Oscars 2017 Brie Larson's Casey face Casey Affleck Best Actor over Denzel Washington. Or do you prefer Jezebel's headline "F-cking Creep Wins Oscar"? For the last 13 years, the actor who wins the SAG goes on to win the Oscar. Denzel took the SAG. And Casey broke the trend, killed the streak. By Lainey • Feb 27, 2017 12:26 pm
Award Season Campaigning Denzel and Casey’s winning weekends Casey Affleck won the BAFTA for Best Actor in a Leading Role last night. Denzel Washington, however, was not nominated. And the last time they went head-to-head, at the SAGs, it was Denzel who pulled off the surprise. Which suddenly changed our assumption of what the Best Actor Oscar race By Lainey • Feb 13, 2017 07:24 am
SAG Awards 2017 Denzel up, Casey down It was supposed to be a foregone conclusion: Casey Affleck, Best Actor Oscar. Until it wasn’t. The Screen Actors Guild honoured Denzel Washington’s performance in Fences instead. And it was an upset. He might be Denzel Washington, a legend in the business, but Casey had basically taken every By Lainey • Jan 30, 2017 10:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance 2017: 10 To Watch Last year, two of the biggest films coming out of Sundance were Manchester by the Sea and Birth of a Nation. Both bagged huge distribution deals at the festival, and both were early tips for Oscar hopefuls. Manchester has stayed in it all year, and is sure to be a By Sarah • Jan 18, 2017 09:47 am
Hook Ups Rooney & Joaquin See? Gossip is comin’ at us from all over the place this year. Page Six reported that Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix, who worked together on Her and, most recently, Mary Magdalene (he plays Jesus), “found love on the set”. They were shooting in the desert, away from the city, By Lainey • Jan 11, 2017 03:31 pm
Boy Sh-t Golden Globes Boy Sh-t Gossip is fueled by girl sh-t and boy sh-t. It’s the best sh-t. This is my favourite story to come out of the Golden Globes. This story has everything: pettiness, ego, manners, beards, and dramatic exits. And it involves multiple celebrities. According to PEOPLE: Despite his three daughters sharing By Lainey • Jan 10, 2017 12:03 pm
Golden Globes 2017 Brie Larson: Golden Globes Integrity I don’t like Brie Larson’s snoozy column dress. I also didn’t like her makeup. I actually find she has kind of a funny face in that it’s a bit anonymous. She can disappear all of a sudden and almost be unrecognizable. Probably a great skill for By Duana • Jan 09, 2017 02:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Casey Affleck’s week of winning Casey Affleck started the week, and 2017, at the Palm Springs Film Festival where he received the Achievement Award. On Tuesday he was in New York to accept the Best Actor Award from the New York Film Critics Circle where he read aloud some of the worst reviews of his By Lainey • Jan 05, 2017 11:35 am
Casey Affleck Intro for December 22, 2016 Dear Gossips, At this point, it’s looking like Casey Affleck, alleged sexual harasser, will win the Oscar for Best Actor for his terrific performance in Manchester By The Sea. It’s not necessarily that he shouldn’t. But, as Duana and I discussed on the Show Your Work podcast By Lainey • Dec 22, 2016 09:49 am
Casey Affleck Casey Affleck is A-Okay on SNL Did you watch SNL over the weekend? If so, you saw some awesome performances by Chance the Rapper. It was the last episode of 2016, and Chance came to shut that sh*t down, crushing his live performances and featuring in one of the night’s best sketches, “Jingle Barack” By Sarah • Dec 19, 2016 12:15 pm
Siblings Morning Ben Ben Affleck was in New York last night for the premiere of Live By Night. Then he had to be up early this morning for The Today Show and an interview with Matt Lauer. I don’t think Ben’s able to handle those late nights as well as he By Lainey • Dec 14, 2016 12:30 pm
Mel Gibson Intro for December 13, 2016 Dear Gossips, “I am one tough mother-¬f---er and you can’t bother me anymore. You ask anybody what their number one fear is and it’s public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale and that’s what I’ve been through. It changes you and makes you one By Lainey • Dec 13, 2016 09:34 am
Show Your Work Podcast Working Class? Casey Affleck, Taraji P Henson, and the making of Oprah Jeff Bezos, the head of Amazon, and Matt Damon hosted a holiday party for Manchester By The Sea this weekend in LA. That’s officially what they’re calling it, a “holiday party”, which, I guess is a new euphemism for “campaign event”? It’s not like they’re actually By Lainey • Dec 05, 2016 03:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Weightlifting: The Actors Roundtable Last week it was the Actresses Roundtable. This week The Hollywood Reporter is featuring the Actors. I briefly mentioned this yesterday in the post about what Andrew Garfield said about Emma Stone. Now that I’ve read through the whole piece and watched all the videos… well…I’m not By Lainey • Dec 02, 2016 11:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Casey Affleck is fine Critical status update report—Casey Affleck, actor and Oscar hopeful, continues to be absolutely, totally, 100% okay despite serious allegations of sexual harassment. The latest pit stop on the Casey Affleck Is Doing Just Fine Tour is the National Board of Review, where he won Best Actor for his performance By Sarah • Nov 30, 2016 12:06 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for November 28, 2016 Dear Gossips, They aired a feature on Casey Affleck yesterday morning on CBS Sunday Morning. He was interviewed by Tracy Smith and takes her on a walk through Fenway Park, discussing his childhood in Boston, how he enrolled at Columbia University only to return to Hollywood, and how he sees By Lainey • Nov 28, 2016 08:06 am
