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Now comes my favorite part of the film awards season, the very beginning, when everyone is a contender. It's just like the old days, when the carnival came to town (also in late summer). Step right up, everyone's a winner! Take a shot, win a prize!! You can't win if you don't play the game!!! We all know it isn't…

EXCLUSIVE: The Saturn Awards have unveiled nominations for their 50th anniversary edition, with organizer the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films saying that the ceremony to reveal winners is set for October 25 in an event that will be livestreamed on ElectricNOW. Warner Bros/DC’s The Batman, directed…

EXCLUSIVE: Given how late the Oscars are this year on March 27, and how Covid held older adults back from attending cinemas, an Oscar halo effect was never expected to take place at the domestic box office for Best Picture nominees. All eyes were on streaming. But, was anyone watching? In an exclusive set of…

For production designer Tamara Deverell, working on Nightmare Alley was like breathing life into “two different films” at once. “One day you’d be a carny,” she says, “and the next day you’d be a high society, art deco museum maven.” Guillermo del Toro’s film based on the 1946 novel by William Lindsay Gresham centers…

Who’d have thought the 26th annual Art Directors Guild Awards would be such a good party? Community alum and host Yvette Nicole Brown kicked things off with great energy and a few genuinely funny jokes. There followed two genuinely engaging acceptance speeches from Ethan Tobman and François Audouy and then a genuinely…

Guillermo del Toro joined Deadline's Contenders Film: The Nominees event this weekend to discuss his latest movie Nightmare Alley, nominated for four Oscars including Best Picture. The film is based on William Lindsay Gresham's 1946 novel, which had been previously adapted for the screen in 1947 in a noir classic…

Nightmare Alley cat Guillermo del Toro is set to receive the Visual Effects Society’s career honor next month. The two-time Oscar winner for The Shape of Water — whose credits also include such effect-laden pics as Pan’s Labyrinth, Blade II and the Pacific Rim and Hellboy films — will pick up the VES Award for…

Weekend grosses popped higher for Oscar Best Picture nominees led by Licorice Pizza, Belfast and Drive My Car. Warner Bros. hasn’t reported grosses for Dune but at circa $150K as per industry sources it’s quadruple last weekend on more screens. Licorice Pizza and Belfast also had a big jump in runs so fatter grosses…

Films from Belfast to Drive My Car, from The Worst Person In The World to Nightmare Alley saw ticket sales pop after Academy Award nominations and as distributors kick into high gear for this weekend and beyond, juggling theater counts and ramped up media campaigns that now have a shiny new imprimatur. For Neon’s The W…

Those theatrical motion picture studios earning Oscar Best Picture nominations today will put their best foot forward at the box office, and increase the cinema footprint of their contenders in an effort to capitalize on their success and raise the pics’ profiles. And while the box office has improved, natch, because…

Beginning with our review coverage all the way back to the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, through Cannes in July, Venice and Telluride in the late summer, and finally to late-breaking holiday-season releases that qualified just under the gun for Oscar eligibility, Deadline has been on the front lines of opinion for this…

The night before his breakfast meeting with Guillermo del Toro for his Searchlight Pictures noir Nightmare Alley, composer Nathan Johnson had the opportunity to take in a “completely dry” cut of the feature—finding that he connected strongly with the “bold filmmaking” in front of him. “I was just taken aback because…