TV Updates The Oscars: Five Updates for the Five Day Countdown The Oscars are happening on Sunday, finally. With five days to go, updates are happening one on top of another. The biggest one being that Karla Sofía Gascón will be there, with the support of Netflix. If for whatever reason you need a refresher about the Karla chaos, please go By Lainey • Feb 25, 2025 12:13 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 Intro for February 5, 2025 Dear Gossips, As Sarah wrote yesterday in her post about the Karla Sofía Gascón mess, the situation has had repercussions all over the award season calendar – and is definitely shifting momentum in the Oscar race overall. Netflix is reshaping the Emilia Pérez Oscar campaign, minimising Karla’s presence as much By Lainey • Feb 05, 2025 09:15 am
Equality Issues Karla Chaos Last week, I wrote about Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón and her increasingly off-the-rails, weirdly defiant apology tour for (not so) old racist, xenophobic, homophobic tweets that resurfaced in the wake of her Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Gascón is the first out transgender actor to be nominated for By Sarah • Feb 04, 2025 11:33 am
Karla Sofía Gascón Intro for January 30, 2025 Dear Gossips, Yesterday I mentioned media training and a perceived bias against it, probably because people assume it makes a celebrity “less authentic” when really all it does is make them “more prepared”. (Prepared does not mean inauthentic, ask any type A overachiever.) Well, we have another instance in which By Sarah • Jan 30, 2025 09:26 am
