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Sacha Baron Cohen is set to receive the Comedic Genius Award at the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards, MTV announced today. On May 16, the Academy Award-nominated actor, screenwriter, producer and comedian will become the fourth recipient of the award, which honors an actor who has made incomparable contributions to the…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Unsurprisingly, there is little on which Sacha Baron Cohen and failed GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore see eye to eye. However, it still might raise an eyebrow a bit to discover that the discord literally includes which way The Trial of the Chicago 7 star turns his gaze. As the defendants seek to dismiss…

Sacha Baron Cohen pointed out during Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees all-day event a unique distinction of his second Borat movie, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. "Only a couple of sequels have ever been nominated [at the Oscars]. One was The Godfather Part II,” he said of the fact that not only his 2006 original…

In 1968, the Democratic National Convention was held in Chicago at a time of deep political unrest following the murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Thousands of activists filled the streets, resulting in scenes of chaos that led to eight individuals (Black Panther Bobby Seale was later disentangled from…

A sterling final lineup of talent, filmmakers and stars will be participating in Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees virtual event on Saturday. Among nominated actors appearing are Leslie Odom Jr., Riz Ahmed, Paul Raci, Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova, Carey Mulligan, Andra Day, Amanda Seyfried, BAFTA nominee…

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…

UPDATED with latest: Oscar-nominated directors Chloé Zhao, David Fincher, Lee Isaac Chung and Thomas Vinterberg are the recipients of this year’s Santa Barbara Film Festival Director of the Year Award. They will be honored during a ceremony April 6 at the festival, which this year runs March 31-April 10. Earlier this…

EXCLUSIVE: This year’s Oscar nominees Viola Davis, Daniel Kaluuya, Sacha Baron Cohen, Carey Mulligan, Steven Yeun, Amanda Seyfried and Paul Raci are among those who have been added as presenters for the the Producers Guild’s 32nd annual PGA Awards, which will take place later this week in a virtual ceremony. Others…

In one of the shortest WGA Award ceremonies in recent memory at 90 minutes, there were a few standout comedic moments, one being when Borat Subsequent Moviefilm actor/producer/co-scribe and Adapted Screenplay WGA winner Sacha Baron Cohen took a jab at his favorite punching bag in the sequel, Donald Trump consigliere…

Producers of One Night in Miami, Promising Young Woman, and Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm spoke about how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted their films at a panel staged by the Producers Guild. Miami producer Jess Wu Calder, Woman producer Ashley Fox and Borat producer Monica Levinson participated in a Producers Guild of…

Amazon Studios set a personal record for Oscar nominations this morning with 12 nominations, beating its previous record of seven, set in 2017 by Manchester By The Sea. Amazon's dozen noms were spread over four films. The standout was Sound of Metal, which got six nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor in Riz…