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A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. A little less than four months to the Oscars. Are you counting the days, folks? You actually have to wonder how the astounding and constantly unfolding events in America and the world are going to impact Hollywood’s favorite guessing game: who will…

Aaron Sorkin’s acclaimed and increasingly relevant political drama The Trial of the Chicago 7, which revolves around the raucous trial of a group of protesters accused of disrupting the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, took a leading four awards including best picture at the just concluded 25th annual Capri…

And then there were five. It is time on this eve of a new year (thank God) to reveal the rest of my 10 Best Movies of 2020 list with No. 5 on up, including my choice for this most unusual year’s top film — though as always it’s an arbitrary choice, when you get down to it, like picking apples or oranges. On Tuesday I…

EXCLUSIVE: The Trial of Chicago 7 writer-director Aaron Sorkin takes us behind the scenes of his Oscar-buzzed Netflix drama to spotlight the impressive roster of actors that brought this film to life. In the video above, Sorkin is joined by stars Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, Yahya Abdul Mateen II, Joseph Gordon…

In a newly created honor, the IFP Gotham Awards will salute The Trial of the Chicago 7 with the Ensemble Tribute at next month’s virtual ceremony. In the past, the ensemble award has been decided by a jury. IFP describes it as honoring “the performances of a group of dynamic and noteworthy cast onscreen and celebrate…

Netflix’s film and series music showcase Playlist launched Monday in the first of a series of conversations with composers and songwriters as well as performers. Here we moderated a conversation with the composers of Netflix’s suite of awards season movies: three-time Oscar winner Howard Shore who gave a moving…

Win, lose or draw, the frantic election cycle has already made one thing painfully clear: The movies will never catch up. They are too slow. A collaborative, deliberative medium like cinema can never keep pace with events—or more properly, with perceptions of and fascinations with seeming events—that change almost…

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…

Aaron Sorkin tends to build movies around disturbing ideas rather than empathetic protagonists, thus revisiting tense courtrooms and raucous newsrooms. The price: Sometimes the characters get buried by the rhetoric. His new movie, The Trial of the Chicago 7, opens this week at a propitious time when “serious&#8221…

Protesters line the streets shouting about injustice, instigators cross state lines accused of inciting violence, National Guard and police take charge and clash with peaceful protesters, a Republican president touting law and order sends his attorney general to put what he calls radical elements of the left on trial…

A column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit. No sooner had the Emmys ended with a disappointing night Sunday for Netflix after a record-breaking 160 nominations (and 21 wins), the streamer is turning its sights bigly to Oscar season. If the launch of their series of daily new Netflix Screening…

Netflix has dropped the latest look at its Aaron Sorkin political drama The Trial Of The Chicago 7, which premieres October 16. The film is based on the true story of the historic clash between peaceful protestors and authorities during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The Trial Of The Chicago 7 is loaded with…