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Everything Everywhere All At Once completed its awards-season victory march on Sunday night, taking home seven trophies at the 95th annual Academy Awards, including Best Picture. That was the biggest haul for a Best Picture winner since Slumdog Millionaire‘s eight Oscars in 2009. Producer Jonathan…

The Oscars is the greatest promotional event ever created for movies, and this year there’s a lot worth promoting. The 2022 crop of Best Picture nominees offer something for everyone, from action-packed blockbusters like Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water to the obligatory musical biopic…

For the first time since 2020, just before Covid dealt a devastating blow to the industry, exhibitors and awards season, it feels like this year's Oscar show may return to some sense of normalcy. And with box office hits mixed with acclaimed indies among the 10 Best Picture nominees, this could be the…

Hugh Hudson, whose first feature directing effort Chariots of Fire won four Academy Awards including Best Picture, has died, according to a statement from his family obtained by the BBC. He was 86. Hudson began his career making documentaries and television commercials, which he continued to do even…

In the wake of the breathtaking Avatar: The Way of Water soaring past the $2 billion global gross mark, the James Cameron-directed epic scored a best picture nomination, along with noms for production design, sound and visual effects. The snub of Cameron’s monumental achievement in the best director…

When Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht left Sony Pictures Television in 2017 to steer Apple's film and TV fortunes, few doubted they would give the tech giant's upstart content company a beachhead on the small screen. During their 12 years at Sony, they hatched hits like Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and Rescue…

AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron said there's room for both cinemas and streamers in the current marketplace and the latter would benefit from wider theatrical release of films. He made the comments to CNBC after Apple made history last night with Coda's Best Picture Oscar win. "I've been saying for years that the…

After several years in which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences vacillated between eight or nine Best Picture nominees, Oscar has returned to a set number of 10 films for its top prize. The whole idea of doubling the amount from five to 10 came about in 2010 to encourage voters to select a broader range…

As we approach the 95th Academy Awards on March 12th, Deadline looks back at the films that took home Best Picture since 1929.

Every year at the Cannes Film Festival there is a critics' favorite. Last year, it was Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car, a loose adaptation of three stories from Haruki Murakami's 2014 compendium Men Without Women, that stars Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yūsuke Kafuku, an actor and theater director dealing with a tragic…

Each of this year's Best Picture Oscar nominees has survived a journey to cross the finish line, before earning the Academy's consideration. Here's how they came together. Deadline's Contenders Film: The Nominees Streaming Site Belfast Writer-director Kenneth Branagh began work on Belfast at the beginning of 2020…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday revealed the 276 feature films that are eligible for consideration at the 94rd Oscars, which are set to air live March 27 on ABC from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. The number is 90 fewer than last year’s 366, but this year’s eligibility period was only 10…