Antonia has contributed to Deadline and AwardsLine’s print magazines since 2014. A native Brit based in LA, prior to joining she covered West Coast entertainment for ELLE.com, and her work has been featured in The Guardian, UK Marie Claire and InStyle. She has written a New York Times bestselling non-fiction book and regularly appears on French television network TF1 as an entertainment expert.
Awkwafina and Zhao Shuzhen are the duo at the heart of Lulu Wang's The Farewell. Awkwafina is Billi, an Asian-American New Yorker returning to China for one last chance to see Nai Nai, her terminally-ill grandmother, played by Shuzhen. But there's a catch: the family have decided Nai Nai must not be told her diagnosis…
From her Lynchian beginnings in Blue Velvetto escaping an errant T-Rex in Jurassic Park, to becoming the superpower that is Renata Klein in Big Little Lies, Laura Dern has perhaps one of the broadest ranges of any actress in our time. And this season once again showcases her dynamism, as she digs into two vastly…
After following 2011's The Tree Of Life with a slew of more experimental projects, Terrence Malick has returned this year with his most successful film since. A Hidden Life, his second world war drama, stars August Diehl as Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter, who is taken from his wife Franziska (Valerie Pachner) and…
Apple TV+ wasted little time before entering the awards fray, giving a limited theatrical run to their wildlife doc The Elephant Queen. Narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofor and directed by award-winning British duo Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone, the film focuses on Athena, a matriarch elephant who will do everything in her…
Based on Bryan Stevenson's book of the same name, Destin Daniel Cretton’s film Just Mercy stars Jamie Foxx as wrongly-convicted death row prisoner Walter McMillian—a man without hope who is facing the electric chair when idealistic young lawyer Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) takes on his case. It's a harrowing and…
Marielle Heller's A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood has already been labeled a biopic, since, ostensibly, it tells the true story of children's TV host Mr. Rogers. Many were surprised, then, that Tom Hanks, who plays Mr. Rogers, is being considered for Best Supporting Actor, rather than the lead. But that's because…
There's a scene in James Mangold's Ford v Ferrarithat had TIFF audiences almost rolling in the aisles. Tracy Letts as Henry Ford II is persuaded by Matt Damon's Caroll Shelby to take Ford's latest racecar for a spin, but the bossman is vastly underprepared for the reality of 100mph. When the car finally stops, all…
Wrongly-convicted Death Row prisoner Walter McMillian may have tragically lost most of his life to a broken justice system, but McMillian's story lives on in both the memoir of his tireless lawyer, Bryan Stevenson, and now in the film it inspired: Destin Daniel Cretton's Just Mercy. Jamie Foxx plays McMillian—a man…
After two seasons, the fan furore around Big Little Lies shows little sign of waning, with repeated calls for a third go-round of the HBO limited series. One woman with the inside track on whether that will happen is Nicole Kidman, who not only gave an intricately-layered performance as her character Celeste Wright…
Lupita Nyong'o has a new appreciation for those characters in costume at amusement parks. Mainly because a few days before this interview, she was playing one of them at Universal Studios. It's not what you'd expect for an Oscar-winner, but such is Nyong'o's up-for-it attitude, she told Universal staff she'd be happy…
Louisa May Alcott's 19th century novel Little Women has proven as enduring as cinema itself: as well as two silent-movie adaptations, the story has been filmed four times since George Cukor's 1933 version, making Greta Gerwig's the fifth in less than 100 years.
To discuss the film, Gerwig came to Deadline's The…
Marielle Heller's new film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, about the mild-mannered TV host Mister Rogers, seems set to receive awards recognition for its sensitive portrayal of a
national hero and the real-life connection he formed with a journalist who interviewed him.
Appearing at Deadline's The Contenders…
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