Award Season Campaigning Oscar’s hipster cousin had a party The Film Independent Spirit Awards, the Oscars’ hipster cousin, had their annual party over the weekend, and while they don’t have much to do with the Oscars, a couple nominees continued to build momentum as we prepare for final Oscar voting to open next week. One, Troy Kotsur won By Sarah • Mar 07, 2022 02:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews KStew’s big weekend It was a big weekend for Best Actress nominee Kristen Stewart. First, she accepted the American Riviera Award, given for “outstanding achievement in film” at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, one of those fetes that is a highlight of awards season. She wore a sheer Chanel dress that reminds me By Sarah • Mar 07, 2022 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen, Andrew, and all the F-cks We’re in the timeline of award shows, award shows all around us. Last night at the Hollywood Critics Association Awards, Kristen Stewart was named Best Actress for her work in Spencer and Andrew Garfield won Best Actor for his performance in tick, tick…BOOM! Kristen and Andrew are also By Lainey • Mar 01, 2022 01:53 pm
Award Season Campaigning It’s Benedict’s time, or is it? Oscar nominee Andrew Garfield has been out and about this week, and now it’s Benedict Cumberbatch’s turn to remind everyone he is one of the frontrunners in the Best Actor race. Here is Barbecue Curlyfries at a screening of The Power of the Dog in London, along with By Sarah • Feb 25, 2022 10:19 am
Hair Andrew Garfield out and about Can I just say that I am very much enjoying Andrew Garfield this awards season? It’s his second time around as a Best Actor nominee (following his 2017 nomination for Hacksaw Ridge), and he seems to understand he’s not a frontrunner, so all the pressure is off and By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Penelope Cruz’s Quiet Campaign The Screen Actors Guild Awards are happening on Sunday. It’ll be the first award show that I’ve watched in a long time. And for the SAG Awards, they’re rarely in this position because, in a typical pre-COVID year, they come after the Golden Globes and the Critics By Lainey • Feb 22, 2022 11:53 am
Oscars 2022 Intro for February 18, 2022 Dear Gossips, Remember when the Academy wanted to do a “popular Oscar” to acknowledge the blockbuster films they’re pretty terrible at recognizing, and everyone was like, Ew, no thanks? Well, guess what? They’ve come up with something even more stupid! Instead of letting the Academy vote on a By Sarah • Feb 18, 2022 09:12 am
Top Reads The 2022 Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue Every year around this time, just before the Oscars, Vanity Fair unveils its annual Hollywood Issue and it can often be controversial for who is featured, who isn’t featured, who’s featured on the front and who lands on the folds, and that conversation can say more about Hollywood By Lainey • Feb 17, 2022 10:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for February 10, 2022 Dear Gossips, On Tuesday Will Smith received his third and fourth Oscar nominations for his performance in King Richard and for being one of the producers. On Wednesday he was promoting the new Fresh Prince reboot series BEL-AIR. Will, Jada, and Jaden were at the premiere last night. It’s By Lainey • Feb 10, 2022 09:12 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for February 9, 2022 Dear Gossips, Beyoncé was nominated for an Oscar yesterday for the first time. Her song “Be Alive” is contending in the Best Original Song category alongside Billie Eilish and Finneas (“No Time To Die”), Lin-Manuel Miranda (“Dos Oruguitas” from Encanto), Van Morrison (“Down to Joy” from Belfast), and Diane Warren By Lainey • Feb 09, 2022 09:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper, Nominee As Sarah just wrote in the previous post about today’s Oscar nominations, Bradley Cooper did not make the cut in the Best Actor or Best Supporting Actor categories for his performances in Nightmare Alley and Licorice Pizza. It was his part in Licorice Pizza that was the highest possibly By Lainey • Feb 08, 2022 12:27 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Oscar nominations: No chaos Unlike the BAFTA nominations, which are pure chaos, the Oscar nominations this morning are much more in line with expectations. The Power of the Dog, an awards favorite since last fall, leads all nominations with twelve. Craft-friendly Dune follows with ten. West Side Story and Belfast follow with seven apiece. By Sarah • Feb 08, 2022 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Best Actress Nominations Sarah will be posting an overview of this morning’s Oscar nominations later but we’ll start with what’s trending: Lady Gaga. Because she was not nominated for her performance as Patrizia Reggiani in House of Gucci. This is considered a snub because Gaga has so far this award By Lainey • Feb 08, 2022 10:30 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for February 8, 2022 Dear Gossips, Oscar nominations are happening today – announced by Tracee Ellis Ross and Leslie Jordan, an inspired and adorable combination. This post was written before the livestream, and we’ll be covering the Academy’s final list later on. But as I wrote to Sarah yesterday, for some reason I’ By Lainey • Feb 08, 2022 08:46 am
Award Season Campaigning Andrew Garfield: Tennis and Costumes As Sarah wrote earlier today, it’s been one of the most unpredictable award seasons ever, because the usual metrics used by industry experts to predict how award season will look have been all over the place. No one could have predicted how the BAFTA nominations turned out which means By Lainey • Feb 04, 2022 12:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Notable BAFTA Snubs: KStew and Kidman We’ve discussed the chaotic nature of the BAFTA nominations this year, but now let’s talk about two specific snubs: Kristen Stewart and Nicole Kidman for Best Actress. They are two of the leading contenders for the Oscars, and have been all awards season, but they were excluded by By Sarah • Feb 04, 2022 11:38 am
