Award Season Campaigning Glenn and Gaga: it’s a tie There were two ties at the Critics’ Choice Awards last night: Amy Adams and Patricia Arquette for Best Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television and Glenn Close and Lady Gaga for Best Actress. The Critics also have a category for Best Actress in a Comedy – Olivia By Lainey • Jan 14, 2019 09:19 am
Award Season Campaigning Lupita and MBJ’s flirty squats As Joanna just posted in her article about Emily Blunt previous to this one, there’s been a lot of Oscar campaigning happening in New York this week. Bradley Cooper’s screening A Star is Born for voters during nomination week and last night Lupita Nyong’o and Michael B By Lainey • Jan 11, 2019 12:25 pm
BFFs Ryan and Blake’s perfect timing for Emily Blunt Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively hosted a special screening of Mary Poppins Returns in New York last night, fêting Emily Blunt and director Rob Marshall. The photos are sweet: lots of hugging, schmoozing, and big smiles. And they couldn’t have had better timing. See photos from tonight’s special By Joanna • Jan 11, 2019 11:29 am
Award Season Campaigning Spike in, Bradley in…and in The Directors Guild of America announced their nominees today and Spike Lee is on the list – his FIRST ever DGA nomination. Which...probably isn’t a surprise considering Spike has never been nominated for Best Director at the Oscars and many of the members of the DGA are also members By Lainey • Jan 08, 2019 04:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ethan Hawke moonwalks Ethan Hawke was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards last night to collect his award for Best Actor for his performance in First Reformed. He was also on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote the revival of Sam Shepard’s True West opening soon on Broadway By Lainey • Jan 08, 2019 01:08 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Intro for January 8, 2019 Dear Gossips, As an award season junkie, I’m still not over how wide open this Oscar race is and how the Golden Globes shook up the situation – which probably makes the Hollywood Foreign Press Association very happy. They love that they’re actually a factor this year. Especially since By Lainey • Jan 08, 2019 09:16 am
Style “It just feels good being Regina King” Last year Regina King did an interview with Variety and she was asked what it means to her, in this stage of her career, her 30 year career, to be getting the parts she’s getting, the nominations, the awards, the hype, and the SHINE. I loved her response: “It’ By Lainey • Jan 04, 2019 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Time for Spike? Spike Lee received the Career Achievement Award in Palm Springs last night, presented to him by “the Stallworth Brothers”, John David Washington and Adam Driver. We’ll be seeing a lot of these three in the next couple of weeks. But…will we see them at the Oscars? BlackkKlansman is By Lainey • Jan 04, 2019 11:05 am
BFFs Rami’s dress rehearsal? Forgive me, but don’t stop Bohemian Rhapsody now. The movie’s made over $714 million worldwide as of this writing, and Rami Malek is the face of not just the film, but the campaign. And when he accepted the Breakthrough Performance Award last night in Palm Springs, his speech By Joanna • Jan 04, 2019 10:40 am
BFFs Timothee Chalamet: fanboy in Palm Springs Last year at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Timothee Chalamet received the Rising Star Award for his work in Call Me By Your Name. This year he returned to Palm Springs for the Spotlight Award, recognising his performance in Beautiful Boy. He was introduced to the stage by Laura By Lainey • Jan 04, 2019 10:04 am
Award Season Campaigning Bradley Cooper’s first honour Of 2019, I mean. Tonight Bradley Cooper will receive the director of the year award to kick off the Palm Springs International Film Festival. It’s a big event on the award season calendar because there are a lot of Academy voters who live in Palm Springs (a lot of By Lainey • Jan 03, 2019 11:36 am
Quiveration MBJ for Coach pre-Globes Coach announced in September that Michael B Jordan would be their first men’s global ambassador. Yesterday they released his first campaign images. Per Coach’s press release, “the campaign was shot by Craig McDean and features Jordan dressed in the house’s reimagined iconic American silhouettes alongside the season’ By Lainey • Jan 03, 2019 11:01 am
Award Season Campaigning Oprah for Black Panther As we’ve seen over the last few weeks, many of Hollywood’s biggest names have been rallying around their friends in the Oscar race. It happens every year – celebrities campaigning for each other, hosting screenings and dinners, posing for photos, making sure Academy members know who’s the most By Lainey • Dec 18, 2018 01:01 pm
BFFs A Quiet Place (and Team Blunt) cranks up the volume Chris Pratt hosted a special screening of A Quiet Place in LA on Wednesday with John Krasinski. It’s not like their friendship is a secret; they’re super bro-y on Instagram and support each other’s charity efforts. Plus, Chris was so taken with A Quiet Place that back By Joanna • Dec 14, 2018 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 13, 2018 Dear Gossips, As you may have heard, the Screen Actors Guild award nominations kicked off all kinds of talk and frustration about snubs and category fraud yesterday. There are actors and films that have been recognized and awarded for weeks that the guild ignored. There is also a film that By Lainey • Dec 13, 2018 09:31 am
Bad Style Bradley Cooper’s road to the Oscars I’m still laughing about Jezebel’s Thirsty 30 from the other day. Bradley Cooper was ranked #22 and while that’s not super high on the list, the fact that he’s been included is what’s funny because, of course, as we’ve seen, Bradley’s fronting like By Lainey • Dec 12, 2018 01:39 pm
