Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 14, 2021 Dear Gossips, Riz Ahmed was named Best Actor at the virtual Gotham Awards earlier this week for his performance in Sound of Metal, which Sarah called the “most unique film experience of 2020” in her review. Sound of Metal is currently streaming on Prime Video. Although the favourite in the By Lainey • Jan 14, 2021 09:03 am
Award Season Campaigning Zendaya Has Entered The Race One paragraph stood out to me in Nate Jones’s always informative and most recent Oscar Futures column for Vulture. This is the feature where Nate gauges momentum for Oscar contenders and, right now, with Pieces of a Woman streaming on Netflix, Vanessa Kirby, after being named Best Actress at By Lainey • Jan 11, 2021 03:29 pm
Award Season Campaigning Regina King’s potential Oscar year Regina King’s engaging, resonant historical biopic, One Night in Miami, is one of the early standouts of the Oscar race this year. It debuted at the Venice Film Festival, then played TIFF, kicking off a traditional Oscar campaign in a very non-traditional year (it will premiere on Christmas day By Sarah • Nov 20, 2020 12:41 pm
Music Harry Styles: “Golden” … for Grammys? Harry Styles have been waiting for the “Golden” video to drop for weeks now. Every few days or so it’s trending on Twitter because they think it’s coming, only to be disappointed that it didn’t. And now, finally, “Golden” is here. When I posted about the anticipation By Lainey • Oct 26, 2020 02:58 pm
Music Harry Styles: Grammys and “Golden”? Harry Styles was seen in LA last night and according the pap who took these photos, it was a “dinner date” with a “mystery girl”. I’m not quite sure who the “mystery girl” is because there are two women – one in red and the other in a white top By Lainey • Oct 07, 2020 02:22 pm
Music BTS 101 for Grammy Voters As mentioned yesterday, BTS covers the new issue of Variety, which is the Grammy preview issue – so it’s pretty clear the motivation. It’s not like they’ve been hiding it; for a long time RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook have been saying for a long By Lainey • Sep 30, 2020 01:16 pm
Music BTS Is Everywhere, Part 613 It’s only Tuesday and already there are so many BTS updates. This morning I got this on Twitter: Ok as baby army I was warned by @LaineyGossip about the full on comeback schedules that are announced but no one warned me about the constant surprises. UN here they come By Lainey • Sep 22, 2020 02:25 pm
Bad Style Taylor Swift: Hoping for an ACM Bump? A lot of today’s headlines about Taylor Swift following her performance at the ACM Awards last night was about how she did her own hair, makeup, and styling. We’ll come back to that in a minute. For now, let’s talk about why she was there – to perform By Lainey • Sep 17, 2020 04:20 pm
Style The Emmys of Zendaya Zendaya has been nominated for her first Emmy for her work in Euphoria and if you haven’t watched it yet, maybe it’s time to get caught up because if you care about the entertainment industry and its talent, Zendaya is going to be one the biggest stars in By Lainey • Aug 20, 2020 01:47 pm
Award Season Campaigning Issa Rae, Emmys, and Hollywood Domination Issa Rae may be the busiest woman in Hollywood, but she continues to take on projects that will open the doors for others. Her latest (gorgeous) magazine cover story has The Hollywood Reporter proclaiming she’s embracing her role as a trailblazer but Insecure, which she created and in which By Cody • Aug 20, 2020 01:09 pm
TV Updates Dr Aniston on the campaign The Emmys are happening a month tomorrow and voting begins on Friday for ten days, ending on August 31. You know what that means: for the next couple of weeks, nominees will be on the campaign, getting in front of as many voters as they can – and in a pandemic, By Lainey • Aug 19, 2020 11:30 am
TV Updates Dr Aniston on the campaign The Emmys are happening a month tomorrow and voting begins on Friday for ten days, ending on August 31. You know what that means: for the next couple of weeks, nominees will be on the campaign, getting in front of as many voters as they can – and in a pandemic, By Lainey • Aug 19, 2020 11:30 am
Award Season Campaigning Extreme Marvel Dad Energy The Emmys are proceeding on September 20, though no one is quite sure what the show will look like. Will it be virtual? Will it be nominees only? Is Jimmy Kimmel still hosting or will he be replaced? Many questions, no answers. What we do know is that the award By Sarah • Jun 26, 2020 11:41 am
Award Season Campaigning The Oscars blinked, too Following Warner Brothers’ decision to move Tenet back a couple weeks, the Academy has also decided to move, pushing the 2021 Oscar telecast back by two months, from February 28, 2021 to April 25, 2021. Eligibility for consideration has also been extended, with the exhibition window running until February 28, By Sarah • Jun 16, 2020 09:11 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for February 7, 2020 Dear Gossips, It’s Oscar weekend! The overwhelming favourite as we get closer to the show is 1917 but… there are still some people who think that there could be an upset. Keep this in mind as you fill in our annual contest ballot – you’re playing for a gorgeous By Lainey • Feb 07, 2020 08:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews This year’s honest Oscar ballot is a doozy The “brutally honest Oscar ballot” is an annual tradition, when The Hollywood Reporter gets anonymous Oscar voters to show their asses explain their vote process to us mere plebes. Sometimes, this peek behind the curtain is interesting, but mostly it’s just infuriating as often the honest voters expose the By Sarah • Feb 06, 2020 09:41 am
