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Deadline on Monday launched its streaming site for Contenders Film: The Nominees, featuring all the panels from Saturday’s virtual event the put the awards-season spotlight on 18 nominated films from 11 studios and streamers. A total of 45 stars and creatives plugged in from around the world to help guide the…

Designing the costumes for Emma, the Autumn de Wilde-directed adaptation of Jane Austen's classic period novel, was a balance between staying true to the era (the early 1800s) while leaving room for some creativity and artistic license, says Oscar-nominated costume designer Alexandra Byrne. "To design a period film…

Given the seismic impact of the #MeToo movement on the worldwide film industry, it was only a matter of time before the issue formed the basis of a movie. Emerald Fennell's Promising Young Woman stars Carey Mulligan as Cassie, a young college dropout whose life has been scarred by a mysterious trauma that claimed the…

It goes without saying that when performer lands the role of a cultural icon, there is a certain amount of pressure. Oscar-nominated actress Andra Day immediately felt it, when she found out she was going to play the legendary Billie Holiday in Lee Daniels' The United States vs. Billie Holiday. "It was all fear for…

Skye Fitzgerald’s experience making films about human rights issues in the Middle East prepared him for one practical aspect of making Hunger Ward. “There was only ever going to be one way we were going to be able to shoot this film, and that was by being really, really small,” the director said during a session at…

Based on Jiu Yuexi's book In His Youth, In Her Beauty, the Oscar-nominated Better Days follows Nian (Zhou Dongyu), who is faced with constant bullying from her peers at school. She eventually crosses paths with small-time criminal Bei (Jackson Yee), but before they can retreat into a world of their own they are thrown…

Following the devastating 2015 fire at the Colectiv nightclub in Romania, Collective director Alexander Nanau set out to undercover why the victims of the fire were dying at alarming rates months after the incident. What he uncovered was a deep network of corruption. “It continued to shock us. I understood pretty…

Any time you get an Oscar nomination it’s exciting, but at the end of the day when one of Hollywood’s biggest stars is singing your praises for your work on their project, its hard to beat that feeling. “It was very gratifying for Tom [Hanks] to come out with that statement, not just because he the star of the movie…

"The heart of the movie became these two little girls, representing two different views of femininity and attitudes towards females in that time period," Wolfwalkers co-director and producer Tomm Moore said of the characters of Robyn Goodfellowe and Mebh Óg MacTíre in the Apple TV+ Oscar-nominated animated film. "I…

About as far from a typical Oscar contender as you could imagine, the indie Sound of Metal has nonetheless proved to be a genuine long-distance runner since it debuted a year and a half ago at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival. Few would have guessed that an intense, up-close study of a heavy metal drummer who suddenly…

When it premiered last September at the Venice Film Festival, Regina King's directorial debut One Night In Miami was an early frontrunner for awards. Oscar-nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Song and Best Supporting Actor, the film is based on the acclaimed play by Kemp Powers, which tells a…

Sacha Baron Cohen pointed out during Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees all-day event a unique distinction of his second Borat movie, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. "Only a couple of sequels have ever been nominated [at the Oscars]. One was The Godfather Part II,” he said of the fact that not only his 2006 original…