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The American Cinema Editors is handing out its 70th annual ACE Eddie Awards tonight at the Beverly Hilton, and Deadline will be updating the winners as they are announced. The Eddies have a strong track record of predicting the Best Editing winner at the Academy Awards. Twenty-two of the past 29 ACE winners for best…

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…

UPDATED with more early winners: The Producers Guild has revealed winners in some categories ahead of the 31st annual PGA Awards, set for Saturday at the Hollywood Palladium. The early honors were bestowed Monday night at the guild’s East Coast celebration of the 2020 nominees at Ascent Lounge in New York City, and…

When American Factory was announced on Monday as one of the five Oscar nominees for Best Documentary Feature, among the first to congratulate filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert were Barack and Michelle Obama. "Glad to see American Factory's Oscar nod for Best Documentary," the former president tweeted. "It's…

Oscar-winning screenwriter Charles Randolph will receive the WGA West's Paul Selvin Award in recognition of his script for Bombshell, the dramatic retelling of the sexual harassment scandal that brought down Fox News chief Roger Ailes. It will be presented at the 72nd annual Writers Guild Awards’ L.A. ceremony on…

The Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame will be induct William J. Creber – the production designer responsible for, among other achievements, the Statue of Liberty scene in the original Planet of the Apes – and frequent Cecil B. DeMille collaborator Roland Anderson into its ranks at the 24th Annual Art Directors Guild's…

UPDATED at 6:19 p.m. PT with statement from U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs: “We can report that the appropriate U.S. Embassy has been in touch with Mr. Fayyad’s attorneys to obtain the remaining documents needed in order to complete the processing of his application. The Department wishes to…

EXCLUSIVE: Klaus, Ford v Ferrari, and animated shorts Sister and Hair Love repped Oscar nominations earned by alumni of The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) yesterday. Since the creation of the Best Animated Feature Oscar category in 2001, 12 of the winning films were directed by CalArts alums with the last…

The Publicists Guild is out with the remaining nominees for its 2020 ICG Publicists Awards, which will be doled out February 7 at the Beverly Hilton. Read the list below. Up for the Publicist of the Year Award are Rachel Aberly (42 West), Michelle Alt (Paramount), unit publicist Carol McConnaughey and a pair from Walt…

Universal Music Group Nashville said Monday that it has signed Chrissy Metz, a star on NBC’s ensemble smash TV series This Is Us. The news comes the same day that the Diane Warren-penned song “I’m Standing With You” sung by Metz in the film Breakthrough earned an Oscar nomination. “I am beyond excited. I was like…

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…

Bright and early Monday morning, John Cho and Issa Rae unveiled the nominees for the 92nd Academy Awards and when it came to Best Director, we all waited with bated breath to see if the Academy would follow this unfortunate trend of women being shut out of the category. One by one, Rae announced the nominees: “The Iris…