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Joe Utichi

Executive Awards Editor

Joe oversees Deadline’s awards coverage, including its dedicated print magazine for the Oscar and Emmy seasons, AwardsLine. He also edits Deadline's special “Disruptors” edition for the Cannes Film Festival and serves as the emcee for its Contenders events. He has been aboard since 2012. Prior to joining, his work regularly appeared in his native UK, for outlets including The Sunday Times and The Guardian, and around the world. He has also worked extensively in film and television, producing EPK and production notes and working as a unit publicist. He is a member of BAFTA and has sat on multiple juries for the BAFTA Film Awards.

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The Long Road To Oscar: The Journey Of Each Best Picture Nominee

Each of this year's Best Picture nominees has survived a journey to cross the finish line, before earning the Academy's consideration. Here's how they came together. The Father Playwright Florian Zeller's The Father enjoyed several award-winning runs on the stage before it made its evolution to film, but first-time…

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How ‘Sound Of Metal’ Changed Everything For Riz Ahmed, Darius Marder & Paul Raci, Even Before It Earned Six Oscar Nominations

Darius Marder's Sound of Metal went into 2019's Toronto International Film Festival without a distributor. Now, a year-and-a-half on, it's a six-time Oscar nominee and perhaps the most hard-fought of all of this year's crop of Best Picture candidates. Joe Utichi meets Marder and stars Riz Ahmed and Paul Raci to take…

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How ‘One Night In Miami’ Writer Kemp Powers Turned History To His Advantage – Contenders Film: The Nominees

When it premiered last September at the Venice Film Festival, Regina King's directorial debut One Night In Miami was an early frontrunner for awards. Oscar-nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Song and Best Supporting Actor, the film is based on the acclaimed play by Kemp Powers, which tells a…

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‘Mank’ Team On Bringing Old Hollywood Back To Life: “It Was A Tricky Tightrope” – Contenders Film: The Nominees

Anyone preparing to work with David Fincher knows the legendarily fastidious director doesn't do anything by halves, and those who signed up for his 10-time Oscar-nominated Hollywood homage Mank were not disappointed by his attention to detail. Filmed in luminous black and white and starring Gary Oldman, the film…

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The Film That Lit My Fuse: ‘The Trial Of The Chicago 7’s Frank Langella

The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences, and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions…

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Walls Close In On The Golden Globes As NBCUniversal Speaks Up – Commentary

What a week it’s been for the embattled HFPA, as Hollywood’s personal publicists banded together in a rare show of unity, demanding change and threatening to hit the group where it hurts most by denying it access to the glitterati of film and television. Ava DuVernay took to Twitter to recall an HFPA press conference…

NBCUniversal Weighs In On Globes Controversy

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Carey Mulligan And Emerald Fennell Reflect On Oscar Noms For ‘Promising Young Woman’ As Violence Against Women Leads Headlines

Five Oscar nominations this morning for Promising Young Woman place Emerald Fennell’s searing and darkly comic drama about a woman avenging her friend after a sexual assault among the frontrunners for this year’s Academy Awards. For Fennell and Best Actress nominee Carey Mulligan, it’s a moment of celebration, but…

Carey Mulligan in 'Promising Young Woman'

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Riz Ahmed Becomes First Muslim Nominated For Best Actor With ‘Sound Of Metal’: “We Belong, We’re Included, We Matter”

Riz Ahmed has become the first Muslim nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the Academy Awards for Sound of Metal, not long after Mahershala Ali made his own history with two Best Supporting Actor wins in 2017 and 2019. And for the UK-born star, reflecting on his nomination this morning, it’s a humbling…

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The Film That Lit My Fuse: Screen Icon Sophia Loren, Star Of ‘The Life Ahead’

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In Conversation: Sophia Loren And Frank Langella, Two Titans Of Screen And Stage, Look Back On Their Predestined Drive To Perform

When Netflix suggested I might like to preside over a conversation between Sophia Loren and Frank Langella, two titans of the screen and stage, it felt churlish to turn the opportunity down. They both appear in films handled by the streamer this year; Loren makes her return to screens after more than a decade away in T…

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The Golden Globes Is Beyond Fixing And The HFPA’s Time Is Up – Commentary

For all intents and purposes, Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony was an imitation of life; stars dressed up for “red carpet” pictures from homes and hotel suites around the world, before logging onto a Zoom meeting to hear the results. Even the show's hosts were in different cities, interacting awkwardly around broadcast…

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Deadline’s Golden Globes Live Blog

The 78th Golden Globes are getting underway now on NBC. As the first nationally televised awards show of this very strange and unique season, the Globes will be closely watched for their results in both motion picture and television categories. Often a reliable indicator of the way Oscar winds are blowing, the show…