TV Updates Michelle Yeoh: The Queen of the Weekend May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada and Asian American and Pacific Islander Month in the United States. In observance of the occasion, The Asian American Foundation held its inaugural awards dinner this weekend in New York where Michelle Yeoh was honoured with the Culture Award… for obvious reasons. It’ By Lainey • May 08, 2023 10:49 am
Met Gala 2023 The Met Gala Oscar Club They are all Oscar winners, and they were all at the Met Gala last night. Viola Davis, Jessica Chastain, Michelle Yeoh, and Nicole Kidman all stepped out, and they all looked amazing. Viola wore a hot pink be-plumed Valentino, which I like by virtue of being my favorite color. Also, By Sarah • May 02, 2023 11:25 am
Top Reads Michelle and Halle: History and History You know what Sarah wrote earlier about Angela Bassett wanting the Oscar and being disappointed about not winning the Oscar? And not hiding the fact that she was disappointed, which is her right? Well Michelle Yeoh wanted it too and she wasn’t hiding it either. Moments before the Best By Lainey • Mar 13, 2023 03:01 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for March 9, 2023 Dear Gossips, With Oscar week upon us, it’s time once again for The Hollywood Reporter’s “brutally honest Oscar ballot”. This year, a member of the short films and animated features branch shared his thoughts on the nominees with Scott Feinberg. In the past, these anonymous ballots have gotten By Sarah • Mar 09, 2023 09:14 am
Top Reads Michelle and Cate in a dead heat Just as Ke Huy Quan made history at the SAG Awards, so did Michelle Yeoh. Like Quan, she’s the first Asian to win in her category, in this case, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. And like Quan, she gave a wonderful, emotional speech, and By Sarah • Feb 27, 2023 10:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Your Best Picture frontrunner is… After the SAG Awards last night, Everything Everywhere All At Once is officially the Best Picture frontrunner. Sure, Top Gun: Maverick won the stunt ensemble award, but EEAAO won four awards, taking three of the four individual acting awards for motion pictures, including Ke Huy Quan for Outstanding Performance by By Sarah • Feb 27, 2023 10:05 am
Award Season Campaigning Hollywood’s Great Cate Here’s what I’ve observed about how people in Hollywood perceive Cate Blanchett over the last 17 years I’ve spent working as an entertainment reporter. I’ll always remember Mark Ruffalo walking out of a junket suite at TIFF jokingly exclaiming to an entire hallway of journalists that By Lainey • Feb 14, 2023 12:04 pm
Assy Style Andrea Riseborough did not go The awkwardly named London Critics Circle Film Awards occurred yesterday, definitely the less embarrassing awards given out on February 5, a day that shall live in infamy. It was mostly British-Irish people in attendance, with a few notable exceptions, because it mostly honors British-Irish film, but Michelle Yeoh was there, By Sarah • Feb 06, 2023 03:00 pm
Equality Issues Intro for January 25, 2023 Dear Gossips, I’ve been watching the Oscars since I was a child. It was the year of Best Picture Kramer vs Kramer, the film about divorce. My ma had just left my dad a couple of years before and he, like Dustin Hoffman, was figuring out how to do By Lainey • Jan 25, 2023 10:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Critics Cast Their Votes The Critics’ Choice Awards came and went last night with more of a whimper than a bang—it was a boring show and I say this as someone who gets to vote for those awards—but it is also the last big moment before Oscar nominations close on Tuesday. So, By Sarah • Jan 16, 2023 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The SAG Awards look like an Oscar preview We are in the thick of awards season, coming off the mid-week Golden Globes and diving right into the SAG Awards nominations, which were announced yesterday morning, and voting for Oscar nominations starts tomorrow. The importance of the SAG Awards during awards season is debatable—some people will insist they’ By Sarah • Jan 12, 2023 10:10 am
Golden Globes 2023 The EEAAO All Stars Everything Everywhere All At Once had a good night at the Golden Globes, with both Ke Huy Quan and Michelle Yeoh winning, for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actress in a Comedy, respectively. For Quan, it’s a continuation of the feel-good film story of the year, his triumphant return By Sarah • Jan 11, 2023 12:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Top 10 Films of 2022 If the year 2022 in film can be defined by one word, it would be “most”. This was the year of the most in film, when blockbusters came roaring back, and a lot of filmmakers threw everything they had at the screen in a cinematic excess that reminds us the By Sarah • Jan 09, 2023 02:08 pm
Award Season Campaigning Everyone was in Palm Springs yesterday The Palm Springs International Film Awards were last night as part of the Palm Springs Film Festival. We’re getting into the thick of awards season now, and with most of the categories either wide open or in a three-way split, everyone who is remotely a contender was out in By Sarah • Jan 06, 2023 10:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The CCAs have what the Oscars want The nominations for the 2023 Critics’ Choice Awards were announced yesterday, and the coverage was overall more robust than what we saw earlier in the week for the Golden Globes. The Critics’ Choice Association is actively trying to snake the Globes’ place as THE pre-Oscar awards show, and so far, By Sarah • Dec 15, 2022 02:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Actresses Show Up To Campaign Unlike the Best Actor category which I posted about earlier, the Best Actress category for Oscar this year is much more competitive. We have our frontrunners, no doubt, but there are several other women with legitimate claims to the few remaining spots. And it’s looking like it’s a By Lainey • Nov 21, 2022 01:41 pm
