Jeffrey Wells

Jeffrey Wells writes a daily stream-of-Hollywood-consciousness column for Hollywood Elsewhere, which he’s been running on his own since August 2004. Well, the editorial part at least. Sean Jacobs handles HE’s advertising.

Wells’ online adventure began with a twice-weekly online Hollywood column for Mr. Showbiz in October 1998. He wrote the same column for Reel.com from ’99 to ’02, and then for Kevin Smith (www.moviepoopshoot.com) from ’02 to ’04.

Wells reported and trend-pieced regularly for Entertainment Weekly from ’91 to ’96, for People from ’96 to ’98 and wrote a weekly Hollywood column for the L.A. Times Syndicate from ’94 to ’99. He also wrote a weekly N.Y. Daily News column in ’93-’94. he’s also written for the L.A. Times, N.Y. Times, Newsday, Washington Post, Men’s Journal, etc.

He was born and raised in New Jersey. High school years happened in N.J. and Connecticut. A few years of aimless wandering followed in Connecticut, Boston and Los Angeles. He got into journalism in 1977 with a movie/TV column for the Fairfield County Morning News, began freelancing in Manhattan in ’78. Managing editor for the Film Journal from April ’81 to June ’83; editor at the Hollywood Reporter from ’83 to ’84, three or four years of publicity and development, back to journalism in ’89.

Two sons (Jett, Dylan), one X-factor granddaughter (Sutton), two cats (Anya and Katya).  Rode a BMW yellow jacket during the late aughts, followed by a Marlon Brando rumblehog between ’15 and ’22.  Eternally in love with Paris, Rome, Hanoi, Munich, Prague, Rome, London, etc.

Category

Contender


Best Picture

1. Anora
2. Conclave
3. A Real Pain
4. A Complete Unknown
5. Sept. 5
6. Blitz
7. All We Imagine as Light
8. Queer
9. Babygirl
10. Dune: Part Two


Best Director

 1. Sean Baker, Anora 
2. Edward Berger, Conclave 
3. Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain 
4. Jacques Audiard, Emilia Perez 
5. James Mangold, A Complete Unknown


Best Actor

 1. Ralph Fiennes, Conclave 
2. Daniel Craig, Queer 
3. Timothee Chalamet, A Complete Unknown 
4. Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain 
5. Colman Domingo, Sing Sing 


Best Actress

 1. Mikey Madison, Anora 
2. Nicole Kidman, Babygirl 
3. Kirsten Dunst, Civil War 
4. Karla Sofia Gascon, Emilia Perez
5. Cynthia Erivo, Wicked 


Best Supporting Actor

1. Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain 
2. Stanley Tucci, Conclave 
3. Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice 
4. Yura Borisov, Anora 
5. Stanley Tucci, Conclave 


Best Supporting Actress

1. Isabella Rossellini, Conclave 
2. Zoe Saldana, Emilia Perez 
3. Carrie Coon, His Three Daughters 
4. Renate Reinsve, A Different Man 
5. Lady Gaga, Joker: Folie à Deux 


Best Original Screenplay

1. Anora
2. A Real Pain
3. His Three Daughters
4. A Real Pain
5. Sept 5


Best Adapted Screenplay

1. Conclave
2. Emilia Perez
3. Queer
4. Gladiator II
5. The Room Next Door


Best Cinematography

1. Dune: Part Two
2. Gladiator II
3. Wicked
4. Nosferatu
5. All We Imagine as Light

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