Award Season Campaigning The State of the Supporting Races As Sarah just mentioned in her posts about the BAFTAs, while One Battle After Another and Jessie Buckley are the clearly heavyweight favourites in the best picture and best actress races, the three other acting categories are much more unpredictable at this point where Oscar is concerned. Robert Aramayo’s By Lainey • Feb 23, 2026 05:21 pm
Award Season Campaigning The BAFTAs bring surprises and controversy I bet the Brits would love a day off from controversy, but that is not in god’s plan, apparently. The BAFTAs delivered controversy last night in two different ways. First, let’s talk about the lead acting categories, the site of a major upset (if you don’t pay By Sarah • Feb 23, 2026 04:29 pm
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 03:30 pm
Royals Intro for February 23, 2026 Dear Gossips, Prince William and Kate were in a couple’s outfit last night at the BAFTAs. He showed up in an oxblood velvet jacket while she was in a pink Gucci (that she’s worn before in 2019) with a velvet belt and clutch to match her husband. At By Lainey • Feb 23, 2026 02:41 pm
What Else Channing & Chan So, I know I was like, it’s too early to talk about Oscars for this year until we get through last year—Emily, the site manager, has already emailed me once about the language confusion of the award season time-warp and I wonder if she will again—but another By Sarah • Feb 20, 2026 09:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Toy Story 5 is going to make us contemplate aging Last year was dogsh-t at the box office, but one of the bright spots was Zootopia 2, Disney’s in-house authorized furry fanfic, which became Hollywood’s biggest animated film of all time—a necessary distinction as Ne Zha 2 is still reigning biggest animated film, period. Even when the By Sarah • Feb 20, 2026 07:41 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, February 20, 2026 Melissa McCarthy went to Barbra Streisand’s house and because Stephen Colbert is a professional, he asked about the basement mall. This is journalism. View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) By Maria • Feb 20, 2026 06:50 pm
Callum Turner Callum, Jacob, and all the Bond talk In these parts, per Sarah, we call the conversation about casting the new James Bond “but Dev Patel is right there”. Dev, however, does not seem to be a frontrunner in the current speculation (which is stupid) so we have to keep talking about Callum Turner and Jacob Elordi who, By Lainey • Feb 20, 2026 05:22 pm
Aaron Johnson Olympic Aaron Taylor-Johnson The Olympics wrap up this weekend. Every Olympic cycle I pick one sport to follow all the way through, and this year, inspired by Heated Rivalry, it was women’s hockey. Sorry to the men, but I cannot support the NHL, and though I am intrigued by this possibly being By Sarah • Feb 20, 2026 04:03 pm
Amanda Seyfried Amanda Seyfried’s terrific tresses The Testament of Ann Lee continues rolling out overseas, with the latest stop being the Berlinale for the film’s screening at the Berlin International Film Festival. Amanda Seyfried, who is still working hard for this film even though it’s “over” in the US with no Oscar nominations, turned By Sarah • Feb 20, 2026 03:21 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 20, 2026 Dear Gossips, I have been sick this week with some kind of stomach bug which is probably just my skeleton trying to escape its flesh prison, but that just means I had more time for the Olympics—yay Team USA women’s hockey! But also yay Team Canada! I wish By Sarah • Feb 20, 2026 02:25 pm
What Else Sterling and teal Matching your outfit to the background doesn’t work out for everyone… but it’s working for Sterling K Brown, in teal last night at the premiere of Paradise season two, streaming on February 23. I mean, it looks like teal to me, you might call it something else. But By Lainey • Feb 19, 2026 09:02 pm
Connor Storrie Connor and Hudson: booked and booked Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams have both confirmed their next projects after the smash hit success of Heated Rivalry season one – and in the same week. Connor’s announcement was first, he’s joined the cast of the upcoming A24 comedy, Peaked, about two mean girls at their high school By Lainey • Feb 19, 2026 08:32 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, February 19, 2026 It was very easy to cringe at the Love Story pap shots because, for those of us old enough to remember, John F Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette are so thoroughly catalogued in our pop culture DNA. Their clothes, their mannerisms, their public fights are frozen in time. Any attempt By Maria • Feb 19, 2026 07:22 pm
Michelle Yeoh Michelle Yeoh: An Empress gets her star So much of my curiosity about Chinese culture and symbolism started when I was a kid growing up in Canada watching Chinese dramas with my elders. Chinese people love costume dramas, throwing it back to the mysticism of the ancient martial arts masters or to the dynastic times, with royal By Lainey • Feb 19, 2026 06:17 pm
Royals Give us the mugshot! Biggest headline of the day for royal watchers and pop culture gossips – months after dropping his royal title, Just Andrew has been arrested in England. And he doesn’t even get a name anymore as the police confirmed that, "…we have today (19/2) arrested a man in his By Lainey • Feb 19, 2026 04:28 pm
