Lessons in Chemistry star and executive producer Brie Larson, showrunner and executive producer Lee Eisenberg, and show’s co-stars Lewis Pullman and Aja Naomi King were at Deadline’s Contenders TV event Sunday to discuss the Apple TV+ limited drama series and the potential for a second season.
Based on Bonnie Garmus’ best-selling debut novel, Lessons in Chemistry, is set in the early 1950s and follows Elizabeth Zott (Larson), whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a patriarchal society. When Elizabeth finds herself fired from her lab, she accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives – and the men who are suddenly listening – a lot more than recipes, all the while craving a return to her true love: science.
(L-r) Antonia Blyth, Lee Eisenberg, Brie Larson, Lewis Pullman and Aja Naomi King
“It...
Based on Bonnie Garmus’ best-selling debut novel, Lessons in Chemistry, is set in the early 1950s and follows Elizabeth Zott (Larson), whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a patriarchal society. When Elizabeth finds herself fired from her lab, she accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives – and the men who are suddenly listening – a lot more than recipes, all the while craving a return to her true love: science.
(L-r) Antonia Blyth, Lee Eisenberg, Brie Larson, Lewis Pullman and Aja Naomi King
“It...
- 4/14/2024
- by Addie Morfoot
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s often said it’s not the awards people remember, but the movies themselves. And though America Ferrera may not have won Best Supporting Actress tonight for Barbie, her speech on behalf of all hardworking women in the feature film about the Mattel doll is one for the eras.
“It’s been amazing — to be part of something that hits the culture the way that it did. And it made history, and to have been the human and to deliver Gloria’s journey and to have that be so embraced by the audience, is so wonderful. It speaks to people’s desires to be seen and to hear the truth or what feels true to them,” Ferrera told Deadline’s Antonia Blyth on the Oscar red carpet tonight.
Asked whether she was up for Barbie 2, Ferrera said, “Yeah, we’ll see” then trying to play coy went “Um, bye!
“It’s been amazing — to be part of something that hits the culture the way that it did. And it made history, and to have been the human and to deliver Gloria’s journey and to have that be so embraced by the audience, is so wonderful. It speaks to people’s desires to be seen and to hear the truth or what feels true to them,” Ferrera told Deadline’s Antonia Blyth on the Oscar red carpet tonight.
Asked whether she was up for Barbie 2, Ferrera said, “Yeah, we’ll see” then trying to play coy went “Um, bye!
- 3/11/2024
- by Antonia Blyth and Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
If there’s a holy grail of awards opening monologues, it’s Judd Apatow’s at the DGA Awards.
In typical fashion, the filmmaker who is known for his killer Bill Cosby impersonation, took the mic for the fifth time to host the DGA Awards — with the opening monologue cut off to the press room. Don’t ask why that is in a post Trump era political environment.
Apatow won over the room with his jokes about how hasty the DGA came to an agreement with the AMPTP, M&As and how Byron Allen could be the ultimate buyer of all media companies, and SAG-AFTRA president as “the voice of reason” during the swamps of the strike.
“My agent said I should hold out for more money, but in the spirt of the DGA, I accepted their first offer!” ribbed the 40-Year Old Virgin director in reference to how fast...
In typical fashion, the filmmaker who is known for his killer Bill Cosby impersonation, took the mic for the fifth time to host the DGA Awards — with the opening monologue cut off to the press room. Don’t ask why that is in a post Trump era political environment.
Apatow won over the room with his jokes about how hasty the DGA came to an agreement with the AMPTP, M&As and how Byron Allen could be the ultimate buyer of all media companies, and SAG-AFTRA president as “the voice of reason” during the swamps of the strike.
“My agent said I should hold out for more money, but in the spirt of the DGA, I accepted their first offer!” ribbed the 40-Year Old Virgin director in reference to how fast...
- 2/11/2024
- by Anthony D'Alessandro and Natalie Sitek
- Deadline Film + TV
If you’re a celebrity walking the red carpet of tonight’s Golden Globes, chances are pretty good that you’ll have to answer a few questions about why you decided to show up in the first place. Despite all the changes made by the HFPA in the last year — including boosting the racial and ethnic diversity of the membership and starting a hotline for folks to report malfeasance — distrust of the foreign press still remains.
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So far, most folks — like Glass Onion writer/director Rian Johnson, for example — are saying they...
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So far, most folks — like Glass Onion writer/director Rian Johnson, for example — are saying they...
- 1/11/2023
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
In Todd Field’s Tár, we meet Lydia Tár, a revered composer-conductor heading up the Berlin Philharmonic, played by Cate Blanchett. Nina Hoss, as Lydia’s wife Sharon, is concertmaster and first chair violin, and together they navigate the politics of their musical life while parenting their daughter Petra. But Lydia, who is at the top of her game, and readying for her career-pinnacle live recording, begins to self-destruct, forming an obsessive attachment to Olga, a young cellist, just as a troubling past entanglement comes to light. The target of criticism from her students and a New York Post article, Lydia’s staff and Olga desert her. Then Sharon takes flight with Petra, and Lydia finally slides into the demise of both her personal and professional life. In conversation with Antonia Blyth, Blanchett and Hoss discuss the absence of objective truth, how change is built on open-hearted discussion, and the...
- 12/22/2022
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
In She Said, Maria Schrader’s telling of the Harvey Weinstein take-down by New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, we see the birth of a historic moment: The turning of #MeToo from a movement into an unstoppable train of change. Based on Kantor and Twohey’s book, and from a screenplay by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, the reporters painstakingly gather evidence from silenced survivors, many of whom consulted on, and in some cases starred in, the film. For Zoe Kazan, alongside Carey Mulligan as Twohey, playing Kantor meant understanding her humanity, the practical nuts and bolts of reporting life, and the weight of what it is to bring others’ devastating personal truths to light. In conversation with Antonia Blyth, Kazan and Kantor discuss the portrayal of women at work to change the world.
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- 12/8/2022
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
With his latest film The Son, filmmaker Florian Zeller looked to open “a conversation” surrounding issues of mental health that he feels there’s too often “shame, guilt and ignorance around.” Another key component of the storytelling — here, as in Zeller’s recent Oscar winner The Father — is parenthood, and the difficulty of experiencing a sense of “powerlessness” in this arena.
The second film in a trilogy based on Zeller’s plays, The Son tells the story of Peter (Hugh Jackman), whose busy life with new partner Beth (Vanessa Kirby) and their baby is thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate (Laura Dern) turns up with their teenage son, Nicholas (Zen McGrath).
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When Dern first read Zeller’s script, she was quickly compelled, particularly given the fact that she, too, is a parent. “This [was] writing that exposes humanity in a way we rarely receive.
The second film in a trilogy based on Zeller’s plays, The Son tells the story of Peter (Hugh Jackman), whose busy life with new partner Beth (Vanessa Kirby) and their baby is thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate (Laura Dern) turns up with their teenage son, Nicholas (Zen McGrath).
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When Dern first read Zeller’s script, she was quickly compelled, particularly given the fact that she, too, is a parent. “This [was] writing that exposes humanity in a way we rarely receive.
- 11/19/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
After being exclusively virtual the past couple of years, we are happy to announce we are back in front of a live audience again.
The Oscars may have just ended, but Deadline’s Contenders Television event is looking forward with the biggest gathering of the small screen’s awards hopefuls we have ever put together. It will all take place at Paramount Studios in person, and live streamed for those at home, on the weekend of April 9 and 10, 2022.
Forty-seven shows and 146 speakers will participate in Deadline’s Contenders Television, a massive kickoff event for the TV awards season. The hybrid gathering will begin in person at Paramount at 7Am with a catered breakfast, as well as virtually streaming live starting at 8Am Pt both days. There will also be lunch served and a cocktail reception following each day.
ABC, Amazon Prime Video, AMC Networks, Apple TV+, CBS Studios, Disney Television Studios,...
The Oscars may have just ended, but Deadline’s Contenders Television event is looking forward with the biggest gathering of the small screen’s awards hopefuls we have ever put together. It will all take place at Paramount Studios in person, and live streamed for those at home, on the weekend of April 9 and 10, 2022.
Forty-seven shows and 146 speakers will participate in Deadline’s Contenders Television, a massive kickoff event for the TV awards season. The hybrid gathering will begin in person at Paramount at 7Am with a catered breakfast, as well as virtually streaming live starting at 8Am Pt both days. There will also be lunch served and a cocktail reception following each day.
ABC, Amazon Prime Video, AMC Networks, Apple TV+, CBS Studios, Disney Television Studios,...
- 3/30/2022
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Each of this year’s Best Picture Oscar nominees has survived a journey to cross the finish line, before earning the Academy’s consideration. Here’s how they came together.
Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees Streaming Site
Belfast
Writer-director Kenneth Branagh began work on Belfast at the beginning of 2020, but the story itself has been growing for 50 years. “The desire to write something about Belfast had been with me ever since I left the place,” says Branagh, “but it was definitely enhanced by the idea of the lockdown. There was much more introspection at the beginning of this period.”
In casting his family, Branagh’s goal was to cast people who understood the culture of Belfast. “I admired Jamie Dornan very much for his work on The Fall,” he says, “he’s from just outside Belfast. Ciarán Hinds was brought up a half a mile from where I lived,...
Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees Streaming Site
Belfast
Writer-director Kenneth Branagh began work on Belfast at the beginning of 2020, but the story itself has been growing for 50 years. “The desire to write something about Belfast had been with me ever since I left the place,” says Branagh, “but it was definitely enhanced by the idea of the lockdown. There was much more introspection at the beginning of this period.”
In casting his family, Branagh’s goal was to cast people who understood the culture of Belfast. “I admired Jamie Dornan very much for his work on The Fall,” he says, “he’s from just outside Belfast. Ciarán Hinds was brought up a half a mile from where I lived,...
- 3/17/2022
- by Mike Fleming Jr, Joe Utichi, Antonia Blyth, Ryan Fleming, Damon Wise and Stevie Wong
- Deadline Film + TV
Journalist and author Lynette Rice, who has covered the TV industry for more than two decades, is joining Deadline as TV Editor, Awards and Senior TV Writer. She starts March 16.
Rice will help spearhead the print and online coverage of TV awards season and contribute to the site’s coverage of TV industry news. She can be reached at lrice@deadline.com.
“I’ve known Lynette for 22 years. It’s a long story but she is the reason I got into entertainment journalism,” said Co-Editor-in-Chief, TV Nellie Andreeva, who made the hire with Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film Mike Fleming Jr. “As we finally get to work together, Mike and I are thrilled to have Lynette bring her deep knowledge of the TV business and extensive industry contacts to Deadline.”
On the breaking TV news side, in addition to Andreeva, Rice joins Deadline’s TV Editor Peter White, Senior TV Reporter Rosy Cordero,...
Rice will help spearhead the print and online coverage of TV awards season and contribute to the site’s coverage of TV industry news. She can be reached at lrice@deadline.com.
“I’ve known Lynette for 22 years. It’s a long story but she is the reason I got into entertainment journalism,” said Co-Editor-in-Chief, TV Nellie Andreeva, who made the hire with Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film Mike Fleming Jr. “As we finally get to work together, Mike and I are thrilled to have Lynette bring her deep knowledge of the TV business and extensive industry contacts to Deadline.”
On the breaking TV news side, in addition to Andreeva, Rice joins Deadline’s TV Editor Peter White, Senior TV Reporter Rosy Cordero,...
- 3/11/2022
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
Musical savant, fashion maven, provocateur, philanthropist. When multi-hyphenate Lady Gaga first added ‘leading actress’ to the list with 2018’s A Star is Born, she was Oscar-nominated. Now, she’s back with House of Gucci. Can Ridley Scott’s film cement her path as a major movie player? Antonia Blyth meets Gaga to dig into the real story behind the star.
In the Ridley Scott-directed House of Gucci, Lady Gaga plays Patrizia Reggiani, the notorious ‘black widow’ who had her husband Maurizio Gucci murdered. And much has been made of Gaga’s deep dive into Patrizia—the nine months spent speaking in her accent, the ‘cloud of black flies’ she felt followed her on set, the granular research she put in—but as a conceptual artist who has always created a 360-degree experience with her music and its videos, and with a personal style that transcends trends and leans towards performance art,...
In the Ridley Scott-directed House of Gucci, Lady Gaga plays Patrizia Reggiani, the notorious ‘black widow’ who had her husband Maurizio Gucci murdered. And much has been made of Gaga’s deep dive into Patrizia—the nine months spent speaking in her accent, the ‘cloud of black flies’ she felt followed her on set, the granular research she put in—but as a conceptual artist who has always created a 360-degree experience with her music and its videos, and with a personal style that transcends trends and leans towards performance art,...
- 1/26/2022
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
Writer-director Fran Kranz and cast members Reed Birney, Ann Dowd, Jason Isaacs and Martha Plimpton promised nervous audiences that their school-shooting drama Mass is a hopeful one. They spoke with Deadline’s Antonia Blyth at The Contenders Film: Los Angeles event Sunday.
“It’s about finding a path forward,” Kraz said. “It’s about trying to move through something. I wanted to tell a story about forgiveness and reconciliation because I want to feel more of it.”
Plimpton and Isaacs play the parents of a shooting victim. Birney and Dowd play the parents of the shooter, who also died in the attack.
“We think, ‘I could never deal with something like this’ and in fact you can, if you want to,” Birney said. “That’s really the difference. You’ve got to want to.”
Mass filmed in a Covid-safe bubble. The entire film takes place in a meeting room in...
“It’s about finding a path forward,” Kraz said. “It’s about trying to move through something. I wanted to tell a story about forgiveness and reconciliation because I want to feel more of it.”
Plimpton and Isaacs play the parents of a shooting victim. Birney and Dowd play the parents of the shooter, who also died in the attack.
“We think, ‘I could never deal with something like this’ and in fact you can, if you want to,” Birney said. “That’s really the difference. You’ve got to want to.”
Mass filmed in a Covid-safe bubble. The entire film takes place in a meeting room in...
- 11/15/2021
- by Fred Topel
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline’s awards team, responsible for the brand’s print publication AwardsLine, has been bolstered today by the promotion of Antonia Blyth to Senior Awards Editor, and the additions of Damon Wise as Film Editor, Awards and David Morgan as Production Editor, Awards.
Antonia joined Deadline in 2019 as AwardsLine’s Deputy Editor, after a long association with the brand as a freelance contributor. She continues to report to Joe Utichi, Deadline’s Executive Awards Editor, whose own promotion was announced earlier in the year. “Antonia has been my right hand since long before she joined us full-time,” said Utichi. “She is an indispensable part of the Deadline family; a consummate journalist and gifted writer who has fully embraced the challenge to deliver world-leading awards coverage. She is my ultimate partner-in-crime.”
Damon has had a long and storied career in his native UK, covering cinema for outlets like Total Film, Empire,...
Antonia joined Deadline in 2019 as AwardsLine’s Deputy Editor, after a long association with the brand as a freelance contributor. She continues to report to Joe Utichi, Deadline’s Executive Awards Editor, whose own promotion was announced earlier in the year. “Antonia has been my right hand since long before she joined us full-time,” said Utichi. “She is an indispensable part of the Deadline family; a consummate journalist and gifted writer who has fully embraced the challenge to deliver world-leading awards coverage. She is my ultimate partner-in-crime.”
Damon has had a long and storied career in his native UK, covering cinema for outlets like Total Film, Empire,...
- 11/8/2021
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline’s The Contenders Film: Los Angeles Set For November 14; 30 Awards Contenders To Be Featured
After going strictly virtual in 2020 due to the pandemic, Deadline’s The Contenders Film: Los Angeles is returning in-person next month at the DGA Theater.
The Sunday, November 14 event, like the recent Contenders London, will be a hybrid event, running live in-person from 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Pt as well as stream live from 8:50 a.m.-4:40 p.m. Pt.
A total as of now of 30 films will be highlighted and feature some of the season’s top Oscar and awards contenders including Being the Ricardos, The Tender Bar, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Coda, Belfast, Sing 2, House of Gucci, Licorice Pizza, Spencer, Respect, The Power of the Dog, Don’t Look Up, tick,tick…Boom!, The Lost Daughter, Parallel Mothers, King Richard, Mass, I’m Your Man, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, A Hero, Swan Song, Leave No Traces, The Boss Baby: Family Business, Spirit Untamed,...
The Sunday, November 14 event, like the recent Contenders London, will be a hybrid event, running live in-person from 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Pt as well as stream live from 8:50 a.m.-4:40 p.m. Pt.
A total as of now of 30 films will be highlighted and feature some of the season’s top Oscar and awards contenders including Being the Ricardos, The Tender Bar, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Coda, Belfast, Sing 2, House of Gucci, Licorice Pizza, Spencer, Respect, The Power of the Dog, Don’t Look Up, tick,tick…Boom!, The Lost Daughter, Parallel Mothers, King Richard, Mass, I’m Your Man, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, A Hero, Swan Song, Leave No Traces, The Boss Baby: Family Business, Spirit Untamed,...
- 10/28/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline Contenders Film: London, our annual awards-season kickoff that is gearing up for its hybrid in-person/virtual edition this weekend, has finalized its lineup of panelists for this year’s showcase, which will put the spotlight on 19 of the year’s buzziest films and their filmmakers, actors and below-the-line talent for BAFTA, AMPAS and guild voters.
The list of participants for the all-day event Saturday, October 9 at the Ham Yard Hotel, which kicks off at 8 a.m. London time (a virtual edition begins at 9:30 a.m.), features a who’s who of actors and creators behind this year’s top films from nine participating studios and streamers.
Among the 44 confirmed attendees will be The Tender Bar‘s George Clooney and Grant Heslov; Respect‘s Jennifer Hudson; Dune‘s Denis Villeneuve and star Rebecca Ferguson; Palme d’Or winner Titane‘s Julia Ducournau; Encounter‘s Riz Ahmed; A Hero‘s...
The list of participants for the all-day event Saturday, October 9 at the Ham Yard Hotel, which kicks off at 8 a.m. London time (a virtual edition begins at 9:30 a.m.), features a who’s who of actors and creators behind this year’s top films from nine participating studios and streamers.
Among the 44 confirmed attendees will be The Tender Bar‘s George Clooney and Grant Heslov; Respect‘s Jennifer Hudson; Dune‘s Denis Villeneuve and star Rebecca Ferguson; Palme d’Or winner Titane‘s Julia Ducournau; Encounter‘s Riz Ahmed; A Hero‘s...
- 10/5/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline’s Contenders London is officially back and in person, with the latest edition of the movie awards-season showcase set for Saturday, October 9 at the Ham Yard Hotel. The all-day series of panels with 19 of the buzziest films and their filmmakers, actors and below-the-line talent will begin at 8 a.m. London time. There will also be a virtual edition beginning at 9:30 a.m.
Returning as host and moderator is Executive Awards Editor Joe Utichi, who steers Deadline’s awards-season coverage. He’ll be joined by fellow moderators including Deadline Co-Editor-in-Chief Mike Fleming Jr, Awardsline Deputy Editor Antonia Blyth, Television Editor Peter White, International Film Reporter Tom Grater, International Features Editor Diana Lodderhose, Awards Columnist and Film Critic Pete Hammond (who’ll be joining virtually), Awardsline contributor Damon Wise and Film Critic Anna Smith.
Throughout the event BAFTA, AMPAS and guild voters will hear from the filmmakers, stars and crew...
Returning as host and moderator is Executive Awards Editor Joe Utichi, who steers Deadline’s awards-season coverage. He’ll be joined by fellow moderators including Deadline Co-Editor-in-Chief Mike Fleming Jr, Awardsline Deputy Editor Antonia Blyth, Television Editor Peter White, International Film Reporter Tom Grater, International Features Editor Diana Lodderhose, Awards Columnist and Film Critic Pete Hammond (who’ll be joining virtually), Awardsline contributor Damon Wise and Film Critic Anna Smith.
Throughout the event BAFTA, AMPAS and guild voters will hear from the filmmakers, stars and crew...
- 9/29/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline has launched the streaming site for its Contenders Television: The Nominees, out annual award-season event that this past weekend shined a light on panel presentations from 34 Emmy-nominated series featuring 117 cast and creatives from 16 broadcast and cable networks and streamers.
Click here for the Contenders Television: The Nominees streaming site.
The Saturday and Sunday virtual panels included in-depth conversation with the likes of Pose‘s Billy Porter and Mj Rodriguez, Mare of Easttown‘s Kate Winslet, Secrets of the Whales‘ James Cameron, A West Wing Reunion‘s Aaron Sorkin, Thomas Schlamme and Bradley Whitford, Christmas on the Square‘s Dolly Parton and Debbie Allen, Genius: Aretha‘s Cynthia Erivo, In Treatment‘s Uzo Aduba, Hacks‘ Jean Smart, Hamilton‘s Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Leslie Odom Jr and Philippa Soo, Cobra Kai‘s Ralph Macchio and William Zabka, Perry Mason‘s Matthew Rhys and John Lithgow, SNL‘s Kenan Thompson and Bowen Yang,...
Click here for the Contenders Television: The Nominees streaming site.
The Saturday and Sunday virtual panels included in-depth conversation with the likes of Pose‘s Billy Porter and Mj Rodriguez, Mare of Easttown‘s Kate Winslet, Secrets of the Whales‘ James Cameron, A West Wing Reunion‘s Aaron Sorkin, Thomas Schlamme and Bradley Whitford, Christmas on the Square‘s Dolly Parton and Debbie Allen, Genius: Aretha‘s Cynthia Erivo, In Treatment‘s Uzo Aduba, Hacks‘ Jean Smart, Hamilton‘s Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Leslie Odom Jr and Philippa Soo, Cobra Kai‘s Ralph Macchio and William Zabka, Perry Mason‘s Matthew Rhys and John Lithgow, SNL‘s Kenan Thompson and Bowen Yang,...
- 8/16/2021
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
Ever-popular Deadline franchise The Contenders is set for the last big blowout of the TV season just as final voting for Emmys begins. Deadline’s The Contenders Television: The Nominees has grown so big that we had to spread it across an entire weekend, so in livestreamed presentations we are hosting panels for comedies, documentaries/reality and specials on Saturday August 14, and panels for Dramas, Limited Series & Movies on Sunday, August 15. Each day begins at 9 a.m. Pt.
The 34 different shows run the gamut of some of the season’s most acclaimed, awarded and nominated programs from a total of 16 networks and featuring 108 talent involved.
You can register for the event at https://contenderstelevision.deadline.com.
Moderators from Deadline include Mike Fleming Jr., Pete Hammond, Dominic Patten, Rosy Cordero, Anthony D’Alessandro, Antonia Blyth, Joe Utichi, Matt Grobar, Dade Hayes, Matthew Carey, Jill Goldsmith and Alexandra Del Rosario.
Among the stars...
The 34 different shows run the gamut of some of the season’s most acclaimed, awarded and nominated programs from a total of 16 networks and featuring 108 talent involved.
You can register for the event at https://contenderstelevision.deadline.com.
Moderators from Deadline include Mike Fleming Jr., Pete Hammond, Dominic Patten, Rosy Cordero, Anthony D’Alessandro, Antonia Blyth, Joe Utichi, Matt Grobar, Dade Hayes, Matthew Carey, Jill Goldsmith and Alexandra Del Rosario.
Among the stars...
- 8/4/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
For a second year in a row, Deadline’s Contenders Television is going virtual, and we are about to take off with an astonishing 128 creatives and stars appearing in the all-day event that will feature a total of 21 networks and 49 shows. This again is the must-see happening of the TV awards season and it promises to be our biggest yet as we pull out all the stops to give voters a kind of one-stop shopping opportunity to check out the top contenders for TV’s highest awards.
To watch the livestream of today’s event, click here.
The magnitude of what is on offer in all facets of television means this Contenders opportunity has grown to become the largest of all of them that we do. Two weeks ago we launched our first separate Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted event to great response, and now beginning at 8 a.m. Pt we...
To watch the livestream of today’s event, click here.
The magnitude of what is on offer in all facets of television means this Contenders opportunity has grown to become the largest of all of them that we do. Two weeks ago we launched our first separate Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted event to great response, and now beginning at 8 a.m. Pt we...
- 5/15/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
For a second year in a row, Deadline’s popular Contenders Television is going virtual, with an astonishing 129 creatives and stars set to appear in the all-day event Saturday, May 15 that features a total of 21 networks participating and 49 different shows. This is the must-see happening of the TV awards season and it promises to be our biggest yet as we pull out all the stops to give voters a kind of one-stop shopping opportunity to check out the top contenders for TV’s highest awards.
The magnitude of what is on offer in all facets of television means this Contenders opportunity has grown to become the largest of all of them that we do. Last weekend, we launched our first separate Contenders Television Documentary + Unscripted event to great response, and now we tackle the hopefuls in key competitive categories for Primetime recognition.
Studios participating on May 15 are ABC/Disney Television Studios,...
The magnitude of what is on offer in all facets of television means this Contenders opportunity has grown to become the largest of all of them that we do. Last weekend, we launched our first separate Contenders Television Documentary + Unscripted event to great response, and now we tackle the hopefuls in key competitive categories for Primetime recognition.
Studios participating on May 15 are ABC/Disney Television Studios,...
- 5/6/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
This very unusual eight-month movie-awards season is winding down as BAFTA and DGA virtual ceremonies take place this weekend and Oscar final voting is set to begin Thursday. What better time for Deadline’s first-ever Contenders Film: The Nominees to take place? The final countdown starts here beginning at 10 a.m. Pt with a total of 18 films from 11 studios featuring 45 nominated filmmakers and stars, all giving us the lowdown on the movies that are bringing them all to the end of a long journey that culminates on Hollywood’s biggest night of the year, April 25 (the latest date ever for an Academy Award show).
To watch the livestream of today’s event, click here.
In January, over the course of two weekends, we presented separate Contenders Film events for Documentary, International and then a big two-day look at all the movie hopefuls in this pandemic-affected year. Now, for the first time,...
To watch the livestream of today’s event, click here.
In January, over the course of two weekends, we presented separate Contenders Film events for Documentary, International and then a big two-day look at all the movie hopefuls in this pandemic-affected year. Now, for the first time,...
- 4/10/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
A sterling final lineup of talent, filmmakers and stars will be participating in Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees virtual event on Saturday. Among nominated actors appearing are Leslie Odom Jr., Riz Ahmed, Paul Raci, Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova, Carey Mulligan, Andra Day, Amanda Seyfried, BAFTA nominee Mads Mikkelsen, as well as stars from International Film contender The Man Who Sold His Skin including Monica Bellucci, Yahya, Mahayni and Dea Liane.
Filmmakers include all five directors of the International Film nominees, Kemp Powers, Darius Marder, Garrett Bradley, Tomm Moore, Maite Alberdi, Alexander Nanau, Skye Fitzgerald, Aaron Sorkin, Emerald Fennell, Thomas Vinterberg and many other artisans poised to possibly receive the film industry’s highest honors.
A total of 18 Oscar-nominated films from 11 studios and distributors will be highlighted in Deadline’s first-ever nominees Contenders Film for the movie awards season. The all-day livestreamed event is Saturday beginning at 10 a.m.
Filmmakers include all five directors of the International Film nominees, Kemp Powers, Darius Marder, Garrett Bradley, Tomm Moore, Maite Alberdi, Alexander Nanau, Skye Fitzgerald, Aaron Sorkin, Emerald Fennell, Thomas Vinterberg and many other artisans poised to possibly receive the film industry’s highest honors.
A total of 18 Oscar-nominated films from 11 studios and distributors will be highlighted in Deadline’s first-ever nominees Contenders Film for the movie awards season. The all-day livestreamed event is Saturday beginning at 10 a.m.
- 4/6/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
A total of 18 Oscar-nominated films from 11 studios and distributors will be highlighted in Deadline’s first-ever nominees Contenders Film event for the movie awards season. The all-day livestreamed event takes place Saturday, April 10 beginning at 10 a.m. Pt, and comes on the heels of our two-day Contenders Film weekend in phase one of this very unusual pandemic-affected year.
Although we have been doing our popular Contenders Film events for the past decade, this is the first time we will be doing a phase two, where voters from AMPAS, the guilds and BAFTA get to experience close-up conversations with many of the actual nominated stars and filmmakers before casting those final ballots. Because the TV awards season also was virtual last year, we were able to do a nominees edition for that as well and it was a huge success.
Among the studios/distributors participating will be Amazon Studios, Apple Original Films,...
Although we have been doing our popular Contenders Film events for the past decade, this is the first time we will be doing a phase two, where voters from AMPAS, the guilds and BAFTA get to experience close-up conversations with many of the actual nominated stars and filmmakers before casting those final ballots. Because the TV awards season also was virtual last year, we were able to do a nominees edition for that as well and it was a huge success.
Among the studios/distributors participating will be Amazon Studios, Apple Original Films,...
- 3/25/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline’s annual Contenders Film event is coming on the weekend of January 23-24, a virtual extravaganza of awards-caliber films — 49 in all — that is a must-stop this very different Oscar season.
With a livestream beginning at 8 a.m. Pt both Saturday and Sunday, the crème de la crème of contenders will be showcased with clips and conversations with top talent. In fact, the lineup of stars and filmmakers this year is truly extraordinary: 16 studios are participating including A24, Amazon Studios, Apple, Bleecker Street, DreamWorks Animation, Focus Features, Gravitas Ventures, Hulu, Kino Lorber, Neon, Netflix, Sony Pictures Classics, STX Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced changes to this much-anticipated movie-season event which normally takes place in the fall in London, New York City and Los Angeles. But as with last spring’s Emmys, and last weekend’s successful launch of our spinoff events Contenders Documentary and Contenders International,...
With a livestream beginning at 8 a.m. Pt both Saturday and Sunday, the crème de la crème of contenders will be showcased with clips and conversations with top talent. In fact, the lineup of stars and filmmakers this year is truly extraordinary: 16 studios are participating including A24, Amazon Studios, Apple, Bleecker Street, DreamWorks Animation, Focus Features, Gravitas Ventures, Hulu, Kino Lorber, Neon, Netflix, Sony Pictures Classics, STX Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced changes to this much-anticipated movie-season event which normally takes place in the fall in London, New York City and Los Angeles. But as with last spring’s Emmys, and last weekend’s successful launch of our spinoff events Contenders Documentary and Contenders International,...
- 1/13/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Emerald Fennell’s directorial debut Promising Young Woman could have easily been your classic revenge fantasy thriller, with its tale of Cassie, a grief-stricken, silently enraged woman on a mission to expose every last sexual predator in town. Only it’s so much more. Styled like an entrancing ’90s romcom, it wrongfoots the viewer at every turn with its fluffy-sweatered, heart-printed world, punctuated by cupcakes and pop songs. With Carey Mulligan’s blood-curdlingly underplayed performance as Cassie, Fennell leads us down a deceptively pretty garden path to the real truth about sexual assault and society’s turning of the other cheek, in a journey so twisty we never see its end coming. Antonia Blyth meets Fennell and Mulligan to find out how they disguised a truly thought-provoking shocker as a pretty pink love story.
“We’ve both gone completely potty,” Emerald Fennell says, as she fires off a text to...
“We’ve both gone completely potty,” Emerald Fennell says, as she fires off a text to...
- 1/13/2021
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
Contenders Television: The Nominees, Deadline’s livestream telecast Sunday that featured 28 of the year’s most celebrated shows hailing from 17 networks and studios, launched its streaming site Monday. It allows access to all the panels as well as interstitial video extras showcasing most of our 74 participants discussing what new skills they’ve picked up during the coronavirus lockdown and what is their best piece of advice.
Click here to access the streaming site. You can also catch up on our print coverage of our panels here.
Sunday’s 10-hour event, which like June’s pre-Emmy nominations Contenders Television event was virtual because of the coronavirus pandemic, featured talent including actors Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Rachel Brosnahan, Tony Shalhoub, Alex Borstein, Marin Hinkle, Wanda Sykes, Jennifer Aniston, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Martin Short, Sterling K. Brown, Ron Chephas Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Billy Porter, Matt Berry, Hugh Jackman, Mark Ruffalo, Regina King,...
Click here to access the streaming site. You can also catch up on our print coverage of our panels here.
Sunday’s 10-hour event, which like June’s pre-Emmy nominations Contenders Television event was virtual because of the coronavirus pandemic, featured talent including actors Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Rachel Brosnahan, Tony Shalhoub, Alex Borstein, Marin Hinkle, Wanda Sykes, Jennifer Aniston, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Martin Short, Sterling K. Brown, Ron Chephas Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Billy Porter, Matt Berry, Hugh Jackman, Mark Ruffalo, Regina King,...
- 8/17/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline’s all-day Contenders Television: The Nominees virtual event is underway and is being live-streamed all day, so get on your couch and prepare for a one-stop shopping experience as we present a remarkable gathering of this season’s newly minted Emmy and TCA nominees and Golden Globe, SAG, and Critics’ Choice winners.
Check out the full schedule below for the event, hosted again by Deadline’s Awardsline editor Joe Utichi. You can sign up for the livestream here, and also follow along on Deadline’s social channels using the hashtag #DeadlineContenders.
We have a total of 74 speakers this time around, along with 17 studios and networks and 28 different show contenders. Among the talent scheduled to appear are Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Rachel Brosnahan, Tony Shalhoub, Alex Borstein, Marin Hinkle, Wanda Sykes, Jennifer Aniston, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Martin Short, Sterling K. Brown, Ron Chephas Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Billy Porter,...
Check out the full schedule below for the event, hosted again by Deadline’s Awardsline editor Joe Utichi. You can sign up for the livestream here, and also follow along on Deadline’s social channels using the hashtag #DeadlineContenders.
We have a total of 74 speakers this time around, along with 17 studios and networks and 28 different show contenders. Among the talent scheduled to appear are Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Rachel Brosnahan, Tony Shalhoub, Alex Borstein, Marin Hinkle, Wanda Sykes, Jennifer Aniston, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Martin Short, Sterling K. Brown, Ron Chephas Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Billy Porter,...
- 8/16/2020
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
In The Morning Show, Jennifer Aniston plays a kind of angel to Billy Crudup’s devil. Aniston’s Alex Levy, an utterly dedicated and focused television news anchor, holds tight to a good-person identity, so she’s floored when co-anchor Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell) is outed for sexual misconduct, and she’s forced to question her own failure to see what was hidden in plain sight. Meanwhile, Crudup’s news exec Cory Ellison embraces his inner Machiavelli as he attempts to edge Alex out of her job. Then the magic happens: Alex bares her teeth, appointing surprise new co-anchor Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon) and telling a post-#MeToo, all-male boardroom, “You don’t have the power anymore.” An impressed Cory then turns his disruptive instincts into a force for good as he helps Alex tear the lid off the network’s culture of complicity. In conversation with Antonia Blyth, Crudup and Aniston,...
- 8/15/2020
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
On June 20. Deadline presented Phase 1 of our The Contenders Television all-day virtual event, a huge success with record attendance and withrecord numbers of participants including 100-plus stars and creatives. Now it is time for Phase 2 on Sunday, August 16, for an all-new, all-day invitation-only edition of Contenders TV featuring numerous Emmy and Television Critics Association nominees as well as many 2020 Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice and SAG winners. It is the place to be for voters, and it all will be livestreamed beginning at 8 a.m. Pt.
We have a total of 74 speakers this time around, along with 17 studios and networks and 28 different show contenders. Among talent scheduled to appear are Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Rachel Brosnahan, Tony Shalhoub, Alex Borstein, Marin Hinkle, Wanda Sykes, Jennifer Aniston, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Martin Short, Sterling K. Brown, Ron Chephas Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Billy Porter, Matt Berry, Hugh Jackman, Mark Ruffalo, Regina KIng,...
We have a total of 74 speakers this time around, along with 17 studios and networks and 28 different show contenders. Among talent scheduled to appear are Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Rachel Brosnahan, Tony Shalhoub, Alex Borstein, Marin Hinkle, Wanda Sykes, Jennifer Aniston, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Martin Short, Sterling K. Brown, Ron Chephas Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Billy Porter, Matt Berry, Hugh Jackman, Mark Ruffalo, Regina KIng,...
- 8/10/2020
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated with site going live: Deadline’s Contenders Television, the invitation-only livestream telecast Saturday that featured its largest roster of participants ever, has launched its streaming site with all 44 series from 22 studios and networks.
Saturday’s nine-hour event, which went virtual for the first time because of the coronavirus pandemic, featured talent video-conferencing from locations around the world — from the Australian Bush (Russell Crowe), Rome (Willem Dafoe), and London to the East Coast, the West Coast and all points between.
Click here to go to the Contenders Television streaming site. Click on the Learn More drop-down link to get network and panelist information as well as the full panel video.
The impressive talent roster also includes Elizabeth Banks, Patrick Stewart, Anthony Anderson, Ramy Youssef, Trevor Noah, Jim Parsons, Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Julia Garner, Steve Carell, John Malkovich, David Harbour, Jerrika Hinton, Bob Odenkirk, Rhea Seehorn,...
Saturday’s nine-hour event, which went virtual for the first time because of the coronavirus pandemic, featured talent video-conferencing from locations around the world — from the Australian Bush (Russell Crowe), Rome (Willem Dafoe), and London to the East Coast, the West Coast and all points between.
Click here to go to the Contenders Television streaming site. Click on the Learn More drop-down link to get network and panelist information as well as the full panel video.
The impressive talent roster also includes Elizabeth Banks, Patrick Stewart, Anthony Anderson, Ramy Youssef, Trevor Noah, Jim Parsons, Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Julia Garner, Steve Carell, John Malkovich, David Harbour, Jerrika Hinton, Bob Odenkirk, Rhea Seehorn,...
- 6/22/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Up Next: Russell Crowe talks Showtime’s The Loudest Room.
Deadline’s invitation-only Contenders Television all-day event is underway. For the first time ever, out of necessity due to restrictions posed by the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve gone virtual.
Originally we had aimed to present Contenders in April at Paramount Studios in front of a live audience of Television Academy and key guild voters, just like we always do. But it became abundantly clear that was not going to be possible as Hollywood, at least physically, shut down. So what to do? We went back to square one and completely reimagined Contenders for the Covid-19 era. In the spirit of the show must go on, indeed it will.
Like many of the TV series we are showcasing in this massive undertaking involving 22 studios and networks plus 44 different shows and 106 speakers, we have gone virtual in our first-ever live-streaming Contenders — a...
Deadline’s invitation-only Contenders Television all-day event is underway. For the first time ever, out of necessity due to restrictions posed by the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve gone virtual.
Originally we had aimed to present Contenders in April at Paramount Studios in front of a live audience of Television Academy and key guild voters, just like we always do. But it became abundantly clear that was not going to be possible as Hollywood, at least physically, shut down. So what to do? We went back to square one and completely reimagined Contenders for the Covid-19 era. In the spirit of the show must go on, indeed it will.
Like many of the TV series we are showcasing in this massive undertaking involving 22 studios and networks plus 44 different shows and 106 speakers, we have gone virtual in our first-ever live-streaming Contenders — a...
- 6/20/2020
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
The 5th Annual Deadline Contenders Television is set to take place on Sunday June 7th , but this time with a difference. For the first time in the history of any of our Contenders events , whether in Oscar season or Emmy season , it will be all done virtually with a livestream beginning at 8Am Pt and taking place all day in an incredible feat of gathering the best and brightest TV awards contenders all in one place, and all in the comfort of your own home.
The Coronavirus pandemic has forced all elements of the industry, including television in its many forms, to re-think how they can best serve the viewers, and Deadline with its hugely popular Contenders events is doing the same thing. We are pleased to report the response from the television industry, from networks to studios to creatives to stars, has been phenomenal. In fact we are announcing...
The Coronavirus pandemic has forced all elements of the industry, including television in its many forms, to re-think how they can best serve the viewers, and Deadline with its hugely popular Contenders events is doing the same thing. We are pleased to report the response from the television industry, from networks to studios to creatives to stars, has been phenomenal. In fact we are announcing...
- 5/4/2020
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s that time of year again, as Deadline’s globe-trotting The Contenders series kicks off next month in London; invitations went out today.
Our third annual The Contenders London returns Deadline to the Ham Yard Hotel for an all-day series of panels with the movers and shakers lining up to dominate the awards-season conversation during the next several months.
Throughout the invite-only event on Saturday, October 5, BAFTA, AMPAS and guild voters will meet the filmmakers and cast behind 19 of this year’s hottest movies and enjoy fine hospitality courtesy of breakfast sponsors Amazon and cocktail sponsors Netflix.
The two streamers are also bookending the day with their panels. Amazon will kick off the event with four of its movies: The Report, The Aeronauts, Honey Boy and Seberg. And Netflix will wrap things up with panels for The Two Popes, Marriage Story and The King.
They’re two of the...
Our third annual The Contenders London returns Deadline to the Ham Yard Hotel for an all-day series of panels with the movers and shakers lining up to dominate the awards-season conversation during the next several months.
Throughout the invite-only event on Saturday, October 5, BAFTA, AMPAS and guild voters will meet the filmmakers and cast behind 19 of this year’s hottest movies and enjoy fine hospitality courtesy of breakfast sponsors Amazon and cocktail sponsors Netflix.
The two streamers are also bookending the day with their panels. Amazon will kick off the event with four of its movies: The Report, The Aeronauts, Honey Boy and Seberg. And Netflix will wrap things up with panels for The Two Popes, Marriage Story and The King.
They’re two of the...
- 9/18/2019
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
It was a good night for HBO on night 2 of the Creative Arts Emmys. Game of Thrones and Chernobyl topped the list of winners winning 10 and seven trophies respectively while The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel scored six including acting wins for Jane Lynch and Luke Kirby. Antonia Blyth, Matt Grobar and Diane Haithman were backstage at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles for tonight’s ceremony to give us all the details from tonight’s ceremony.
The winners from tonight join Saturday night’s honorees which included National Geographic’s Free Solo as well as RuPaul’s Drag Race, The Simpsons and Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s ‘All In the Family’ And ‘The Jeffersons.’
Fxx will air the Creative Arts Emmys at 8 Pm Et Saturday, September 21. The Prime Time Emmys will air on Fox at 8 Pm Et/5 Pm Pt on September 22.
Read the live blog below...
The winners from tonight join Saturday night’s honorees which included National Geographic’s Free Solo as well as RuPaul’s Drag Race, The Simpsons and Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s ‘All In the Family’ And ‘The Jeffersons.’
Fxx will air the Creative Arts Emmys at 8 Pm Et Saturday, September 21. The Prime Time Emmys will air on Fox at 8 Pm Et/5 Pm Pt on September 22.
Read the live blog below...
- 9/15/2019
- by Antonia Blyth, Dino-Ray Ramos and Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The first night of the Creative Arts Emmys are underway and we have Antonia Blyth, Matt Grobar and Diane Haithman were on the ground at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles to report on all the winners coming out of the two-night ceremony before the Prime Time Emmys air on September 22.
Many iconic shows have end their run and Emmy staples like Game Of Thrones and Veep are vying for trophies at their final Emmy haul this weekend. 48 categories will be handed out tonight including Outstanding Animated Program, Outstanding Documentary Nonfiction Series, Outstanding Variety Special, Outstanding Structured Reality Program and others. The accolades will continue Sunday as they will give out 49 Creative Arts Emmys.
Saturday’s ceremony will include presenters Will Arnett (BoJack Horseman), Marsha Stephanie Blake (When They See Us), W. Kamau Bell (United Shades of America), Kate Chastain (Below Deck), Terry Crews (America’s Got Talent), Seth Green (Robot Chicken...
Many iconic shows have end their run and Emmy staples like Game Of Thrones and Veep are vying for trophies at their final Emmy haul this weekend. 48 categories will be handed out tonight including Outstanding Animated Program, Outstanding Documentary Nonfiction Series, Outstanding Variety Special, Outstanding Structured Reality Program and others. The accolades will continue Sunday as they will give out 49 Creative Arts Emmys.
Saturday’s ceremony will include presenters Will Arnett (BoJack Horseman), Marsha Stephanie Blake (When They See Us), W. Kamau Bell (United Shades of America), Kate Chastain (Below Deck), Terry Crews (America’s Got Talent), Seth Green (Robot Chicken...
- 9/14/2019
- by Antonia Blyth, Dino-Ray Ramos and Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Phoebe Waller-Bridge has opened up about her contribution to the forthcoming James Bond film, calling it “absolutely relevant now.” However, she has warned that it has to “grow” and “evolve” and the film has to “treat women properly,” even if Bond himself doesn’t.
The Fleabag creator, who adapted Killing Eve for television, told Deadline about her work polishing the script for the Cary Joji Fukunaga-directed film, which is due for release in 2020.
She has become only the second woman in Bond history to be credited on a script after Johanna Hardwood, who wrote on 1962’s Dr. No and 1963’s From Russia With Love.
“There’s been a lot of talk about whether or not [the Bond franchise] is relevant now because of who he is and the way he treats women,” she said. “I think that’s bollocks. I think he’s absolutely relevant now. It has just got to grow.
The Fleabag creator, who adapted Killing Eve for television, told Deadline about her work polishing the script for the Cary Joji Fukunaga-directed film, which is due for release in 2020.
She has become only the second woman in Bond history to be credited on a script after Johanna Hardwood, who wrote on 1962’s Dr. No and 1963’s From Russia With Love.
“There’s been a lot of talk about whether or not [the Bond franchise] is relevant now because of who he is and the way he treats women,” she said. “I think that’s bollocks. I think he’s absolutely relevant now. It has just got to grow.
- 5/31/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The 71st annual Writers Guild Awards are being handed out tonight in simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York. Deadline will be liveblogging the action here and updating the winners here as they are announced. Click on the link below for the full list of nominees.
Along with the hardware being handed out for best screenwriting of 2018, the big topic is the WGA’s ongoing tussle with the Association of Talents Agents. We’ll keep you posted on any mention of that tonight.
Up for the marquee Original Screenplay award are Green Book, Roma and Vice –– all of which also are vying for the Oscar next week — along with Eighth Grade and A Quiet Place. (The Academy’s list also includes The Favourite and First Reformed.) Whangling for the also-prestigious Adapted Screenplay trophy are BlacKkKlansman, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, If Beale Street Could Talk, A Star is Born and Black Panther.
Along with the hardware being handed out for best screenwriting of 2018, the big topic is the WGA’s ongoing tussle with the Association of Talents Agents. We’ll keep you posted on any mention of that tonight.
Up for the marquee Original Screenplay award are Green Book, Roma and Vice –– all of which also are vying for the Oscar next week — along with Eighth Grade and A Quiet Place. (The Academy’s list also includes The Favourite and First Reformed.) Whangling for the also-prestigious Adapted Screenplay trophy are BlacKkKlansman, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, If Beale Street Could Talk, A Star is Born and Black Panther.
- 2/18/2019
- by Dade Hayes, Matt Grobar, Antonia Blyth and Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
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