Award Season Campaigning Bradley Cooper plays defence Last Friday, Sean Penn decided to grace us once again with his genius prose, writing a piece for Deadline about how his friend Bradley Cooper has a problem because he’s made the best film of the year and one of the greatest films of all time (according to Sean) By Lainey • Feb 13, 2019 11:07 am
Award Season Campaigning The BAFTA Favourite Roma and The Favourite have the most Oscar nominations (10) this year. And, since it’s the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, The Favourite was always expected to do well at the BAFTAs. Roma took Best Picture, maintaining its position as the frontrunner with two weeks now to By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 07:50 am
Award Season Campaigning Richard E Grant: Oscar’s newest fanboy Award season’s best fanboy is a role typically occupied by Timothee Chalamet – at least it was last year and for part of this year. And it’s not even an official “role” since we only made it up for Timmy. Still. There was a vacancy, since Timmy is not By Lainey • Feb 08, 2019 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley was embarrassed Bradley Cooper was in New York yesterday, continuing to campaign for Oscar for A Star is Born, and sat with Oprah for an interview. The quote making headlines today is about the “snub”. I’m putting that in quotes because… well… let’s get to what he said first. Of By Lainey • Feb 06, 2019 11:34 am
Style Lady Gaga, the nominee As people say about the Oscars Nominees luncheon, everyone is a winner. There are no losers (yet). Here’s Lady Gaga, the Oscar nominee, at the event yesterday in Louis Vuitton. We’ll come back to the fashion in a minute. This is about the experience, about the fact that By Lainey • Feb 05, 2019 12:14 pm
Style Award season Spike The Oscar nominees’ luncheon happened yesterday in LA. It was a full day of campaign stops as The Hollywood Reporter also hosted an event and the AARP held their annual Movies for Grownups Awards. Spike Lee made the rounds. And it reminds me of a question he was asked on By Lainey • Feb 05, 2019 10:58 am
Music Coop & Gaga lose and win The Directors Guild Awards happened this weekend. Bradley Cooper was nominated for Best Director and Best First Time Director and lost both to Alfonso Cuaron and Bo Burnham respectively. I’m not sure it was a surprise that he didn’t win the first, especially after the Academy didn’t By Lainey • Feb 04, 2019 10:42 am
Coincidence or conspiracy Gaga & Bradley: the screen test Even though the Oscar nominations were announced last week, actual voting for the Oscars doesn’t begin until February 12. The voting period starts two days after the BAFTAs and the Grammys. It lasts a week and ends the Tuesday before the Oscars. Which means there’s still a lot By Lainey • Feb 01, 2019 11:19 am
Music Gaga & Bradley Cooper go “Shallow” in Vegas Bradley Cooper was at Lady Gaga’s show in Las Vegas on Saturday night. She invited him on stage to sing “Shallow” with her. Naturally it went viral. If you haven’t seen it yet, here are two angles. I prefer the second angle because… Well… We all know Gaga By Lainey • Jan 28, 2019 12:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Melissa McCarthy’s Ironic Oscar Nom Maybe the title above isn’t fair. Melissa McCarthy got an Oscar Best Actress nomination for playing Lee Israel, an irascible crank in her 50s who pulled off an incredible scam, and Can You Ever Forgive Me is completely worth your time. The nomination is completely deserved and also kind By Duana • Jan 22, 2019 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Regina King and the Beale Street 3 All of us who write on this site have written repeatedly about how much we love If Beale Street Could Talk. It’s so … much. This is a film that will hold up, there will never be a time, in 10 years, 20 years, 100 years, when it won’t By Lainey • Jan 22, 2019 12:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Star is… Spiked? Or is it Argo-ed? There are always snubs on Oscar nomination day. Some snubs are bigger than others. Because they’re so unexpected. This year’s #1 Oscar snub is Bradley Cooper for Best Director. And yet, it was not a bad morning for A Star is Born. ASIB earned 8 nominations, including Best By Lainey • Jan 22, 2019 12:04 pm
Award Season Campaigning Bradley Cooper: scruff’s coming in Roma won Best Picture and Best Director last night at the Critics’ Choice Awards but that doesn’t mean it’s the Oscar favourite. The Critics do not speak for the Oscars when it comes to Netflix. And the Oscars have a complicated relationship with Netflix. What will be interesting By Lainey • Jan 14, 2019 02:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews When Regina King Talks That was my poor attempt at a play on If Beale Street Could Talk, but seriously, no one talks like Regina King. In an award season that refuses to give us a break from insufferable, worse-than-Hathaway twee speeches from Lady Gaga (I like Gaga but can she DO LESS please? By Kathleen • Jan 14, 2019 01:42 pm
Bad Style Blunt-Krasinki Inc at Critics’ Choice Emily Blunt and John Krasinski arrived together to the Critics’ Choice Awards last night but sat apart – she was with the Mary Poppins Returns table and he was seated with the A Quiet Place team. And then she joined the A Quiet Place team onstage for their win in the By Lainey • Jan 14, 2019 11:42 am
Maple Leaf Crazy Rich Asians is The Favourite Lainey and I watched The Critic’s Choice Awards together over text. Sometimes she was ahead and sometimes I was, depending on bathroom breaks, dog walk breaks, etc. When Crazy Rich Asians won Best Comedy, Lainey texted me about a minute before I heard the reveal with an “Omgggggggg!!! Kathleenn! By Kathleen • Jan 14, 2019 09:53 am
