Award Season Campaigning Teyana Taylor: Host, Nominee, and “Bernadine” Teyana Taylor received her first Oscar nomination yesterday for her performance as Perfidia Beverly Hills in One Battle After Another. She’s contending for Best Supporting Actress, and this is looking like an actual race between Teyana and Amy Madigan when, just before the holidays, it was thought that Teyana By Lainey • Jan 23, 2026 01:18 pm
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
Top Reads Teyana Time As Sarah noted in our post-Globes coverage about Teyana Taylor and the Best Supporting Actress race, up until Sunday night, it was Amy Madigan’s performance in Weapons who was considered the frontrunner in the category. And she still is, I think, but she’s also not running away with By Lainey • Jan 14, 2026 11:52 am
Golden Globes 2026 Teyana Taylor takes over Over the last couple of weeks, the momentum for Best Supporting Actress has been breaking for Amy Madigan for her performance in Weapons. Last night, however, Teyana Taylor pulled back some momentum for herself, winning Best Supporting Actress at the Golden Globes and giving a beautiful, sincere speech in which By Sarah • Jan 12, 2026 08:16 am
Award Season Campaigning The Gotham Awards set the tone The 35th Gotham Awards took place last night in New York. The Gothams are interesting, partly because they’re so early, they get to set the mood for the rest of awards season, but also partly because the voting body is split into two parts: nominating committees made up of By Sarah • Dec 02, 2025 10:21 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
Style The Women at the party It’s parties every night right now in Hollywood as we get closer to the end of the year and as award season heats up. Last night was the ELLE Women in Hollywood event and as I wrote last week when the cover stars were revealed, it’s great to By Lainey • Nov 18, 2025 11:29 am
Gwyneth Paltrow The supporting actresses turned up So far, 2025 has been an okay year in film. There has been a lot of okay-to-good stuff, a few very good things, and maybe a couple great things (Hamnet, and One Battle After Another). But in the midst of it happening, 2025 doesn’t feel like a great year By Sarah • Nov 17, 2025 11:38 am
TV Updates All’s Fair is a complete trainwreck By now you have probably heard two things: * Kim Kardashian’s new legal drama, All’s Fair, sucks * Kim Kardashian failed the California bar exam Are these things related? Only in spirit! You might also recall that I have mentioned a game I play with myself when it comes to By Sarah • Nov 12, 2025 10:35 am
What Else Teyana Taylor: Four changes and a nomination It was Teyana Taylor who hosted the CFDAs last night – one day she’ll probably return to the event to win the Style Icon award. Pretty sure no one is arguing with me here. Teyana served four different looks at the event, all Thom Browne. All four were a slamdunks, By Lainey • Nov 04, 2025 04:03 pm
Style The rising stars of Time100 Next Another of those year-end fetes is the Time100 Next Gala, which celebrates rising stars in culture, media, leadership, and activism. This year’s list includes Jonathan Bailey, Tramell Tillman, Teyana Taylor, Monica Barbaro—good of you to show AFTER her Oscar nomination, some of us were here BEFORE—Damson Idris, By Sarah • Oct 31, 2025 10:55 am
TV Updates All’s Fair …and snatched The cast of Ryan Murphy’s All’s Fair was in Paris last night for the premiere and in all the group shots on their multiple red carpets thus far, it’s been Kim Kardashian who is centered…because she is the main character. And as I wrote on Substack By Lainey • Oct 22, 2025 12:01 pm
TV Updates Kim K’s premiere night That Ed Gein show on Netflix has barely cooled and the Ryan Murphy factory is already onto the next thing, All’s Fair, coming to Hulu/Disney+ next month and starring Kim Kardashian, Niecy Nash, Naomi Watts, Sarah Paulson, Teyana Taylor, and Glenn Close. There’s a new featurette all By Sarah • Oct 17, 2025 10:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Thomas Anderon’s One Battle After Another Throughout his career, Paul Thomas Anderson has examined the American mythos from every angle, picking apart the American dream and all the various ways it can and will fail. His examinations are not really critiques, though, as much as they are clockworks depicting specific times and places in the “American By Sarah • Sep 29, 2025 01:34 pm
Quiveration Teyana, Aaron, plus Leo appreciation The hottest couple on the planet, Teyana Taylor and Aaron Pierre, walked their first red carpet together last night in London at the premiere of One Battle After Another. They’ve been together for months now, we see them together often enough, so this isn’t a hard launch, obviously, By Lainey • Sep 17, 2025 11:25 am
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
