Pete, widely considered to be one of the pre-eminent awards analysts for both film and television, has for the past 11 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, as well as Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide for which he was a contributing editor. In addition to writing, Pete is also host of the KCET Cinema Series and the weekly KCET television series "Must See Movies." He previously held producing positions at "Entertainment Tonight", "Extra," "Access Hollywood," "The Arsenio Hall Show," "The Martin Short Show" and AMC Networks and is the recipient of five Emmy nominations for writing. Pete is only the second journalist to have received the Publicists Guild of America’s Press Award twice, in 1996 and 2013.
Nick Antosca is the creator, executive producer, and writer/showrunner for Peacock’s twisty limited series, A Friend of the Family, a true-crime story that seems stranger than fiction. It focuses on Robert Berchtold (played chillingly by Jake Lacy), a…
A column chronicling conversations and events during award seasons.
Welcome to a special edition of Notes on the Season — Emmy Season, that is.
Well if you think the Writers Guild strike and looming possible actions by the DGA and SAG/AFTRA are…
If the title feels familiar you would not be wrong. The word “boogeyman” has been the subject of numerous movies all using the same moniker, at least ten on iMDB database before I stopped counting, but all of them dated post 1973 when the horror master Stephen King first published his 8-page short story…
Paul Walter Hauser has already won both a Critics Choice Award and Golden Globe for his chilling turn as serial killer Larry Hall in Apple TV+’s limited series, Black Bird. There is a lot of Emmy buzz on this one as well, and that shouldn’t be surprising for…
Tony Gilroy entered the Star Wars galaxy as a credited writer (he came in later in the shoot) for the stand-alone 2016 hit movie, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Now he has taken it much further as showrunner, head writer and executive producer of the Disney+…
At least once, I can say the winners of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival competition are actually the right ones. Maybe not exactly in the order I would have put them, but still, out of the 21 movies competing, it is hard to argue about almost all of the…
UPDATED with latest: The Cannes Film Festival kicked off this year with opening-night movie Jeanne du Barry, and concluded Saturday evening with Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fallscooping the Palme d’Or. Deadline was on the ground to watch all the key films. Here is a compilation of our reviews from the…
Marion Cotillard has played all kinds of challenging roles in her career, most notably her Oscar winning turn as Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, and her Oscar nominated performance in the Dardenne Brothers‘ Two Days And One Night, among many others. But I tend…
A Chimera is something one tries to achieve but alas, never manages to find. It is the heart and soul of a quest in life, in different ways, for the cast of characters in writer/director Alice Rohrwacher’s beautiful new film La Chimera premiering today as one of the last entries in competition at the 2023…
amFAR, the organization founded by the late Dr. Mathilda Krim and Dame Elizabeth Taylor (the International founder), dedicated to funding AIDS research since 1985, held its annual Cannes Gala at the Hotel du Cap tonight as it has done for the past 29 years…
Sure, she is Elvis Presley’s granddaugher and Lisa Marie Presley’s daughter, but Riley Keough has in the past few years established herself with a solid acting career in her own right and her own name, one that continues to shine right up to her current…
The very first winner of the Palme d’Or in 1955 was future Best Picture Oscar winner Marty, which starred Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair as two lonely middle-age adults beginning a tentative relationship in search of love. Before it was called the Palme d’Or, the top Cannes prize known then as the Grand…