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.
Some might feel that it manipulates your heartstrings, but writer-director Todd Robinson’s The Last Full Measure is the real deal, an effective Vietnam War movie told in flashback, that all too sadly shows how easy it is to forget who true heroes when politics gets in the way.
In a time where the current resident of…
EXCLUSIVE: Viggo Mortensen is returning to the Sundance Film Festival for the first time since 2016 when Captain Fantastic made a big splash and led eventually to a Best Actor Oscar nomination for the star. This time however he is adding director and screenwriter to his resume, with his behind the camera debut, Falling…
EXCLUSIVE: Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating adaptation of Charles Brandt’s 2004 book I Heard You Paint Houses, later retitled The Irishman for the film, has been a fixture this awards season, and now you can watch the first table read for the project from nearly seven years ago. Check it out above.
It is fascinating…
A record 64 women have been nominated for Academy Awards across all branches this year. Eight of them will be joining the annual Women’s Panel of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The popular event moderated every year by Madelyn Hammond will take place on Saturday January 25th at the Lobero Theatre …
As one Oscar strategist who definitely has a dog in this hunt emailed me Sunday night after the SAG Awards show, “Now we’re having us some fun.” Indeed. What an interesting weekend as far as the Oscar race goes.
With three key guilds weighing in, the verdict on momentum is mixed, but it is clear two films — 1917and Pa…
Another major milestone in this shortened awards season is over: The 26th annual SAG Awards were handed out tonight at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Check out the live blog below to see how Deadline’s writers and editors saw the show as it played out.
Bong Joon Ho’s Palme d’Or-winning South Korean film Parasite…
A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit.
With Monday’s Oscar nominations in the rear view mirror now, and the nominees lunch just a week away, this shortened season is getting shorter and shorter. In fact, it feels like it is moving like a freight train now with one guild show after another…
I was a fan of Eddie Murphy’s attempts to put a contemporary spin on the 100-year-old Hugo Lofting children’s book Dr. Dolittle in both its 1998 original and 2001 sequel. I even confess to really liking the critically bashed 1967 musical version starring Rex Harrison that still managed to nab a Best Picture…
It has been 17 years since Bad Boys II and a quarter-century since the original Bad Boys in 1995. Michael Bay directed both of them, making his film debut on the original. But he’s not back for this long-awaited and long-in-development third edition of the franchise starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence as Miami…
Today, the Motion Picture Academy nominated nine films for the Best Picture Oscar, and I have reviewed all of them here at Deadline over the past few months.
To say the Academy and I are pretty much on the same page as far as the best movies of 2019 is an understatement. Of the nine nominees, seven also appear on my ow…
A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit.
After the ABC announcement this week of a second year in a row with no traditional Oscar host, I happened to be on the phone talking with a former Oscar show producer. He said it was getting to the point where no performer is going to want to commit…
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