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While Nomadland picked up Best Picture at the Critics Choice a couple of weeks back—a pretty reliable Oscar top prize indicator—at Sunday night’s SAG, it wasn’t even nominated in that category. Instead, that prize went to Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, possibly bolstering its chances at the Academy show on…

The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences, and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions…

When Netflix suggested I might like to preside over a conversation between Sophia Loren and Frank Langella, two titans of the screen and stage, it felt churlish to turn the opportunity down. They both appear in films handled by the streamer this year; Loren makes her return to screens after more than a decade away in T…

Frank Langella almost literally exploded onto the scene in 1970 with two movie roles that immediately brought him to prominence in Hollywood, Diary of a Mad Housewife and The Twelve Chairs — the latter being the movie Mel Brooks often cites as being his favorite of all he has made. What a start to a film career, and…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. Will this now-eight-month awards season ever end? In a normal year, the way it was originally planned, we’d be spending this Valentine's Day weekend checking out the BAFTA Awards and prepping for the Oscars just two weeks from now. Instead Monday…

EXCLUSIVE: The Trial of Chicago 7 writer-director Aaron Sorkin takes us behind the scenes of his Oscar-buzzed Netflix drama to spotlight the impressive roster of actors that brought this film to life. In the video above, Sorkin is joined by stars Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, Yahya Abdul Mateen II, Joseph Gordon…

Protesters line the streets shouting about injustice, instigators cross state lines accused of inciting violence, National Guard and police take charge and clash with peaceful protesters, a Republican president touting law and order sends his attorney general to put what he calls radical elements of the left on trial…

Although he attached to the film a year ago, Frank Langella now finally is firmed to star in the Charlie Kessler-directed Lapham Rising, an adaptation of the Roger Rosenblatt novel. The film was going to shoot last year in the Hamptons, but funding fell into disarray. Now it has come back together with funding from Win…

Frank Langella (The Americans) has signed on as a series regular opposite Jim Carrey and Catherine Keener in the upcoming Showtime half-hour comedy Kidding. Created by Dave Holstein and directed by Carrey's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind helmer Michel Gondry, the 10-episode Kidding centers on Jeff, aka Mr…

EXCLUSIVE: Kiernan Shipka, Candice Bergen, Kathryn Erbe and Jared Gilman have joined Frank Langella in Lapham Rising, the Charlie Kessler-directed film adaptation of Roger Rosenblatt's bestselling novel. Langella signed on after he completed his role as the Russian spy handler on the FX drama The Americans, and after…

EXCLUSIVE: Frank Langella has signed on to star in the film adaptation of Roger Rosenblatt's bestselling novel Lapham Rising, with shooting scheduled to begin in the Hamptons in early spring. Charlie Kessler is directing a script by Rosenblatt, and BCDF Pictures (Bachelorette) and the Kerry Orent Company (Money Monster…

Looking back on a year that offered an extraordinary range of shows, from intimate (Heisenberg, Blackbird) to spectacular (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812), it’s the performances by some of our most dazzling artists that stand out in the memory: Maryann Plunkett anchoring the Gabriel family, as she did the…