Award Season Campaigning Awkwafina in Fourth and Fifth Lulu Wang’s The Farewell premiered at Sundance to outstanding reviews and already, back then, people were talking Oscar potential. The film was released in July and remains one of the most critically acclaimed movies of the year with strong specialty box office performance to back it up. And through By Lainey • Nov 19, 2019 04:16 pm
BFFs Oscar “Bobby” and all his friends As mentioned a few times recently, Robert Pattinson is a possibility for an Oscar nomination for his performance in The Lighthouse and he’s been campaigning. Robert was at the Academy Governors Awards a few weeks ago, he’s attended pre-awards Hollywood Foreign Press Association events, and he was By Lainey • Nov 19, 2019 11:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Renee Z through the years Over the last couple of weeks, it’s been Charlize Theron in the spotlight, campaigning for Best Actress Oscar for her work in Bombshell as Megyn Kelly. There is another frontrunner, however, who is also an Oscar winner – that would be Renee Zellweger and I’m curious as to how By Lainey • Nov 13, 2019 03:35 pm
Award Season Campaigning JLo and Bobby Sarah and I wrote about Variety’s Actors on Actors series yesterday - she posted about Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans interviewing each other and I posted about Brad Pitt and Adam Sandler. Neither one was all that exciting, and neither had the randomness that makes these features interesting. Jennifer Lopez By Lainey • Nov 13, 2019 03:03 pm
BFFs The Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson Buddy Circle The working title of this piece was “Evans and ScarJo circle jerk”; I cleaned up the headline because I am a PROFESSIONAL. But make no mistake, any interview format that involves actors interviewing each other is a circle jerk, and the Variety “Actors on Actors” series is no different. It’ By Sarah • Nov 12, 2019 02:34 pm
Award Season Campaigning Brad and Adam, the actors Variety’s Actors on Actors series is hit and miss for me. And it all depends on the actors. Sarah’s got Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans coming up next and there’s some intrigue and insight there because of the Avengers connection and for me, I’m always curious By Lainey • Nov 12, 2019 02:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 12, 2019 Dear Gossips, IndieWire reported late on Friday that Universal told the New York Film Critics that Cats wouldn’t be ready for review until mid-December. The NY Film Critics vote on their best films of the year on December 4 which means that, if this is indeed true, Cats By Lainey • Nov 12, 2019 08:45 am
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 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 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 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 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 By Lainey • Oct 23, 2019 11:25 am
