Movie Reviews and Previews Can Charlize Pull Off A Double? We are about a month away from the Golden Globe nominations. The Globes don’t often align with the Oscars but they can set the tone for Oscar nominations a month later as the Globes happen during the Oscar nomination voting period. As we’ve been reporting, races look pretty By Lainey • Nov 06, 2019 12:44 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Hollywood Film Awards: Family, Friends, and Mentors The Hollywood Film Awards don’t really mean anything in that even though they happen during award season – and we are firmly in award season now – they don’t predict real awards. Winning a Hollywood Film Awards doesn’t increase your chances at an Oscar. Showing up at the Hollywood By Lainey • Nov 04, 2019 03:36 pm
Music Taylor Swift gossips …and is coming for Oscar Last Friday in the site open, I wrote about Cats and whether or not Entertainment Weekly and Oscar experts were sleeping on Cats as an Oscar contender. They’d just released a promo video featuring Taylor Swift, revealing that she’d co-written a song with Andrew Lloyd Webber for the By Lainey • Oct 29, 2019 12:34 pm
Award Season Campaigning Awkwafina, The Contender As mentioned, if an actor is in the race for the Oscars in the given year, chances are they’ll be at Academy’s Governors Awards – even Eddie Murphy showed up at one of the most critical stops on the campaign trail. So it’s here where we can get By Lainey • Oct 28, 2019 01:11 pm
BFFs Eddie and Jamie steal the show When you give Jamie Foxx a microphone at the Governors Awards, and let him know he has three to four minutes to adlib remarks while in a room with this year's Oscar contenders like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio and Scarlett Johansson, you have to know the hype-man is By Joanna • Oct 28, 2019 11:21 am
Style JLo’s first official campaign stop The Academy’s Governors Awards happened this weekend. On this night, every year, the Academy hands out its honorary Oscars. It’s the pre-Oscars. And it’s the first major event, the most important early event, on the award season calendar – because this is the ACADEMY. Golden Globes and SAG By Lainey • Oct 28, 2019 10:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 25, 2019 Dear Gossips, Entertainment Weekly published its early predictions for the 2020 Oscar nominations yesterday. It’s actually not early anymore to talk about the Oscar race. This is when the race starts taking shape. What’s really exciting to me is that, right now, EW thinks that Awkwafina will be By Lainey • Oct 25, 2019 08:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Saoirse, Florence, Laura, Timmy…and Brad! This week on Show Your Work, Duana and I talked about Greta Gerwig’s Little Women and whether or not it would become the definitive movie version of the book. We’ve been leaving room for Little Women in the Oscar race and last night it screened at SAG-AFTRA to By Lainey • Oct 24, 2019 04:44 pm
Quiveration Michael B Jordan: Baking and Campaigning Michael B Jordan, Jamie Foxx, and Bryan Stevenson cover the new issue of Variety to promote the upcoming film Just Mercy based on Bryan’s work with the Equal Justice Initiative, a non-profit based in Alabama that “challenges poverty and racial injustice, advocates for equal treatment in the criminal justice By Lainey • Oct 23, 2019 11:25 am
Award Season Campaigning Taron Egerton and Elton John won’t let you forget about Rocketman It wouldn’t be awards season without a big splash, and who’s splashier than Elton John?! Following the release of his juicy memoir Me this week, he’s putting the spotlight not just on his life story on the page, but on the screen too. Last night, he and By Joanna • Oct 18, 2019 12:13 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for October 3, 2019 Dear Gossips, You know what award season is good for? Contrasts. People are campaigning, everyone has their own campaign strategy. So from October to the Oscars, we get to see these plans play out, side by side, in real time – an off-screen performance that supports the onscreen performance. Joker is By Lainey • Oct 03, 2019 09:19 am
Coincidence or conspiracy Joaquin Phoenix covers Vanity Fair That title in and of itself is newsworthy considering who we’re talking about: Joaquin Phoenix, one of the most press-averse actors in the business, willingly participating in an interview with Vanity Fair that covers his work life, his love life, his family life, including mentions of his late brother, By Lainey • Oct 02, 2019 12:03 pm
Music Intro for September 27, 2019 Dear Gossips, We're back up! Sorry about today - took us until now to sort out the site glitches. All set now. Thanks for your patience. Content is coming in a hurry! Being the birthday whore narcissist that I am, anytime it’s my birthday and there’s By Lainey • Sep 27, 2019 01:14 pm
Dumbass Joaquin Phoenix isn’t prepared Joaquin Phoenix is currently one of the frontrunners for Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Joker. We have seen him seemingly becoming more comfortable promoting the film and, perhaps, his campaign. I can’t imagine the studio would mind. It’s likely they’ll be putting resources into Joker’ By Lainey • Sep 24, 2019 03:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt says he won’t campaign for Oscar Look at all these Brad Pitt interviews! Yesterday it was the cover of GQ. Last night he walked the carpet at the DC screening of Ad Astra and talked to Entertainment Tonight about going to Kanye West’s Sunday service. And he’s talking to Entertainment Weekly about the film, By Lainey • Sep 17, 2019 11:37 am
Award Season Campaigning Brad Pitt’s charm offensive Well sh-t. When’s the last time you saw Brad Pitt on a talk show? Not doing a bit like the weather or a bit with Colbert when they’re looking up at a fake sky or yodeling with Jimmy Fallon or walking across Jimmy Kimmel’s stage for a By Lainey • Sep 13, 2019 10:34 am
