On Sunday you read Nikki Finke’s live-snark of the Oscars, which staked out a fairly clear position on how she felt about the show (sample: “How can everyone associated with tonight have such awful taste in material?”). Here’s an alternate view by Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond (spoiler alert: he liked host…

Deadline Hollywood Columnist Pete Hammond talks with ENTV's Brian Corsetti about who he thinks will capture Oscar's biggest prizes: Best Picture and Best Director. One film has dominated the precursor awards, but its director/star can't win for director, leaving a race between two frontrunners whose outcome could…

Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond talks with ENTV's Brian Corsetti about his picks for likely winners in the four Oscar acting categories. All the precursor awards suggest that a favorite has largely locked up the win in two categories, Pete says. But the other two categories remain wide open, particularly the…

Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond talks with ENTV's Brian Corsetti about his picks for the likely winners in the hotly contested Oscar races for Best Original and Best Adapted screenplays. With scripts for several highly regarded Best Picture nominees duking it out, Pete has a dark-horse candidate he thinks may…

Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond talks with ENTV's Brian Corsetti about what pic he thinks is likely to nab the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, a category dominated this year by Disney-made films. Can one of the three stop-motion animated nominees grab the gold, or will it be the computer-animated Wreck-It Ralph…

Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond talks with ENTV’s Brian Corsetti about his pick to win the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Nominees include four powerful issue-oriented films and one that tracks a long-lost musical star. The winner, Pete says, likely will be not only the year’s best documentary but one of…

Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond talks about his picks for likely winners in several of the more technically oriented categories including cinematography, editing, sound design and sound mixing. For most of them, Pete says, he expects one film to scoop up several victories. Related: Best Director, Picture…

Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond talks with ENTV's Brian Corsetti about his Oscar picks for three “design and style” categories: Production Design, Hair and Makeup, and Costume Design. Hint: think period movies. Watch the video on YouTube Related: Best Director, Picture Picks Picks For Acting Categories Origina…

Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond talks with ENTV’s Brian Corsetti about this Saturday’s “The Contenders” event at the Landmark Theatre in West LA. Pete discusses the Media Moguls panel of studio chiefs; how the new Oscar nomination schedule will challenge some late-arriving films; and which films and…

The phone-hacking scandal that has rocked News Corp's UK print assets last year looks set to stay in the news for a good long while as court cases move forward. Late last week, shareholder groups in the UK, U.S. and Australia began rattling the cages ahead of the company’s annual shareholder meeting seeking to break Ru…

Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond and AwardsLine Editor Christy Grosz visit with ENTV host Melana Scantlin to discuss the big surprises in this year’s Emmy Awards, including Homeland’s sweep of top Drama categories, Jon Cryer’s Comedy Actor win and Mad Men’s record shutout. They also ask, could the Television…

Several movies that premiered during the Venice, Telluride and Toronto film festivals over the past month or so are already earning serious Oscar buzz as the movie awards season has officially kicked off, Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond tells ENTV. Check out Pete’s thoughts on what films have bolted to…