A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. Emmy voting closes in three days. The reason I know that is because as a Television Academy member you are constantly reminded to vote, and that is the notice I got today, as opposed to yesterday, when it was four days. I wonder if they just send…

Update: The Producers Guild Awards on Jan. 18, 2020 will now take place at the Hollywood Palladium.  Also, a rundown of key submission and nom dates were announced.  They are as follows: Notice of Producing Credits Form Deadline Documentary Motion Pictures: September 5, 2019 (Late submission deadline is Sept. 19, 2019…

EXCLUSIVE: The planned opening for the Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures , announced for late Fall this year has been delayed once again, Deadline has learned. The museum won’t be ready for its close-up until sometime after the Oscars on  February 9; no opening date has yet been set, and the Academy is weighing all…

As the summer solstice approaches, on June 21, it's not too soon to start fretting about the earliest-ever Academy Awards ceremony, set for Feb. 9 of next year. Granted, the Oscars were handed out in seemingly earlier November of 1930, 1931 and 1932. But the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences qualified films…

BAFTA has announced its film ceremony dates for 2021 and 2022. The former will be held on Sunday February 14 and the latter on February 13. No surprise here. BAFTA tends to jump to the drum beat of the Oscars when it comes to scheduling and with the Academy yesterday revealing dates of February 28, 2021, and February…

The current Oscars experiment that lands the 92nd Academy Awards earlier than ever in 2020 — on Sunday, February 9 — looks to be a short-lived one, at least for the near future. On Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is announcing Oscar show dates for 2021 and 2022, with the organization and its…

In another show of increasing diversity for all things Oscar, actors Wes Studi and Geena Davis and directors David Lynch and Lina Wertmuller are the winners of the 11th Annual Governors Awards. The honors, as voted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Board of Governors in a special Saturday session, were…

Fifty years ago–on May 25, 1969, to be exact—United Artists walked into one of the all-time great film rating messes when it released John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy with the Motion Picture Association of America's dreaded "X–Persons under 17 not admitted." When Variety reviewed it on May 14, the movie, about a…

  EXCLUSIVE: I have learned that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors will convene in a special session Saturday to select their choices for the 11th annual Governors Awards. The latest Oscar winners are being chosen at the earliest date ever, fully three months earlier than usual. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran publicist and awards strategist Emily Lu Aldrich has founded the new venture Accolade Publicity and Consulting. The news comes after a successful 2018-2019 awards season for Aldrich in which she led 20th Century Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody craft awards team to three Oscar wins for sound mixing, sound…

With the 72nd Cannes Film Festival winding down into its last couple of days before voting begins by Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu’s jury to select the winner of the Palme d’Or and other prizes, there is lots of speculation about who will get them come Saturday night. Knowing the completely unpredictable nature of past…

Oscar comes to Cannes. Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences President and veteran cinematographer John Bailey received a very special honor at the Cannes Film Festival Sunday when he was presented with the insignia of Officier des Arts et Lettres (Officer In The Order Of Arts And Letters) at a packed ceremony at…