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More than two and a half years after Gary Oldman took home the Oscar for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the Joe Wright-directed and Anthony McCarten-penned Darkest Hour, a History Channel writer is suing the actor, NBCUniversal and others connect to the movie for allegedly ripping off parts of his script. “[Ben…

UPDATED with videos: Gary Oldman wrapped up a wall-to-wall run as the Oscar favorite for Best Actor with a victory for playing Winston Churchill in Focus Features’ Darkest Hour on Sunday at the 90th Academy Awards. It was his first Oscar after being nominated only once before — for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in…

UPDATED at 11:45AM PT with more numbers and analysis. A handful of limited-release Best Picture nominees are going into tonight's awards with some box-office wind in their sails, placing most of tonight's contenders on par with most recent recipients of the top prize. All of the specialty Best Picture nominees still…

Pundits will probably look at today’s Outstanding Film BAFTA victory by Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri over its (at least nominally) more favored Fox Searchlight stablemate The Shape Of Water as perhaps a game-changing moment in this year’s still unsettled Best Picture Oscar race. Certainly it gives the…

UPDATED with complete list of winners, more details: Fox Searchlight’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri walked away with the Best Film prize and a leading five wins overall at the BAFTA Awards tonight at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The annual EE British Academy Film Awards were a Searchlight affair, with…

With the final voting about to begin for the Best Picture Oscar, Deadline looks at the challenges and the hard road for each of the nine finalists. First up was Awardsline cover film Get Out. Here are the rest of the films contending for Oscar’s top prize. Call Me by Your Name The exhilaration of each year's crop of…

UPDATED at 11:45AM PT with more numbers and analysis. The specialty film marketplace saw an uptick in the number of releases and box office gross, though most ticket-buyers went for Oscar contenders continuing to aim for a nomination bounce. Magnolia bundled this year's group of Oscar-Nominated Short Films, teaming…

In retrospect, it seems surprising, to put it mildly, that, for 25 years, the BAFTAs seemed to turn their back on the “B”—for British—that this Academy for Film and Television Arts had so keenly wanted to celebrate at its inception in 1947. Yet that's exactly what happened in 1967; after two decades, the Best British…

EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features’ and Working Title’s six-time Oscar nominee and nine-time BAFTA nominee Darkest Hour has crossed the $100M mark worldwide. Directed by Joe Wright, the WW II drama has landed $105.6M globally through Thursday including $46.4M domestically and $59.2M at the international box office. The Gary Old…

Receiving two Oscar nominations this year, for Beauty and the Beast and Joe Wright's Darkest Hour—and sharing this accomplishment with costume designer Jacqueline Durran—production designer Sarah Greenwood is being recognized once again for two projects that couldn't have been more challenging or more different in…

UPDATED at 11:25AM PT. Oscar nominees dominated the specialty box office over the weekend, with Darkest Hour and Lady Bird hitting new milestones, and The Shape of Water showing the biggest nomination bump. With 13 nominations, including Best Picture, Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water showed the biggest Oscar…

Gary Oldman, who spent more than 200 hours in the makeup chair to become the iconic British politician Winston Churchill, and at the film’s end had carried around half of his body weight with the prosthetics that added 10 pounds each day, not surprisingly said Darkest Hour provided his most physically challenging…