Award Season Campaigning The somewhat surprising SAG nominations As Lainey mentioned in her intro, the in-person announcement of the SAG Award nominations was cancelled due to the wildfires in Los Angeles. The nominations were instead announced by press release, and as Lainey predicted, Angelina Jolie was, indeed, left off the list of SAG nominees. Even more surprising than By Sarah • Jan 08, 2025 12:51 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 8, 2025 Dear Gossips, The Screen Actors Guild has cancelled their in-person nominations announcement today due to the fire situation in Los Angeles. A statement was released late last night – per Deadline: “In an abundance of caution for the safety of our presenters, guests, and staff, the live in-person 31st Annual SAG By Lainey • Jan 08, 2025 09:23 am
Award Season Campaigning Colman, Kieran, and friends Colman Domingo is currently one of the presumed five actors to receive a nomination for the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Sing Sing. Right now, according to prognosticators, there are four of them who seem pretty locked in: Adrien Brody, Ralph Fiennes, Timothée Chalamet, and Colman… with Daniel By Lainey • Dec 19, 2024 12:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina Jolie: in Stitches costume Angelina has been everywhere this fall promoting Maria and campaigning for an Oscar nomination. Now, though, she’s in Paris, spending the last few days before the holidays working on her next film – Alice Winocour’s Stitches. Maddox is there with her too as, reportedly, he’s the third AD By Lainey • Dec 18, 2024 11:17 am
TV Updates Toranaga and Hot Rabbi The Golden Globes first time nominees luncheon took place yesterday in LA and among the attendees, Hiroyuki Sanada for his performance as Toranaga-sama in Shōgun. He is the reigning Emmy Drama Actor winner, but since Shōgun was only released last February, the series has yet to contend at the Globes, By Lainey • Dec 18, 2024 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Selena Gomez: big week, doesn’t stop Last week was a big week for Selena Gomez, and we’ll come back to that in a minute, but first, here are some photos of her and Zoe Saldaña on the weekend continuing to promote Emilia Pérez. This, of course, came right after the news about her engagement so By Lainey • Dec 16, 2024 11:34 am
Amazingness Timmy-Bob is extra Bob It’s not that I’m ever not a fan of Timothée Chalamet. He checks all the boxes for me personally and professionally – so talented, so pretty, so perfectly of the celebrity moment, so good for gossip. We are better for Timmy Chalamet and anybody who tells you any different By Lainey • Dec 16, 2024 10:17 am
Award Season Campaigning The state of the race post-CCA nominations The Critics Choice Awards nominations were announced yesterday (I am a voting member of the CCA), giving a huge boost to the ongoing Oscar campaigns of Wicked and Conclave, which banked eleven nominations each. Dune: Part II, a lower key presence in awards season so far, got ten nominations, tied By Sarah • Dec 13, 2024 12:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nobody puts Babygirl in a corner The Christmas day theatrical calendar is crammed with films squeezing in an Oscar-qualifying run before December 31, including Halina Reijn’s Babygirl. I’ll have a full review next week, but in short, it’s a holiday rom-com for the horny and deranged. Promotion for the film is kicking into By Sarah • Dec 13, 2024 09:55 am
Award Season Campaigning Ladies Who Lunch At the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, that is. The Academy Women’s Luncheon was yesterday, held at the Academy’s own museum in Los Angeles—the Academy WILL make that museum worth it if it kills them! Which it might!—and as has been the case all of this By Sarah • Dec 11, 2024 10:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 11, 2024 Dear Gossips, On the heels of the Critics Choice Awards kinda-sorta accidentally excluding Last Week Tonight from the talk show category, we have another awards show “controversy”, this time involving Dune: Part II and the Golden Globes. The “controversy” is that Dune 2 was not nominated for the Cinematic and By Sarah • Dec 11, 2024 09:43 am
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Demi’s party week Another Best Actress contender maintaining momentum this week is Demi Moore, who started her week with a belated birthday bash, then got nominated for a Golden Globe, and then stepped out, with her dog, Pilaf, at the SFFILM Awards Night in San Francisco, where she was honored with the Maria By Sarah • Dec 10, 2024 10:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina in Paris Fresh off her Golden Globes nomination for Best Actress/Drama, Angelina Jolie is back at work in Paris on a new film called Stitches. It’s from French actor and filmmaker Alice Winocour, who is best known for the films Disorder, Proxima, and Revoir Paris. Stitches is about an American By Sarah • Dec 10, 2024 09:31 am
Award Season Campaigning The farcical Golden Globes Awards season is in full swing with the Golden Globes nominations just announced, but before we dive into these nominations, there are two points of order to address. Point the first – why are we still doing this? The Golden Globes and their voting body, once called the Hollywood Foreign Press By Sarah • Dec 09, 2024 10:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 9, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Golden Globe nominations are coming later today – we’ll post about that later. The Oscar race continued to take shape yesterday with the announcement of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association winners of the year, further boosting the Oscar nomination chances of Anora, Mikey Madison, and Marianne By Lainey • Dec 09, 2024 09:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina Jolie on a talk show The reason that’s the title of this post is because that’s what the news is: “Angelina Jolie on a talk show” isn’t something we see that often. In fact, it’s rare. Like over 15 years rare – that’s how long it’s been since she’s By Lainey • Dec 06, 2024 10:50 am
