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The 30th annual IFP Gotham Awards are moving from their previously set November date and will now take place January 11, 2021, organizer the Independent Film Project said Friday. The event is usually the unofficial kickof to the film awards season, and last year was December 2 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. But…

The Academy has chosen its film scholars this year and is not letting the coronavirus pandemic get in the way of one of AMPAS’ most important programs, at least in terms of serious studies relating to the film industry. Fittingly, considering Oscar’s drive toward greater diversity, both projects involve issues…

Casting director David Rubin has been re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by the organization’s board of governors. This will be the second one-year term for Rubin, who earlier in the day was nominated for an Emmy for his casting work on Big Little Lies. The board also elected to…

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association on Monday revealed the timeline for the 78th Golden Globe Awards, which are scheduled for February 28, 2021 at the Beverly Hilton in a live ceremony to be hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler on NBC. The group said nominations will be announced February 3, while it also officially…

In or around 1976, I caught a forlorn moment near New York's Bleecker St. It was early morning. The sun was just up. Two ragged guys were shuffling toward me on the sidewalk, when one offered the other a bottle in a bag. But the drink was declined. "I guess I lost my taste for it," sighed the saddest voice I'd ever…

EXCLUSIVE: Director Kelly Reichardt’s well-reviewed indie First Cow becomes the first physical 2020 DVD screener sent to all members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and now holds that singular distinction that I chronicle every year here on Deadline. Distributor A24 had the Academy put them all in…

Michael Shamberg, the producer whose credits include Erin Brockovich, Contagion, Get Shorty, The Big Chill and Pulp Fiction, has sued the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in an attempt to get the governing body to vote on his plan to boost its social media presence. The civil suit, filed Monday in Los…

EXCLUSIVE: Believe it or not the 1990 Oscar-winning box office blockbuster Ghost celebrates its 30th anniversary this month, and to mark that milestone Paramount Home Entertainment’s Paramount Presents label releases a new limited edition collectible Blu-ray on Tuesday which has been remastered from a 4K film transfer…

As the Academy Museum continues ramping up for its eventual opening, now slated for next year after numerous delays, its leadership is getting added strength from many different areas, both inside and outside of the motion picture industry. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures today announced the addition of six new…

Talk about box-office drama. As the July 4 weekend unwinds, IFC’sThe Truth might be slugging it out with Homewrecker from Dark Star and The Outpost from Screen Media for the honor of ranking somewhere in the 300s, near IFC's own Wiener-Dog, among all-time Independence Day performers. (Who can say for sure, as release…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has released its annual list of invitations to join the organization, and surveying the new class of Oscar voters it is clear they are aiming in a big way to continue erasing the stigma of not being inclusive, particularly in terms of women, international members and…