Paul Thomas Anderson Paul Thomas Anderson and Ryan Coogler are it With the BAFTAs last night, we are now entering the meat of awards season. The Oscars are T-minus three weeks away, and we’re finally hearing from people who will get to vote for the Academy Awards. The BAFTAs and the Academy share membership overlap, so the BAFTAs, while a By Sarah • Feb 23, 2026 10:30 am
Leonardo DiCaprio Intro for January 15, 2026 Dear Gossips, We are now exactly two months away from the Oscars, which are happening on March 15, and it’s also nomination campaigning week, as Academy members are currently voting on the nominations, scheduled to be announced a week today on January 22. This means contenders are out there By Lainey • Jan 15, 2026 10:12 am
Ethan Hawke Sinners, PTA, and the surging actors There was a screener for Sinners yesterday in New York at SAG-AFTRA Foundation ahead of the Gothams and Lupita Nyong’o moderated the panel. She of course knows Ryan Coogler and Michael B Jordan well, Black Panther is the most famous example of their shared connection. And, of course, the By Lainey • Dec 02, 2025 11:20 am
Style One Battle to the Gothams As I just mentioned in the Three Beatles post today, the Gotham Awards are happening tonight in New York where One Battle After Another has the most nominations. I still don’t understand how a studio movie with a reported $200 million budget is playing in this sandbox but we By Lainey • Dec 01, 2025 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 9, 2025 Dear Gossips, There are a handful of directors who are events unto themselves. Christopher Nolan, for example, is enough to sell a movie. All you need to see is his name in the credits and people are out here buying tickets a year in advance for hundreds of dollars. And By Lainey • Sep 09, 2025 09:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Leonardo DiCaprio’s spirit age As noted in the open about Emma Stone’s Vogue cover profile and also a couple of weeks ago in my essay about the 20th anniversary of Jennifer Aniston’s Vanity Fair cover story in September 2005 and how we will never see an interview like that again, the cultural By Lainey • Aug 14, 2025 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joaquin Phoenix Travolta It’s been less than 3 months since Oscar. And that conversation is starting up again. I guess whenever Paul Thomas Anderson makes a movie though... I love that Anderson is married to Maya Rudolph. Maya by the way grew up with Gwyneth Paltrow. And Gwyneth was in Anderson’s By Lainey • May 22, 2012 12:38 pm
