Equality Issues The Final Slap After moving up their meeting regarding Will Smith slapping Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars which feels like 14 years ago, the Academy leadership (“leadership”) has taken the step of banning Smith, who has already resigned his membership from the Academy, from the Oscars and all Academy events for By Sarah • Apr 11, 2022 09:37 am
Oscars 2022 Intro for April 8, 2022 Dear Gossips, Yesterday, Lainey opined that Michelle Yeoh should be in Best Actress contention for the 2023 awards season. While I am still exhausted by the 2022 awards season, Lainey is right and Yeoh is tremendous in Everything Everywhere All At Once. But this is also the exact kind of By Sarah • Apr 08, 2022 09:17 am
Oscars 2022 Will Smith resigns from the Academy We enter week two of The Slap with the news that Will Smith has resigned his membership from the Academy. Facing a potential suspension that could be a decade or more, Smith decided to just resign and not wait for the Academy’s decision regarding discipline on April 18. They By Sarah • Apr 04, 2022 11:59 am
BFFs Will, Bradley, and Leaving the Oscars As Sarah wrote earlier today, the Academy claimed last night that Will Smith was asked to leave the Oscars after slapping Chris Rock and he refused. Sarah was skeptical about this in her post, pointing out that his publicist was seen approaching Will several times after the incident but that By Lainey • Mar 31, 2022 01:18 pm
Dumbass The Slap drags on The story of The Slap continues as the Academy is dragging its feet on doing anything and Chris Rock returns to work on the theater circuit, performing at the Wilbur Theater where he was greeted with a standing ovation and some guy trying to start a “F-ck Will Smith” chant. By Sarah • Mar 31, 2022 10:27 am
Oscars 2022 Intro for March 30, 2022 Dear Gossips, Early this morning/late last night, Beyoncé posted new photos on Instagram – her second Oscar look, what she wore at the Gold Party. As always, Beyoncé makes you wait for it. The last photo in this carousel is the mic drop. It will never not amaze me that By Lainey • Mar 30, 2022 09:06 am
Style Sophie Wins Red There was a lot of red on the Oscar red carpet, right? Red, I think, was the dominant colour trend. Jennifer Garner, Simu Liu, Tracee Ellis Ross, Marlee Matlin, Kirsten Dunst, just to name a few. And of course the best of the red, at the Oscars proper, was Ariana By Lainey • Mar 29, 2022 02:23 pm
Oscars 2022 MBJ & Lori and ATJ & Malcolm: Oscar Couple Debuts Oscars gossip this year has obviously been dominated by Will Smith. But there are other much less controversial celebrity gossip storylines that have been overlooked. Like the fact that two couples made their red carpet premieres on Oscar night. Michael B Jordan and Lori Harvey stepped out for the first By Lainey • Mar 29, 2022 11:53 am
Top Reads Will Smith’s Oscars debacle follow-up and the Academy’s dithering “leadership” Fallout from The Slap, as it is now known, continues as the Academy board of governors and leadership had an emergency call on Monday about Will Smith and what to do since he struck Chris Rock in front of 1000+ of his peers and also a live television audience of By Sarah • Mar 29, 2022 11:11 am
Oscars 2022 Liza and Gaga: A Sweet End to a Messy Night And that’s how we’ll wrap it up too – like the Oscars, after a mess of a night, the show concluded on love and joy: CODA won Best Picture and Liza Minnelli and Lady Gaga made the announcement. Maybe it’s because I saw the Liza and Gaga moment By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 02:30 pm
Oscars 2022 The Men and Tiffany Haddish During the show, it was the Men and Regina Hall. For the purposes of this post, it’s the Men and Tiffany, but we’ll start with Timothée Chalamet because… HOW COULD WE NOT. Timmy was one of the men who Regina called up onstage, along with Bradley Cooper, Tyler By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 01:52 pm
Oscars 2022 Just Let Venus and Serena Party I was happy to see photos of Venus and Serena Williams at the Vanity Fair Oscar party last night because, well, can we just let them party?! That’s all we’re talking about here in this post – and nothing else. Just good vibes and good fashion, the end. Serena By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 01:03 pm
Oscars 2022 The highs and lows of Will Smith Obviously, this was not how anyone wanted the night to go. Will Smith has long been admired and beloved by his peers, goodwill you could feel every time he was nominated for and then won an award for his performance in King Richard. This was an “it’s his time” By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 11:56 am
Oscars 2022 Jessica Chastain’s Best Actress Dress Jessica Chastain is finally an Oscar winner – and this is the dress for the occasion. As I always say, an Oscar look is a forever look. A nominee who probably won’t win actually has more opportunity to have some fun with their look than someone who’s expected to By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 11:22 am
Oscars 2022 Zendaya, Olivia, Rachel: Oscar Sparkles There was a lot of sparkle at the Oscars, including Zendaya, my best dressed for the night in a crop-top button down and a high-waisted sparkle skirt by Valentino. It sort of reminds me of Sharon Stone’s Gap button down paired with a Vera Wang skirt at the 1996 By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 10:58 am
Oscars 2022 Kristen, Cynthia, Niecy, and Wanda: Queer Love at the Oscars Look, I wish we lived in a time when it wasn’t particularly noteworthy to see queer couples on Hollywood’s biggest night. I get that dedicating a post to queer love at the Oscars could be interpreted as a form of othering. Because in an ideal world, it’d By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 10:20 am
