Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees on Saturday showcased 18 Oscar-nominated films and individuals hailing from 11 studios and streamers. A total of 45 stars and creatives participated in our first-ever post-noms film event. Click above to read about all of today’s panels, and check back Monday when we launch the video streaming site for the event.
Tonight, Saturday Night Live paid photographic tribute to Anne Beatts and DMX, both of whom died this week.
Beatts, one of the late-night sketch show’s original writers, died on Wednesday at the age of 74. Her cause of death was not disclosed.
Beginning her career in comedy writing at National Lampoon magazine, Beatts…
Saturday Night Live took shots at films like Ammonite, Portrait of A Lady on Fire and The World to Come in a sketch featuring Carey Mulligan and Heidi Gardner as secret lovers.
The sketch, which took on a trailer format, called out a common trend featured in recent lesbian stories. While the recent titles have…
Tonight on SNL, Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che weighed in on new allegations made against their “favorite Florida congressman.”
“Matt Gaetz is back in the news. But this time, it's good,” said Jost. “I'm kidding, it's still the sex stuff.”
Reportedly, Jost noted, Gaetz—”who looks like all the dudes…
The cold open of Saturday Night Live satirized the differing perceptions of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged in the death of George Floyd, including the assumption among white people that justice actually will be served.
The skit featured the news program Eye on Minnesota and…
Tonight, Carey Mulligan made her hosting debut on Saturday Night Live, talking in her opening monologue about how nice it is to be out of the house.
“Oh my goodness. It's so wonderful to be here. They just told me I'm the first English person to ever host this show,” she joked, “and as I'm saying that out loud, I'm…
During this past year of virtual awards ceremonies, it’s not often that we’ve had a poignant moment to truly pause, reflect and be moved.
That emotional moment came tonight during the DGA’s streamed 73rd ceremony when industry icon Paris Barclay was bestowed with the guild’s Honorary Life Member Award by Ava…
Last summer, Netflix comedy Big Mouth proved a change leader in the world of animation, following its decision to recast a key voice role, for the sake of more authentic representation. In June, actress Jenny Slate announced that she would be stepping back from voicing the half-Black, half-Jewish character known as…
Twenty years after winning a DGA award for The West Wingin the Dramatic Series category, guild president Thomas Schlamme found himself winning again tonight for the Aaron Sorkin series in the Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Specials slot.
Schlamme won for directing the HBO Max Oct. 15 reunion A West Wing Special to Benefit…
Saturday Night Live director Don Roy King continued to have a lock on the DGA award category for Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Regularly Scheduled Programming, taking home his sixth guild trophy in the category tonight; his seventh DGA award overall.
Outside of this category, King won in the…
DGA president Thomas Schlamme opened tonight’s virtual DGA Awards show with a message to members of hope for better days ahead, and pride in the accomplishments of the Guild and its members during these difficult times.
"Even under the challenges of this pandemic that raged across the globe leaving so much loss in its…
