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 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
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 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 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
Award Season Campaigning Amy & Regina do both Amy Adams received two acting Golden Globe nominations this morning, one for Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series and another for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for Vice. She’s now trending on Twitter. But don’t forget about Regina King. Regina has been nominated By Lainey • Dec 06, 2018 10:59 am
Award Season Campaigning Crazy Rich Golden Globes Crazy Rich Asians is going to the Golden Globes. It will not win any Golden Globes. But they’ll be at the party, at one of the most watched award shows, and the first major award show of the year, right after the New Year. This is visibility. And visibility By Lainey • Dec 06, 2018 10:03 am
Award Season Campaigning Actors saying things at a table Next stop on the Award Season Express, it’s The Hollywood Reporter’s actor roundtable, featuring Mahershala Ali, Viggo Mortensen, Timothee Chalamet, Chadwick Boseman, Hugh Jackman, and Richard E. Grant. This group actually makes me wonder how far in advance they book these things, because Hugh Jackman is a ??? at By Sarah • Dec 05, 2018 01:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Aniston gets personal for Dumplin’ As mentioned in the previous post about Dolly Parton, Dumplin’ will be released on Netflix on Friday and since the movie is produced by and stars Jennifer Aniston, with music from Dolly Parton, these two women are doing much of the promotional work, leveraging their profiles to make sure the By Lainey • Dec 03, 2018 01:02 pm
Amazingness Dolly on the campaign trail As I wrote a few weeks ago, Dolly Parton, in her words, is “politickin’” for Dumplin’ which premieres on Netflix on Friday and I’m going to watch the f-ck out of it all weekend. We should see Dolly and Jennifer Aniston on the carpet soon and those pictures By Lainey • Dec 03, 2018 12:14 pm
Award Season Campaigning Bradley Cooper: invisible front row Irina Shayk walked in the Versace show in New York last night. As mentioned in the previous post, there were a lot of celebrities in the front row, including Irina’s partner, Bradley Cooper. No photos of him at the event though, not that I’ve seen, not on the By Lainey • Dec 03, 2018 11:37 am
Award Season Campaigning A night for Bradley Cooper Bradley Cooper was honoured last night at the American Cinematheque Award dinner. He couldn’t skip this one. As I’ve mentioned, Bradley’s maintained a pretty low public profile the last couple of months, since the release of A Star is Born, despite it being Oscar campaign season and By Lainey • Nov 30, 2018 11:22 am
