Award Season Campaigning Intro for December 5, 2017 Dear Gossips, If you haven’t already, listen to the Angelina Jolie interview on Scott Feinberg’s Awards Chatter podcast that was just posted yesterday. It’s almost an hour of her talking through her career, sounding more relaxed and casual than she does when we see her on panels By Lainey • Dec 05, 2017 08:39 am
Books Intro for December 1, 2017 Dear Gossips, The NY Film Critics Circle announced their selections for the best of 2017 yesterday. And guess who just stomped into the awards race? TIFFANY HADDISH! Tiffany was named Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Girls Trip even though the NYFCC was big on Lady Bird. Lady Bird By Lainey • Dec 01, 2017 08:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Greta & Saoirse get closer Earlier this week, it was confirmed that Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut, set the record for best reviews at Rotten Tomatoes. Saoirse Ronan is the star of the film. Saoirse won Best Actress at the Gotham Awards which moves her into very strong position for an Oscar nomination By Lainey • Nov 29, 2017 09:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Pattinson’s nominations Robert Pattinson and some friends were photographed sightseeing at the Acropolis in Greece yesterday. I’ve never been to Greece. I so badly want to eat my way through Greece. The reason we’ve yet to go to Greece is because I feel like I would need more than a By Lainey • Nov 22, 2017 11:26 am
Dumbass Get Out challenges award season Should we care about award season when Hollywood’s predator infestation is so far from being exterminated? Is award season trivial? Sure, parts of it. But there are some storylines that are playing out this award season that deserve our attention. Consider Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut and By Lainey • Nov 17, 2017 12:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Feeling CMBYN I FINALLY saw Call Me By Your Name, and Lainey would like me to get “all up in my feelings” about it, but I don’t have Kathleen’s gift for emotive expression. I do really like it, kind of love it, actually, and you will certainly feel many things By Sarah • Nov 16, 2017 11:17 am
Award Season Campaigning Getting ready for the Golden Globes The Hollywood Foreign Press Association celebrated 75 years of the Golden Globes last night. As mentioned earlier, the Golden Globe nominations will be announced on December 11. Many of the contenders attended the event last night, continuing to work the award season circuit. I’ve mentioned a few times now By Lainey • Nov 16, 2017 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mary J. Blige, an appreciation I won’t pretend that this post is anything other than an expression of admiration and excitement for Mary J. Blige. So, if you don’t want to read me glowing up Mary J for too many words, turn back now. It has been a little over a year since By Kathleen • Nov 16, 2017 09:06 am
Douchebags JT’s Oscar suck-up The best thing about the Oscars last year was that Justin Timberlake did not win one. He tried though. He was nominated for Best Song for the Worst Song of 2016, Can’t Stop The Feeling, from the movie Trolls. What JT really wants though, as we know, is to By Lainey • Nov 13, 2017 12:38 pm
Award Season Campaigning Angelina dances with Agnes and talks to Jake Angelina Jolie attended the Academy’s Governors Awards on Saturday to present an Honorary Oscar to Agnes Varda. This isn’t the first time this season that she’s stepped out to support Agnes. Last month she attended the premiere of Agnes’s documentary Faces Places. So there’s an By Lainey • Nov 13, 2017 11:59 am
BFFs Emma, Jen, and Andrew As mentioned earlier, the Governors Awards happened on Saturday. These are not the Oscars but it’s an Academy event, and Oscar voters are present, so it’s a critical campaign stop. Almost everyone shows up. Almost. We’ll get to that later but first… Oscar-winning friends, Emma Stone and By Lainey • Nov 13, 2017 11:15 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina Jolie’s cookies The Hollywood Reporter posted a story yesterday about Angelina Jolie bringing cookies to Vivienne’s martial arts class: The Oscar winner surprised parents at Shaolin American Self Defense Academy when she showed up with daughter Vivienne Jolie Pitt, 9, and Day of the Dead-decorated cookies from Porto's Bakery By Lainey • Nov 10, 2017 09:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer & Margot: one hairstyle, two campaigns Did you see mother!? The movie with the dumbest punctuation of the year? It was meant to be Darren Aronofsky’s big deep artistic mindf-ck. Whatever. I thought it was a film student’s first film. And I found all the conversations around it, about how profound it all was, By Lainey • Nov 06, 2017 03:34 pm
Style Angelina’s campaign weekend Angelina Jolie made two stops on the Oscar campaign trail this weekend – she and Loung Ung attended the Deadline Contenders event on Saturday and they accepted the Hollywood Foreign Language Film Award at the Hollywood Film Awards last night. As mentioned several times over the last few weeks, First They By Lainey • Nov 06, 2017 10:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 6, 2017 Dear Gossips, Oscar campaigning is officially underway as there were several events this weekend in Hollywood, featuring many expected award season contenders trying to build as much awareness around their projects and performances before the holiday break. We are now just 5 weeks away from the Hollywood Foreign Press announcing By Lainey • Nov 06, 2017 08:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina’s two screenings Angelina Jolie and Loung Ung stepped out together yesterday to screen First They Killed My Father at the Girls Academic Leadership Academy in LA and then last night at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. The film has been generally warmly received by critics and also very well By Lainey • Oct 27, 2017 11:34 am
