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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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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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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Emmys: Where’s My Show? Why New Favorites Like ‘I May Destroy You’ Aren’t Nominated In 2020, And How COVID-19 Fallout Will Linger

It’s the jarring thought many face each year on Emmy nominations day as shows receive their just plaudits in the noms: what happened to that great show I was just watching? The one everyone’s talking about right now. Why isn’t it nominated? It’s easy to forget that Emmy’s eligibility window comes to a close on May 31…

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Kerry Washington Paid Tribute To Black Lives Lost To Injustice As She Played A Grieving Mother In Christopher Demos-Brown’s ‘American Son’

It has been a busy 12 months for Kerry Washington, with a key part in Hulu's Little Fires Everywhere, a directorial stint on HBO's Insecure, and a exec producer role on Sundance doc The Fight occupying her time. And while her role in Little Fires Everywhere contines to draw praise, it is only one performance of hers…

'Little Fires Everywhere' and 'American Son'

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What ‘Succession’s Rebel Son Jeremy Strong Learned From Working With Daniel Day-Lewis, And How Kendall Roy Finally Became A Killer

The second season of Succession ends with a bang for Jeremy Strong's Kendall Roy, the troubled second son of a Murdoch-inspired media dynasty built by his imposing father, Logan, played by Brian Cox. Kendall has been selected by his father to become the family's sacrificial lamb, as a crisis threatens to engulf the…

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Peter Morgan And Cast On The Multi-Generational Appeal Of ‘The Crown’: “The Queen Is Part Of Our Lives”

When it first premiered in 2016, Peter Morgan's Netflix series The Crown was an instant smash. Aiming to tell the epic story of Queen Elizabeth II's record-breaking spell as Britain's longest-serving monarch, starting with her marriage in 1947 and seeing her reign through to the earliest 20th Century, it caught the…

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Gillian Anderson’s Near Miss With ‘Sex Education’ And The Nerves That Set In Playing Margaret Thatcher in ‘The Crown’: “My Heart Never Beat So Fast”

Gillian Anderson is taking lockdown in her stride. "I'm an isolator," she tells me over a Zoom video from her home in London. "So, it suits me just fine. I'm not quite ready to be released into the big, bad world." It might seem an odd admission for an actress who has loomed so large in the public consciousness for…

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