Joe Utichi

Editor, AwardsLine

Joe oversees Deadline’s print magazine for the Oscar and Emmy seasons, as well as its special “Disruptors” edition for the Cannes Film Festival. He has been with Deadline since 2012 and serves as emcee for Deadline’s The Contenders events. Prior to joining, his work regularly appeared in his native UK, for outlets including The Sunday Times and The Guardian. He has also worked extensively in film and television, producing EPK and production notes and serving 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 Partnership: How The Mother-Son Bond Between Sophia Loren And Director Edoardo Ponti Led To The Screen Icon’s Most Moving Role In ‘The Life Ahead’

It has been 11 years since Sophia Loren, the great Italian star and one of the only surviving icons of Hollywood's Golden Age, last graced the screen. And longer still since she last took a leading role. After her Oscar-winning heyday in the '50s and '60s, Loren turned to the only passion that could match her love for…

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‘The Crown’ Cast & Crew On The Toughest Scenes Of Season 4 — Deadline Virtual Screening Series

Of all the challenges inherent in taking on the role of a divisive figure like former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of Netflix’s The Crown, Gillian Anderson says the show’s complex schedule, married with the intensive duels of dialogue she shares with Olivia Colman’s Queen Elizabeth II…

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Jodie Foster Says ‘The Mauritanian’ Reflects The Residual Effects Of America’s Post-9/11 Transformation

Though she has starred in some of the most indelible movies in cinema history—Taxi Driver, The Silence of the Lambs, The Accused—and won two Oscars for doing so, Jodie Foster's output has slowed in recent years. And it is not a paucity of roles, she says, but rather a decision to become more selective about what she…

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The Burning Question That Drove David Fincher’s Decades-Long Journey To Make ‘Mank’

David Fincher turns Netflix homes into 1940s movie houses with his latest opus, Mank, which explores the life and frustrations of Citizen Kane's screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, as he works his way through the draft of what will become Orson Welles' seminal directorial debut. With its title role imbued with Mankiewic…

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The 21 Most Influential Films Of The 21st Century, So Far

This has been a trying year for movies, with the closing of cinemas in the pandemic, and a pivot by many filmmakers and stars to streaming service projects. As we wait for the boom times to return once a Covid vaccine establish herd immunity and movie theaters fill again, it seemed worthwhile to reflect on what a…

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Film Review: Pixar’s ‘Soul’ Recalls The Lofty Ambitions Of The Studio’s Finest

There are moments, watching Disney-Pixar's latest release Soul, in which the ambition of the Emeryville-based animation house astounds in ways it hasn't quite achieved in years. Moments of abstract expression that feel entirely unique to its new film, and yet wholly in keeping with the DNA that has made Pixar the…

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Millie Bobby Brown & Harry Bradbeer On Crafting A Modern Superheroine In The Victorian-Era ‘Enola Holmes’ – Q&A

EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Springer's book series, The Enola Holmes Mysteries, posits a simple idea: rather than re-tread the ground of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories for the thousandth time, what if Sherlock had a little sister whose adventures captured the spirit of the classic detective's investigations from…

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The Good, The Bad And The ‘Schitt’ Stirring: Emmy Night’s Highlights And Lowlights

After last year's disastrous live Emmy show, it took a global pandemic and the complete evisceration of the rulebook for the Television Academy's grandest night of the year to get its groove back. As host Jimmy Kimmel delivered his opening monologue to an empty theater, and as stories of hundreds of camera kits…

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Deadline’s Primetime Emmys Live Blog

After a long Emmys season that actually began before the worldwide coronavirus pandemic shut down life and awards shows as we know it, it is coming to an end tonight as the Primetime Emmy show hands out statuettes in 23 different categories – virtually. That's right, no red carpet, no live audience, no…

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Sep 20, 2020 4:30 pm
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How 20 Years Of Friendship Helped Colin Firth And Stanley Tucci Find The Romance Of ‘Supernova’

Harry Macqueen’s Supernova, which makes its world premiere bow at the San Sebastián Film Festival next week, is a film founded in contrasts. A simple, intimate love story that follows a middle-aged gay couple, Sam and Tusker, on a road trip through England’s Lake District as they get to grips with Tusker’s diagnosis…

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Leah Remini Dedicates ‘Scientology And The Aftermath’ Emmy To “Those Who Told Us Their Stories”

Leah Remini’s A&E doc series, Scientology and the Aftermath, collected its second Emmy win tonight for its third and final season, with the EP and star expressing gratitude for the show’s recognition in its final year. Handed out as part of the first night of a series of five Creative Arts Emmys livestreams, Remini…

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‘What We Do In The Shadows’ EP Stefani Robinson: “I Can’t Believe We’re Getting Away With It” – Contenders TV

Just as Taika Waititi's low-budget New Zealand-based horror comedy What We Do in the Shadows became a worldwide word-of-mouth favorite in 2014, FX's small-screen spinoff has found its audience growing in an exponential way too. This year nominated for an impressive eight awards at the Emmys, including one for…

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