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.
Nominations for the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards were announced this morning in 124 categories. Here are some reactions from nominees.
Comedy SeriesAmy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino,The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
The respective creator and executive producer behind The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Amy Sherman-Palladino…
"It's not bad, you know, can't complain, mustn't grumble," deadpanned Charlie Brooker at the news of Black Mirror "Bandersnatch" picking up a pair of nominations this morning for Outstanding Television Movie and Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media with a Scripted Program.
"I'm going to go further…
The fever pitch of thought and opinion circulating on Big Little Lies' second season, as well as the Emmy success of its debut rollout, might make it look like an obvious lock for this year's list of nominations. But its premiere date of June 9 counted it out of Emmy's consideration window, which closes on May 31st…
Craig Mazin's five-part adaptation of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 begins with Jared Harris's Valery Legasov taking his own life. It is, says Harris, the inciting mystery in a story that will examine both the human cost of the event, and the social and political fallout. Freshly wrapped on HBO, the series…
The path of Emmy history is littered with many injustices. Take, for example, Steve Carell's failure, despite five nominations, to earn a trophy for playing Michael Scott on The Office. Or how about The Wire, which somehow, despite becoming one of the definitive exemplars of peak television, only ever mustered a…
Joe Talbot won the Best Director prize at January's Sundance Film Festival for his debut feature The Last Black Man in San Francisco. But, as he explained when I sat down with him and his lead actor Jimmie Fails, on whom the film's story is based, it took a village.
A love letter to the titular city, the film deals…
Ricky Gervais rejects the amphitheater of Netflix's London screening room—complete with cushions and throws branded with the name of its myriad shows—as the venue for our interview. Too cold. Too grand a room for two people talking. Instead, we set up in what can best be described as a gussied-up broom closet. There…
Quentin Tarantino made a surprise appearance at today’s Palm Dog awards in Cannes, the annual celebration of the best dog performances in the festival selection. His Once Upon a Time in Hollywood features blockbuster bowser Brandy, owned by Brad Pitt’s Cliff Booth character in the film.
First awarded by journalist…
Given that he’s known for his work in documentary film, it perhaps comes as little surprise that Werner Herzog’s latest narrative feature has been fooling critics in Cannes into thinking it’s observed truth. Certainly, Family Romance, LLC, which is set in Japan, blurs the lines: it tells the story of the principal of…
As the debate rages about whether a film released on a streaming platform can ever be considered cinema, Netflix this year proved that there was even more to its tech than any traditional TV and film definitions could encompass. When the team behind Black Mirror surprised with “Bandersnatch”—an interactive…
Completing the third part of an unexpected trilogy delving into the darker side of fame, Asif Kapadia’s Diego Maradona premiered last night on the Croisette, even if its subject, in ill health, couldn’t make it into Cannes. That Maradona is alive at all—that he has lived long enough to find his second —might be the…
American Un Certain Regard entry The Climb has fast become one of the hits of this year’s Cannes, generating a raft of reviews so good it’s like they’d been written by the filmmakers themselves. No need for that, though, because Michael Angelo Covino’s directorial debut feature, which he co-wrote with his co-lead Kyle…
