Award Season Campaigning Icons at the Governors Awards As Lainey mentioned in the open today, the 15th annual Governors Awards were held last night, and if you’re wondering didn’t we just do this back in January, yes, we did. The 14th annual ceremony was bumped because of last year’s labor strikes, so like the Emmys, By Sarah • Nov 18, 2024 11:33 am
Style Intro for November 18, 2024 Dear Gossips, We are officially in the back half of November which… how did that even happen?! This year has felt at once interminable and also like a blitz. But the fact is, it’s almost December which means there are really only four weeks of campaigning left before people By Lainey • Nov 18, 2024 09:23 am
Gorgessity Angelina’s Classic Lip Angelina Jolie was in New York last night after another screening and Q&A for Maria ahead of its limited theatrical release in two weeks before streaming on Netflix starting December 11. Sarah texted me after she saw it a couple of days ago. It was an all-caps message By Lainey • Nov 13, 2024 11:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Demi is outside, too All week, Oscar contenders have been outside, promoting their movies, and now it’s Demi Moore’s turn. She’s in France promoting The Substance alongside filmmaker Coralie Fargeat. Though The Substance premiered at Cannes earlier this year, it is only just now opening in Fargeat’s home country. The By Sarah • Nov 06, 2024 01:09 pm
Award Season Campaigning Angelina hustles While the Best Actor contenders may be taking a more casual approach to awards season, the Best Actress contenders stay hustling. Over the weekend, Angelina Jolie attended a screening and Q&A for Maria hosted by the Academy in Beverly Hills. She was greeted warmly by the crowd: © sonyaruben By Sarah • Nov 05, 2024 01:40 pm
Award Season Campaigning Best Actors on tour Over on The Squawk, Lainey is handicapping next week’s Sexiest Man Alive announcement, and both Daniel Craig and Paul Mescal appear on the list, so subscribe to The Squawk if you haven’t already and get in on the odds making. Speaking of Paul Mescal and Daniel Craig, though, By Sarah • Nov 05, 2024 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pamela Anderson is campaigning My biggest question mark for awards season this year is how seriously will the Oscar establishment take Pamela Anderson in The Last Showgirl? They SHOULD take her very seriously, because her performance is terrific. It’s so good that were it anyone else in the role, I have no doubt By Sarah • Nov 04, 2024 01:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Gotham Awards have some overlap Awards season has officially kicked off with the nominations for the 2024 Gotham Awards, which is the first major stop on the trophy trail (the ceremony is on December 2), though the Gothams are rather hit or miss when it comes to overlap with the Oscars. They’re not the By Sarah • Oct 30, 2024 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina Jolie: Movie Star Mayhem I was going to post about Angelina Jolie yesterday but I ran out of time. She was at the premiere of Maria at AFI Fest and showed up with curly hair, just like it was styled in her recent editorial for CR Fashion Book. The texture is actually a little By Lainey • Oct 29, 2024 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo campaigns on two fronts Jennifer Lopez was busy this weekend promoting Unstoppable. The film had its world premiere at TIFF about six weeks ago and there were back-to-back screenings this weekend at the DGA and AFI Fest. Her outfit at AFI Fest surprised me. This is not what I would have predicted. I mean, By Lainey • Oct 28, 2024 10:38 am
Award Season Campaigning Kristen Stewart: Supporting and Campaigning It’s been a minute since we’ve seen Kristen Stewart pop up in the gossip cycle, right? Maybe since the press tour in the first quarter of the year for Love Lies Bleeding? She spent the summer in Latvia working on her directorial feature debut, adapting Lidia Yuknavitch’s By Lainey • Oct 25, 2024 12:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina is showing up The teaser trailer for Pablo Larraín’s Maria promised Angelina Jolie emoting, and the official trailer is now doing a really good job selling Angelina’s performance as Maria Callas in a true career-defining role. The trailer is all about Angelina as Maria, she looks impossibly gorgeous and fragile and By Sarah • Oct 25, 2024 10:30 am
TV Updates Nicole and Zoe: Lionesses contending together A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about Nicole Kidman that was titled “Nicole Kidman doesn’t stop” and in that post I included a tweet that made me laugh. As I wrote at the time, “some people were offended by it but I understand the spirit because it By Lainey • Oct 24, 2024 10:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews You Will Be Entertained A box office battle is happening exactly a month from now, on November 22, 2024: Gladiator II vs Wicked Part 1. These two movies are coming out on the same day… and I feel like there’s not much conversation about it. Which is weird, I guess, because it’s By Lainey • Oct 22, 2024 11:26 am
Award Season Campaigning Angelina campaigns in London Angelina Jolie is currently one of the frontrunners for a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Maria. She was not at the Academy Museum Gala this weekend but that doesn’t mean she wasn’t campaigning. Because campaigning doesn’t just happen in Hollywood. Angelina was at the London By Lainey • Oct 21, 2024 12:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy and Zendaya: Longshots A few months ago, when it was announced that Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch would premiere at TIFF, the list of Best Actress Oscar hopefuls expanded to include the film’s star, Amy Adams. Amy’s been nominated multiple times already, some consider her “overdue”, and she’s always reliably solid By Lainey • Oct 17, 2024 11:54 am
