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
Assy 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
Relationship Assumption More love updates: Timothee and Lily One of the main themes of the site yesterday was the romance update: Robert Pattinson and Suki Waterhouse, the Beckhams, Gemma Chan and Dominic Cooper, and also Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn. All fine. Also fine – Timothee Chalamet and Lily-Rose Depp. They were seen out for lunch in New York By Lainey • Dec 12, 2018 11:44 am
Award Season Campaigning First Man’s Oscar paradox From its first trailer, First Man looked like a surefire Oscar front runner. Damien Chazelle, Ryan Gosling, period piece, Great Man biopic—it appeals to several Oscar fetishes. But the box office for First Man has been lackluster, stalling out just below its break-even point. And with that lack of By Sarah • Dec 11, 2018 10:30 am
Award Season Campaigning ScarJo works for Black Panther Black Panther is the first Marvel movie with a real shot at a major Oscar nomination. As such, Disney is backing an actual, proper award campaign for the movie and key craftspeople involved, particularly Ruth Carter, the costume designer. I attended an event with Ruth Carter a couple months ago By Sarah • Dec 10, 2018 02:09 pm
BFFs Dolly & Jen in black leather Dolly Parton’s song from Dumplin’, "Girl in the Movies", was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Original Song this morning. Dolly’s on her way. Her goal, as she’s made explicitly clear, has been to get nominations, in particular an Oscar nomination. The Globes aren’ By Lainey • Dec 06, 2018 03:21 pm
Award Season Campaigning A mixed bag of filmmaker inclusion It’s been a great year for black American cinema, as evidenced by the Golden Globes nominations which include Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, and If Beale Street Could Talk for Best Picture. (Sorry to Bother You is too weird for award shows, but let us not forget it is one of By Sarah • Dec 06, 2018 02:31 pm
