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Contenders Film: The Nominees Complete Coverage
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.
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BAFTA Film Awards Analysis: Will Brits’ Predictable Winners List Mean Oscar Voters Follow Suit?
With Chloe Zhao's expected DGA win last night, and her film Nomadland taking the lion’s share of BAFTA wins today for Best Film, Director, Actress Frances McDormand, and Cinematography, the Searchlight film would seem to be an overwhelming favorite to repeat at the Oscars. Who would bet against a film that has swept…
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BAFTA Film Awards: ‘Nomadland’ Scoops Best Picture, Director, Actress & Cinematography – Full Winners List
UPDATE: Nomadland walked off with the lion's share of prizes at tonight's EE British Academy Film Awards, taking Best Film, Director, Actress and Cinematography. The Chloé Zhao-helmed Searchlight picture thus adds to its awards season momentum, and makes Zhao only the second woman ever to win BAFTA's directing prize…
BAFTA Supporting Actress Winner Yuh-Jung Youn Cracks Up David Oyelowo With “Snobbish Brits” Comment
Minari actress Yuh-Jung Youn received the biggest laugh of the night at the virtual BAFTAs this eve when she joked that she was happy to be crowned best supporting actress by the org's voters because Brits are "snobbish".
Receiving the award virtually from presenter David Oyelowo, a visibly shocked Yuh-Jung Youn also…
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Harry Kooperstein Dies: Emmy Winning Producer And Director Was 78
Harry Kooperstein, a director and producer who won 17 local Emmy Awards, including eight for his work on the annual Live From the Hollywood Bowl telecasts, died March 30 in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 78 and no cause of death was given in a report by the Desert Sun media outlet.
Kooperstein directed newscasts for…
‘Saturday Night Live’ Ratings Steady In Households, Slip In Demo With Host Carey Mulligan
Saturday Night Live's April 10 telecast, with Carey Mulligan as host, Kid Cudi as musical guest and appearances by Mulligan’s husband, Marcus Mumford, and Timothée Chalamet, drew a 3.6 household Live+Same Day rating in the 44 metered local markets and a 1.5 adults 18-49 rating in the 25 markets with local people…
‘Godzilla Vs. Kong’ Set To Profit During Pandemic At Global Box Office: Here’s How
Here’s something nobody was expecting during the pandemic at the global box office: An event film which is bound to profit.
Film finance sources have been telling us that as Legendary’s Godzilla vs. Kong hits $357.8M WW today, the pic is already set to bring cash back to Warner Bros. — an estimated $96.4M currently…
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China Winter Olympics Boycott Calls Are “Premature” Says Sec’y Of State
Secretary of State Antony Blinken danced around the notion of a 2022 China Winter Olympic boycott Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press, calling such talk “premature.”
The next Winter Olympics are slated for February 2022 in Beijing. Earlier this week, a spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry warned of an unspecified "robust…
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‘Godzilla Vs Kong’ Rises To $358M Worldwide; ‘Mortal Kombat’ Kicks Off With $11M Overseas – International Box Office
Refresh for latest…: Warner Bros/Legendary's Godzilla Vs Kong continues to dominate the global and international box office, now with a $288.3M cume offshore for $357.8M worldwide. It will soon cross Tenet globally and overseas. Domestically, it has overtaken Tenet to become the No. 1 grossing movie of the pandemic…
Oscar Campaigners Flock To Queens Drive-In As In-Person Screenings Resume Citywide Ahead Of Ballot Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: With New York City gradually emerging from the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, one film-biz sign of life is a series of Oscar-nominated movies hitting the city’s big screens.
Megaplexes and arthouses alike have been in reopening mode over the past month. In-person screenings for Zoomed-out Academy…
‘Godzilla Vs. Kong’ Stomping To $69.5M Today; Easily Top-Grossing Pic To Date At Domestic B.O. During Pandemic – Update
Sunday AM:  As expected, Warner Bros./Legendary’s Godzilla vs. Kong made up for its down second Friday ($3.88M, -67% off Good Friday) with a solid Saturday of $6.1M that was up close to 60%, which makes the pic’s second weekend $13.3M, -58%, for a running domestic total of $69.5M. That ease in weekend 2 would be…
Oscar Nominations 2021
View All Oscar Nominations 2021Here’s What You Need To Know About The Evolving Oscarcast
Oscar Noms Complete List: ‘Mank’ Leads With 10 Including Best Picture; Six Other Films With Six
Hammond Analysis: Oscars Spread Wealth In Historic Race That May Yet See A Few Twists And Turns
Snubs & Surprises: Regina King, Tom Hanks, Stacey Abrams, Spike Lee
The Battle Over The Filibuster Counters The Myth Of ‘Mr. Smith’
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. VA.) seemingly dashed any hopes of Democrats abolishing the filibuster anytime soon when he wrote last week that the legislative maneuver was a "critical tool" to protecting "our democratic form of government."
That's a far different view than that of former President  Barack Obama, who called…
‘Saturday Night Live’ Pays Tribute To Late Scribe Anne Beatts, DMX
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…
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