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  It now seems reasonably certain that this film awards season will be remembered for delivering the "Oscars With An Asterisk." On Tuesday, governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, bowing to coronavirus-induced theater closings, approved a temporary rules change allowing Academy Awards…

Gold Derby’s Tom O’Neil and I go head to head as we kick off the new awards-season series of videos analyzing the race as we see it. Today we talk Harvey Weinstein’s exit from the Oscar carnival and what that may mean without the man who was really the architect of awards campaigning in the modern era. We also examine…

I made my comedy series acting debut this week in the season premiere of truTV’s hit sketch comedy/educational hybrid Adam Ruins Everything, starring Adam Conover as a guy who likes to correct myths about various things in society that we only think we know about. Topics he took to debunking in Season 1 included cars…

Deadline’s film critic and awards columnist Pete Hammond has been tapped as the new host of KCET’s classic film series on the former Los Angeles PBS station. KCET Must See Movies kicks off next month with a trio of Oscar Best Picture winners: Patton, on Friday, September 2; From Here to Eternity on Friday, September 9…

Emmy season is off and running. If you need proof, all you have to do is look at all the trade and consumer newspaper advertising. Or just check any of the billboards around Los Angeles, where the bulk of the 18,500 or so active Television Academy members live and work. Or the number of networks, broadcast, cable and…

Both Deadline Film Editor Mike Fleming and Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond were nominated for the 50th Annual Publicists Award this year. At the gala luncheon held today, the Publicists of the International Cinematographers Guild (IATSE Local 600) announced that Hammond won. (Like it would have killed you…

Los Angeles, January 22, 2013 – The Publicists of the International Cinematographers Guild (IATSE Local 600) have> announced nominees in four categories, with the winners to be announced at their 50th Annual Awards Luncheon to be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Friday, February 22. Nominees for the Les Mason…

OSCARS: Pete Hammond's Final Academy Award Predictions In All 24 Categories (originally posted Thursday AM)

Deadline Hollywood's ENTV presents Awards Columnist Pete Hammond's 2012 Golden Globes analysis — first up is movies, followed by…

This year Hollywood types everywhere were discussing the Swedish films made from Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy of books — The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest. Noomi Rapace has already won the Swedish equivalency for her portrayal of Lisbeth…

Traditionally, most Hollywood businesses grind to a halt for the 5-day Thanksgiving holiday. But not this wide-open awards season. Tangled had its official Academy screening last Sunday morning but only drew about 200 people. Instead, the holidays actually seem like a good time to push an animated Disney musical. So…

Screening rooms all over town are booked solid for the tsunami of Q&A sessions being held for WGA, PGA, DGA, SAG and countless media organizations which host their own sponsored screenings of contenders. One SAG Nominating Committee member I ran into at the Arclight said he was skipping the screenings and just…