Pete, widely considered to be one of the preeminent awards analysts for both film and television, has for the past seven years been Deadline's Awards Columnist covering what is seemingly now the year-round Oscar and Emmy seasons. He is also Deadline's Chief Film Critic, having previously reviewed films for MovieLine, Boxoffice magazine, Backstage, Hollywood.com and Maxim. In addition to writing, Pete is also host of the year-round KCET Cinema Series, where he screens a selection of films prior to their theatrical release and interviews filmmakers. He previously held producing positions at Entertainment Tonight, Extra, Access Hollywood, The Arsenio Hall Show, The Martin Short Show and AMC Network and is the recipient of five Emmy nominations for writing.
It is hard to keep up with all the awards coming James Corden’s way. His CBS series The Late Late Show with James Corden just celebrated its fifth anniversary in March and over that time has racked up 21 Emmy nominations and seven wins in multiple categories from Variety Talk Series to Variety Special, Writing…
The celebrated director Mimi Leder, veteran of so many television and movie successes joins me today for this episode of my Deadline video series Behind The Lens. We really cover the waterfront of her remarkable career starting with her personal revelation that George Clooney was a “goddamn movie star” when she looked…
St. Louis Superman got nominated for an Oscar, now it is going for an Emmy in the same year.
Nominated for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 2020 Academy Awards, the short from MTV Documentary Films and Al Jazeera Witness, as well as being the first project brought to MTV by former HBO Documentary Films veteran…
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It has been pretty hard this unusual Emmy season to conduct this column as usual. It typically is made up of nifty little moments and conversations I have as I traverse industry events, Q&As, parties etc. Not this year. There…
In this week’s edition of our weekly Deadline’s TV Talk podcast we survey the field of Emmy’s most prestigious category , Best Drama Series, along with acting contenders in both lead and supporting races for Drama. As we note it has been a very strong year , despite the fact that the reigning champ, three- time Drama…
War movies have come in every stripe over the years — good ones and bad ones and in between — but I know the difference, and Rod Lurie’s Afghanistan-set The Outpost is top of the line. If exceptional works like The Hurt Locker and Dunkirk have defined what is good in the genre in recent years, this harrowing look at…
To put it mildly, Helena Bonham Carter is a real hoot. Don’t miss this one, folks.
Zooming in from England for this week’s episode of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, the veteran star and two-time Oscar nominee is in high spirits as we talk about her Emmy-buzzed current role as Princess Margaret in Seasons 3…
Carl Reiner, who died Monday night at age 98, set Twitter afire when news of his passing started to spread. You never know until someone is gone exactly what the impact of their life was on others. It seemed remarkable the number of people who talked about their own encounters with Reiner, the number of journalists…
Considering the worldwide phenomenon that Hamilton has become since its 2015 Broadway debut, it didn’t seem all that crazy to me when Deadline announced that Disney had paid $75 million for theatrical rights to the filmed version of the stage musical and that it would be a major release in theaters next year. However…
Two years ago, Nicole Kidman appeared on my Deadline video series, The Actor’s Side. Among other things we talked about her limited series, Big Little Lies. It was primarily about acting, that conversation, but what I also discovered was that Kidman has become just as prolific a producer with her company, Blossom…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has released its annual list of invitations to join the organization, and surveying the new class of Oscar voters it is clear they are aiming in a big way to continue erasing the stigma of not being inclusive, particularly in terms of women, international members and…
In light of daily protests following the death of George Floyd and others at the hand of police, it might not be the optimum time for a brutal cops-and-robbers action picture starring Mel Gibson. But Lionsgate is going against the tide and releasing Force of Nature this week on digital and VOD just in time for the…
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