting you up with more awards speculation and I’m sorry. But that’s what the focus is pivoting to now in By Lainey • Apr 11, 2022 12:06 pm
Assy Style Jessica Chastain and the red carpet skip The Oscars are happening in less than a week. The high points of the Oscars are always the bookends – the beginning, which is the red carpet during arrivals, and the end, which is when Best Picture is typically presented. It’s the in between that show producers and the Academy By Lainey • Mar 21, 2022 12:41 pm
Award Season Campaigning Brace for a CODA upset Last week, the Oscar race got a shakeup after Sian Heder’s CODA snatched Best Adapted Screenplay from presumptive favorite The Power of the Dog at the BAFTAs. Dog triumphed that weekend, though, winning top honors at the BAFTAs and the Critics’ Choice Awards, clinging to its place atop the By Sarah • Mar 21, 2022 11:10 am
Award Season Campaigning Andrew Garfield and the Oscar secrets For a couple of weeks now we’ve been talking about Oscar nominees and how, typically, it’s more fun to be a nominee who isn’t a frontrunner because there’s no pressure, you can just enjoy the ride. There are exceptions, of course, as we’ve been seeing By Lainey • Mar 17, 2022 01:53 pm
Top Reads Lady Gaga: A Speech for all the Awards Lady Gaga was named the New York Film Critics Circle Best Actress back in December for her performance as Patrizia Reggiani in House of Gucci. She’s also been nominated for almost everything else from the SAGs to the BAFTAs and more…but not the Oscar. Many consider this to By Lainey • Mar 17, 2022 01:29 pm
Award Season Campaigning Will Smith’s pre-Oscar speeches… “and Bradley Cooper” Sarah wrote the other day after his win at the Critics Choice Awards that Will Smith seems unstoppable at this point, just a day before Oscar voting begins. Will has the SAG, the BAFTA, the Critics Choice, the Golden Globe, and last night he attended the National Board of Review By Lainey • Mar 16, 2022 02:04 pm
Award Season Campaigning Kristen Stewart makes one last pitch on Kimmel Final voting for the Oscars opens tomorrow, and Kristen Stewart is pushing for the finish line, keeping up her pace of appearing everywhere with a stop at Jimmy Kimmel Live. She wore a fabulous sparkly blue jumpsuit that looks GREAT on camera, and was generally lively and fun and confident, By Sarah • Mar 16, 2022 09:35 am
Top Reads Will Smith continues his streak Will Smith clocked two more wins this weekend, picking up Best Actor trophies at the BAFTAs and the Critics’ Choice Awards (full disclosure: I am a voting member of the CCA). He seems fairly unstoppable at this point, that “it’s his time” energy coalescing right as final balloting for By Sarah • Mar 14, 2022 11:48 am
