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A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. With Monday’s Oscar nominations in the rear view mirror now, and the nominees lunch just a week away, this shortened season is getting shorter and shorter. In fact, it feels like it is moving like a freight train now with one guild show after another…

Today, the Motion Picture Academy nominated nine films for the Best Picture Oscar, and I have reviewed all of them here at Deadline over the past few months. To say the Academy and I are pretty much on the same page as far as the best movies of 2019 is an understatement. Of the nine nominees, seven also appear on my ow…

With today’s Oscar Best Picture nomination for The Irishman and Joker, producer Emma Tillinger Koskoff tied as the fifth producer to have two films competing in the same category in the same year (producer David Heyman also has two films in the Best Picture category — Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Marriage Story)…

The biggest surprise for me in this morning’s nominations for the 92nd Annual Academy Awards is how few surprises there were. There was no jaw-dropping name in the major categories that came in from left field — so much so that I was able to predict all nine of the Best Picture nominees and most of the acting. Most…

Similar to last year, the 92nd Academy Awards will be going hostless on February 9, but this morning's Oscar nominations certainly had their share of unexpected disclosure for Hollywood's biggest night. Revealed by Issa Rae and John Cho in the pre-dawn hours out here on the West Coast, the contenders for the Golden…

UPDATED with full list: Nominations for the 92nd Oscars were announced Monday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, with Warner Bros’ subversive comic book film Joker scoring the most noms with 11, including Best Actor nominee Joaquin Phoenix. Three movies tied for the second-most noms with 10: Netflix’s…

The Critics' Choice Awards, hosted by Taye Diggs, were handed out on Sunday night and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood took the award for Best Picture and on the TV side, Fleabag nabbed the trophy for Best Comedy Series while Succession went home with Best Drama. A big shocker of the evening was the…

Inspiration arrived in unlikely form of a used valet parking ticket on the sidewalk between Mason and Giorgio's, two very expensive restaurants in Santa Monica Canyon. One side was printed with a glossy promotion for The Irishman, a mostly streamed film that was being touted as "The movie event of the year." Brilliant…

The National Board of Review lavished love on The Irishman at its annual gala Wednesday, marking the second straight night for the Martin Scorsese epic to soak up awards-season adulation in New York. The Netflix title was honored as Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay, and also got the NBR Icon Award, presented to…

The publicity campaigns for Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame, Netflix’s The Irishman, Warner Bros’ Joker, Columbia Pictures’ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Paramount’s Rocketman and Universal’s Us have been nominated for the Maxwell Weinberg Award for Motion Picture Publicity Campaign for the 57th annual ICG Publicist…

It is difficult to fit all of the boldfaced names of those who attended Tuesday night’s New York Film Critics Circle gala into a single paragraph. Because of the event’s format, which has a presenter (usually someone notable) introducing the actual winner of a prize, the list overflowed with sparkle, this year more…

It’s now or never. Ballots for the 92nd annual Academy Award nominations are due by 5 PM PT today. Word is more than a few members were waiting for the last minute, trying to watch whatever they can before being forced to turn in their ballot online in time to be counted. If they need help, the tsunami of awards…