No frontrunner! No host! No Trump jokes, most likely! And, after the Academy walked back every chance to shave running time—including presenting four categories during commercials—no chance of finishing in under three hours!

This was the 91st Academy Awards and Deadline was there to live blog it all. Mike Fleming and…

The 1970s-set Roma heads into the awards-season homestretch up for 10 Oscars, tying Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for the most for a non-English-language film. Since it won the Golden Lion at Venice, Alfonso Cuarón’s ravishing black-and-white drama was enough of a game-changer that it got Netflix to change its model a…

EXCLUSIVE: As screenwriter Tony McNamara landed in London this past weekend to make good on his BAFTA nomination for writing The Favourite with Deborah Davis, he was already having a pretty ‘Great’ weekend. On Friday he found out his new TV show The Great, about the life of Catherine the Great of Russia would be…

There can only be one winner, but each of the Best Picture nominees overcame creative, financial and logistical hurdles to get this close to the finish line. Here are their war stories.

Black Panther

Fifty years ago, the phrase 'Black Panther' carried more political baggage than it does today, immediately summoning up…

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts handed out its BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday, with Alfonso Cuaron’s Netflix movie Roma scoring the marquee Best Film honor at Royal Albert Hall. That wrapped a night that saw Fox Searchlight's The Favourite, which came in with a leading 12 nominations including Best Film…

What is cinema? It's a question Alfonso Cuarón has been compelled to answer for as long as he has been making films. Is it a grand theatrical presentation, carefully calibrated and shielded from a home entertainment audience for the longest time possible, or is it much more democratic than that; accessible and open? Is…

When Lorena Bobbitt famously cut off her husband's penis in the '90s, much of the resulting news coverage descended into "dick jokes", as Joshua Rofé, director of Amazon's documentary Lorena put it at Deadline's Sundance Studio.

But, inspired by a 2016 newspaper article about how the Bobbitt coverage had been the natio…

As of Saturday night in Los Angeles, Alfonso Cuarón can count a DGA award among the accolades piling up for his film Roma. Picking up the Best Feature Film prize, the director sealed the deal as the hottest candidate in the Best Director and Best Picture races at Oscar.

Speaking to Deadline backstage, he said the thing…

Alfonso Cuarón  took the top film honor tonight For Roma at the 71st Annual DGA Awards. Bo Burnham snagged the first-time director nod for Eighth Grade and Tim Wardle won for documentary feature for Three Identical Strangers.

Top TV awards went to Adam McKay for Succession, Bill Hader for Barry and Ben Stiller for Esc…

It's 1977 and the Son of Sam is on the loose in New York, but in Alistair Banks Griffin's The Wolf Hour, June is safely isolated in her Chinatown fifth-floor walk-up. Only the door buzzer is there to remind her of the outside world, as she contemplates her former life as an important figure in the counterculture.

While…

When Shia LaBoeuf was court-ordered to attend rehab following his 2017 arrest, he emerged having written a script that seemed like the stuff of fiction, only it wasn't. Growing up in a motel, a young…