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
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo gets emotional Jennifer Lopez was all over New York yesterday because Hustlers. Who’s a better ambassador for the film than JLo? As I mentioned the other the day, Hustlers is receiving strong reviews and she’s been getting the strongest reviews. David Sims wrote at The Atlantic yesterday that she is By Lainey • Sep 12, 2019 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Sandler & Antonio Banderas can (and should) challenge Joaquin Phoenix Before the start of Adam Sandler's Uncut Gems at its big TIFF premiere on Monday, somebody shouted out "Oscar for the Sandman!" People laughed nervously and clapped, because they did not know what they were in for from the uncomfortably tense and dark dramedy about a By Joanna • Sep 11, 2019 11:01 am
BFFs Bradley Cooper’s side-part shows up for Joaquin Phoenix Bradley Cooper was not on the list of expected attendees at last night’s TIFF premiere of Joker, which just won the Golden Lion in Venice and is now an Oscar contender in several categories, including Best Actor for Joaquin Phoenix. There are many layers to this Bradley Cooper relationship By Lainey • Sep 10, 2019 03:46 pm
Photo Assumption Joaquin’s Joker Oscar? Following the Joker world premiere at the Venice Film Festival over the weekend, Joaquin Phoenix is now officially a contender for Best Actor Oscar. Up to this point, which is early, but not as early as you think considering the Oscars are at the beginning of February in 2020 which By Lainey • Sep 04, 2019 09:58 am
TV Updates Julia Louis-Dreyfus: “all about trophies” Emmy voting officially ended late last night, and in less than a month, we’ll know for sure if Julia Louis-Dreyfus will break the record she shares with Cloris Leachman and become the most-decorated performer in Emmy history. GoldDerby has her as a done deal to win in her category, By Joanna • Aug 30, 2019 09:59 am
