Gorgessity Kristen Stewart Is So Good At Campaigning Kristen Stewart seems to think that her performance in Spencer will be the only time she contends for an Oscar. I don’t agree - but if this is her one shot at it, she’s definitely giving it her 8 Mile. (I feel like not enough people remember or By Lainey • Nov 04, 2021 01:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lady Gaga Gives Good Vogue Is it too early to declare, officially, that the celebrity profile is back?! Because in the last month, we’ve had multiple excellent celebrity profiles, two of them written by the same person, about two of the world’s biggest superstars, and another that included the now-iconic sentence, “I am By Lainey • Nov 03, 2021 09:40 am
Award Season Campaigning Kristen Stewart and Dylan Meyer are engaged Well this is a big get for Howard Stern. Spencer opens on Friday and Kristen Stewart stopped by his show this morning during this final leg of her promotional push – for the film; she’ll be on the Oscar circuit still for months to come. Kristen and Howard have a By Lainey • Nov 02, 2021 02:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart: Diana in Hollywood Here’s Kristen Stewart last night at the LA premiere of Spencer. The film opens next Friday and a solid box office would be great but at this point, given that the film has already screened at several film festivals and other industry events, even if it doesn’t perform By Lainey • Oct 27, 2021 12:58 pm
Top Reads Kiki is winning too As Sarah just wrote in the previous post, we are in a very competitive and seemingly, at this point, wide-open award season and the contenders are going for it. Kristen Stewart is going for it. Jessica Chastain has been going for it. And Kirsten Dunst too. Over the last few By Lainey • Oct 06, 2021 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tessa, Ruth, and Rebecca: Passing Fashion As Sarah wrote last month, Rebecca Hall’s feature directorial debut, Passing, could be one of the “outsider interrupters” of this award season. It’s a Netflix title, it will be released on October 29, and it’ll be interesting to see what kind of momentum it can generate in By Lainey • Oct 05, 2021 02:36 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Stars at the Academy Museum: A Pre-Oscar Fashion Show The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, aka the Oscar Academy, has been working on the Academy Museum for several years now. The Museum officially opens on September 30 and this weekend the opening gala was a star-studded event, with multiple Oscar winners in attendance, and members of the By Lainey • Sep 27, 2021 12:57 pm
Award Season Campaigning George Clooney and Bennifer: An Award Season Run? Ever since it was announced that George Clooney would be directing Ben Affleck in the film adaptation for The Tender Bar, I’ve been saying that this film will have awards potential. George and Ben have already won an Oscar together, Best Picture no less, for Argo. The screenplay for By Lainey • Sep 23, 2021 12:02 pm
Award Season Campaigning Del Toro, Coop, and Cate enter the race One of the big question marks of the 2021 awards season was Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley, a new adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham’s novel (there is also a 1947 film starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell) of the same name. Del Toro literally JUST finished the film, By Sarah • Sep 16, 2021 01:00 pm
Gorgessity Kristen Stewart Makes Her Case Going into Venice and the fall film season, Pablo Larraín’s Spencer, starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana, was on almost everyone’s list. It’s a triple threat situation: Princess Diana forever and ever will bring the intrigue and fascination; Pablo Larraín is an acclaimed filmmaker who brings the By Lainey • Sep 07, 2021 01:05 pm
Award Season Campaigning Regé-Jean Page’s carriage upgrade We are now six weeks away from the Emmy nominations and one of the big series contenders is Bridgerton. Bridgerton is one of two high profile drama series considerations for Netflix, alongside The Crown, so Regé-Jean Page’s Variety cover feature, which came out last week, was released just in By Lainey • Jun 01, 2021 10:32 am
Award Season Campaigning Riz and Sir Anthony Hopkins’ night before ‘Twas the night before Oscar voting closes… and Best Actor contenders Riz Ahmed and Sir Anthony Hopkins both flexed their last-minute campaign hustle on two separate late night talk shows. Sir Anthony Hopkins popped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert alongside his The Father director, Florian Zeller, while a By Joanna • Apr 20, 2021 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for April 15, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Oscars are exactly ten days away and today is the first voting day for Academy members. The voting window closes on Tuesday, April 20 and then, of course, we’ll know on Sunday, April 25 who the winners are. With this in mind, here’s the cover By Lainey • Apr 15, 2021 08:52 am
Style Carey Mulligan Goes For Oscar Carey Mulligan was nominated for an Oscar over a decade ago for her performance in An Education, still a movie I adore, like a beloved book. She was an underdog back then, as that the year Sandra Bullock won for The Blind Side, but she’s definitely not an underdog By Lainey • Apr 12, 2021 01:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Daniel and YJ win at the BAFTAs The BAFTAs are the final major pre-Oscar award show and can sometimes shape how the Oscars shake out; Oscar voting begins this week, so the BAFTAs certainly help a campaign. This award season has been wide open and unpredictable and the BAFTAs have definitely added to that. Sir Anthony Hopkins By Lainey • Apr 12, 2021 10:01 am
Child Stars Intro for March 10, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Directors Guild of America and the BAFTAs announced their nominations yesterday. Chloe Zhao, widely considered to be the frontrunner this season, and possibly a lock for Oscar, is now the first woman of colour to be nominated by the DGA. The name that really jumped out for By Lainey • Mar 10, 2021 09:08 am
