TV Updates Intro for May 28, 2025 Dear Gossips, On Monday in this space, I posted about the Emmys and how even though it was Memorial Day, Hollywood would be busy this week and next before nominations voting for the Emmys begins on June 12. Like clockwork, here are Stephen Graham, Owen Cooper, Ashley Walters, and Erin By Lainey • May 28, 2025 09:22 am
TV Updates Walton Goggins: Beef and Bulge I wrote a couple of weeks ago about Walton Goggins, the Celebrity - he’s been a working and successful actor for decades, but this year he became a Celebrity because of The White Lotus season three. And up to this point he kinda seems to be enjoying it in that By Lainey • Apr 24, 2025 11:49 am
Award Season Campaigning The Nominees Dinner The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – aka the Oscar Academy – typically hosts an Oscar Nominees Luncheon every year to celebrate everyone a few weeks before the big night. This is where they also remind potential winners about keeping their speeches tight and right and gently ask them not By Lainey • Feb 26, 2025 12:30 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Youngest and the Youngest: We Have a Race! Coming into the SAG Awards, we thought that the most competitive acting race left would be Best Actress, between Demi Moore and Mikey Madison. We’ll get to that in another post, but we’re focusing on the lead actors here because Adrien Brody has won almost everything. Still, remember, By Lainey • Feb 24, 2025 10:16 am
Style Wicked in Japan Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, and Jon M Chu were in Japan yesterday to promote Wicked. The movie opens there on March 7 and this was the last possible week that they could have travelled there because of course it’s been non-stop and now they pretty much have to By Lainey • Feb 21, 2025 10:53 am
Relationship Assumption Timmy & Kylie: The New Beckhams As Sarah just wrote in her post about the BAFTAs today, Oscar voting ends today and that’s why Timothée Chalamet’s 60 Minutes interview aired two days ago, on Sunday. This is one of the very few times Timmy has done anything on this Oscar campaign to appeal to By Lainey • Feb 18, 2025 10:35 am
Award Season Campaigning The BAFTAs had pope fever The BAFTAs were on Sunday, and because of the topsy-turvy awards season we’re having, they happened while both SAG voting AND Oscar voting is underway. The Brits came down with a case of pope fever, with Conclave taking home four trophies, including Best Film and Outstanding British Film. By Sarah • Feb 18, 2025 09:50 am
Style Monica & Mikey before the sprint The BAFTAs are this weekend, the SAG Awards are next weekend, and the Oscars are the weekend after that. Thanks to wildfire-induced delays, awards season is an all-out sprint to the finish. To that end, everyone is outside, including nominees Mikey Madison and Monica Barbaro. Both are first- By Sarah • Feb 14, 2025 01:01 pm
Award Season Campaigning Timmy had to pee Let me just say, again, because I haven’t said it yet this week so it’s only been three days since you’ve read it from me, that I consider Timothée Chalamet’s current Oscar campaign-non-campaign as one of the best, if not the best, of all By Lainey • Feb 12, 2025 10:46 am
Award Season Campaigning Eight Virtuosos Monica Barbaro, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, Clarence Maclin, John Magaro, Mikey Madison, Sebastian Stan, and Fernanda Torres were the eight performers who received the Virtuoso Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival this weekend. Six out of the eight are Oscar nominees so it’s a good year at By Lainey • Feb 10, 2025 04:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Guilds are speaking Because of the Los Angeles wildfires, the awards season calendar is all screwed up. Hardly the most important thing, but a reality nonetheless. That means award shows are piling up on top of each other, and that the next three weeks are a sprint to the end of the trophy By Sarah • Feb 10, 2025 02:18 pm
Award Season Campaigning Kendrick and Timmy Bob do a duet Whoever came up with this idea… chef’s kiss. It’s genius marketing on multiple levels. First of all, we’re heading into Super Bowl weekend, the most watched broadcast in North America every year and Kendrick Lamar is the halftime headliner. Kendrick is always viral, so between him and By Lainey • Feb 07, 2025 12:14 pm
Award Season Campaigning Last night at AFI Last night, the American Film Institute honored their top ten films and TV series for 2024. You can see the full list of honorees here, but it’s pretty much an Oscar/Emmy hit list, with such titles as Anora, The Brutalist, Conclave, Emilia Pérez, and Wicked in the mix By Sarah • Feb 07, 2025 09:36 am
Award Season Campaigning Watching the Oscars With a Loudmouth You know that person who shows up at the Super Bowl party and despite not ever watching football, they have opinions on the refs and the first downs and the plays and they share those opinions while eating an embarrassing amount of spinach dip? That’s me with the Oscars By Maria • Feb 06, 2025 01:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Team Wicked is having all the fun I’m being petty here and I’m not sorry. Because remember when some of you were sick of the Wicked press tour and Wicked in general? Well. With all the chaos and the ugliness of this Oscar race, aren’t you f-cking glad we have Wicked now?!? Today By Lainey • Feb 06, 2025 12:55 pm
BFFs Billie campaigns for Ari As noted in today’s open, the Karla Sofía Gascón scandal has upended award season. Emilia Pérez is plummeting, Zoe Saldaña’s chances are in jeopardy, and other nominated films and actors are gaining momentum – that includes Ariana Grande. It was once thought that the nomination would be a win By Lainey • Feb 05, 2025 02:12 pm
