The specialty streaming space will be On the Rocks this weekend — so to speak. Sofia Coppola’s father-daughter dramedy is set to drop on Apple TV+ on Friday and it seems like light-hearted movie-watching fare from the Oscar-winning filmmaker.
Deadline’s resident critic Pete Hammond seems to sign off on the sentiment that this will bring a little more fun than past Coppola auteur-driven pics like The Beguiled. In his review from when the pic premiered at the New York Film Festival in September, he wrote, “On the Rocks is more than just a riotously funny, wonderfully witty and smart film — it is a much-needed one.” Hammond added, “Coppola’s movie is also a bit of a pre-pandemic valentine to New York City, a reminder of the Big Apple’s pure joy, and even without Bill Murray to light it up that would probably be enough.”
On the Rocks stars Rashida Jones as Laura,...
Deadline’s resident critic Pete Hammond seems to sign off on the sentiment that this will bring a little more fun than past Coppola auteur-driven pics like The Beguiled. In his review from when the pic premiered at the New York Film Festival in September, he wrote, “On the Rocks is more than just a riotously funny, wonderfully witty and smart film — it is a much-needed one.” Hammond added, “Coppola’s movie is also a bit of a pre-pandemic valentine to New York City, a reminder of the Big Apple’s pure joy, and even without Bill Murray to light it up that would probably be enough.”
On the Rocks stars Rashida Jones as Laura,...
- 10/23/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Jack Mathews‘ colleagues remember the late, great film critic as a titantic industry figure who not only knew his Oscars, but was “charmingly unflappable” and “brilliantly funny.” Jack, who died Wednesday at age 80, contributed predictions and articles to Gold Derby for 20 years. We asked some of his peers to share their thoughts upon his passing.
Claudia Puig, film critic: “I had the good fortune of working with Jack at the L.A. Times, in the Calendar section. He was supremely knowledgeable about film and the entertainment industry, dryly funny, ever-professional and charmingly unflappable. Put simply, he was the ideal colleague and a prince of a guy. He will be sorely missed.”
Pete Hammond, Deadline Hollywood: “So sad. I continue finding reasons to truly hate 2020.”
Thelma Adams, veteran journalist: “Jack and I sparred about movies and the Oscars since the olden days when New York still had multiple vital tabloids – and...
Claudia Puig, film critic: “I had the good fortune of working with Jack at the L.A. Times, in the Calendar section. He was supremely knowledgeable about film and the entertainment industry, dryly funny, ever-professional and charmingly unflappable. Put simply, he was the ideal colleague and a prince of a guy. He will be sorely missed.”
Pete Hammond, Deadline Hollywood: “So sad. I continue finding reasons to truly hate 2020.”
Thelma Adams, veteran journalist: “Jack and I sparred about movies and the Oscars since the olden days when New York still had multiple vital tabloids – and...
- 5/15/2020
- by Tom O'Neil
- Gold Derby
Any fan of Nicole Kidman would have recognized the willowy, red-headed Australian actress as soon as she appeared on stage this weekend for the Annapurna presentation at Deadline’s The Contenders award-season event in Los Angeles. That wasn’t the case a few minutes later, however, when the DGA Theater’s screen showed scenes from Destroyer with a visage of Kidman that was startlingly unfamiliar.
In Destroyer Kidman portrays Erin Bell, who as a young police officer infiltrated a fearsome desert gang. That assignment led to wrenching tragedy. When the leader of that gang later eventually returns Bell goes back to finish the job — or to be finished by demons and choices that still haunt her.
Kidman’s face, bearing and eyes all reflect that history in Destroyer, which was directed by Karyn Kusama (Girlfight) and the cast also includes Sebastian Stan, Toby Kebbell,Tatiana Maslany and Bradley Whitford. On Saturday,...
In Destroyer Kidman portrays Erin Bell, who as a young police officer infiltrated a fearsome desert gang. That assignment led to wrenching tragedy. When the leader of that gang later eventually returns Bell goes back to finish the job — or to be finished by demons and choices that still haunt her.
Kidman’s face, bearing and eyes all reflect that history in Destroyer, which was directed by Karyn Kusama (Girlfight) and the cast also includes Sebastian Stan, Toby Kebbell,Tatiana Maslany and Bradley Whitford. On Saturday,...
- 11/4/2018
- by Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
The CBS Films presentation at Deadline’s The Contenders was the most intimate of the day — and perhaps the most enlightening. The allotted time for CBS was devoted to a single film, At Eternity’s Gate, and the list of panel guests limited to one name: Willem Dafoe, the three-time Academy Award nominee who looks to be back in the trophy hunt with his screen portrait of Vincent Van Gogh.
At Eternity’s Gate, directed by Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) off a screenplay written by Schnabel, Louise Kugelberg and Jean-Claude Carrière, tries to connect with the spirit, art and persona of Van Gogh and it was filmed in Bouches-du-Rhône, Auvers-sur-Oise and other areas of France where the Dutch painter spent the final seasons of his life.
Interviewed by Deadline’s Pete Hammond, Dafoe spoke about the filming experience in tones of inspired wonder. The actor cited the vivid scenery of the locale,...
At Eternity’s Gate, directed by Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) off a screenplay written by Schnabel, Louise Kugelberg and Jean-Claude Carrière, tries to connect with the spirit, art and persona of Van Gogh and it was filmed in Bouches-du-Rhône, Auvers-sur-Oise and other areas of France where the Dutch painter spent the final seasons of his life.
Interviewed by Deadline’s Pete Hammond, Dafoe spoke about the filming experience in tones of inspired wonder. The actor cited the vivid scenery of the locale,...
- 11/4/2018
- by Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
While Sandra Bullock would eventually fall in love with Bird Box—a Netflix horror-thriller based on a novel by Josh Malerman and directed by Susanne Bier—the Oscar winner had quite a different reaction to the material in her first interaction with it some years ago.
“I thought it was intriguing, but there was something about it that didn’t click,” she told Deadline’s Pete Hammond during the Netflix film’s panel at Deadline’s The Contenders award-season event Saturday at the DGA Theater. “I don’t relate to someone who doesn’t want to be a mother; I don’t relate to someone who isn’t warm and can’t love freely. Then I read it a few years ago and it hit me in a way that I can’t explain.”
Directed by Bier from Eric Heisserer’s script, Bird Box follows Malorie (Bullock), a woman who...
“I thought it was intriguing, but there was something about it that didn’t click,” she told Deadline’s Pete Hammond during the Netflix film’s panel at Deadline’s The Contenders award-season event Saturday at the DGA Theater. “I don’t relate to someone who doesn’t want to be a mother; I don’t relate to someone who isn’t warm and can’t love freely. Then I read it a few years ago and it hit me in a way that I can’t explain.”
Directed by Bier from Eric Heisserer’s script, Bird Box follows Malorie (Bullock), a woman who...
- 11/4/2018
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
At today’s Contenders La, here’s what they said about What They Had, Bleecker Street’s family drama from first time writer/director Elizabeth Chomko.
“It was something that I wrote for my family,” said Chomko, appearing on a panel with stars Hilary Swank and Robert Forster. “It’s about the things that happened during my grandmother’s Alzheimer’s disease…a place of grief and time traveling.”
Chomko said she wrote the first draft seven years ago, and joked that was followed with 40 rewrites before the story became a film starring Swank as Bridget, who returns home to Chicago at the urging of her brother (Michael Shannon) to engage in an emotional battle with her father (Forster) over who is best to make decisions for her ailing mother, portrayed by Blythe Danner.
Moderator Pete Hammond asked about the humor Chomko infuses into a tragic story. “I grew up...
“It was something that I wrote for my family,” said Chomko, appearing on a panel with stars Hilary Swank and Robert Forster. “It’s about the things that happened during my grandmother’s Alzheimer’s disease…a place of grief and time traveling.”
Chomko said she wrote the first draft seven years ago, and joked that was followed with 40 rewrites before the story became a film starring Swank as Bridget, who returns home to Chicago at the urging of her brother (Michael Shannon) to engage in an emotional battle with her father (Forster) over who is best to make decisions for her ailing mother, portrayed by Blythe Danner.
Moderator Pete Hammond asked about the humor Chomko infuses into a tragic story. “I grew up...
- 11/3/2018
- by Diane Haithman
- Deadline Film + TV
Sony Pictures brought two awards-worthy gems to Deadline’s The Contenders La on Saturday: political biopic The Front Runner and the animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
A retelling of the 1988 scandal that saw Democratic Sen. Gary Hart and presidential hopeful caught in an extramarital affair, The Front Runner seems particularly relevant in this politically fraught time, director Jason Reitman said.
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“I would be very happy with less relevance,” he said grimly, getting a laugh of recognition from the Contenders audience at the DGA Theater. “It had all this connective tissue to today. … We wake up, we open up the news app, we look at the headlines and we go ‘F*ck!”
The film also highlights the way that “tabloid journalism and political journalism all started to drive into the same lane,” Reitman said, drawing an analogy with finding stories...
A retelling of the 1988 scandal that saw Democratic Sen. Gary Hart and presidential hopeful caught in an extramarital affair, The Front Runner seems particularly relevant in this politically fraught time, director Jason Reitman said.
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“I would be very happy with less relevance,” he said grimly, getting a laugh of recognition from the Contenders audience at the DGA Theater. “It had all this connective tissue to today. … We wake up, we open up the news app, we look at the headlines and we go ‘F*ck!”
The film also highlights the way that “tabloid journalism and political journalism all started to drive into the same lane,” Reitman said, drawing an analogy with finding stories...
- 11/3/2018
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
At Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles today, Annapurna Pictures showed off two dramas from their impressive awards-season slate, and a unifying concern emerged: The American Dream, and the ways it has changed over time. While members of the privileged class have bent it into a new, baser shape, for those less fortunate, it’s often denied altogether.
The first of the two films at hand was Adam McKay’s Vice, his follow-up to The Big Short, which took on the 2008 financial crisis and won McKay the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. One of the later entries of the season (and mostly still shrouded in mystery), Vice examines the political rise of Dick Cheney (Christian Bale), a Washington insider with big pockets, who became the most powerful Vice President in American history under George W. Bush.
In conversation with star Amy Adams, who portrays Lynne Cheney, and Deadline’s Dominic Patten,...
The first of the two films at hand was Adam McKay’s Vice, his follow-up to The Big Short, which took on the 2008 financial crisis and won McKay the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. One of the later entries of the season (and mostly still shrouded in mystery), Vice examines the political rise of Dick Cheney (Christian Bale), a Washington insider with big pockets, who became the most powerful Vice President in American history under George W. Bush.
In conversation with star Amy Adams, who portrays Lynne Cheney, and Deadline’s Dominic Patten,...
- 11/3/2018
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
At today’s The Contenders La event, Universal Pictures took the audience rocketing back to the 1960s by presenting panels on two very different historical films: First Man and Green Book.
First Man tells the well-known story of Neil Armstrong’s journey to becoming the first man to walk on the moon, in 1969. The other, Green Book, makes a different sort of voyage to another planet, when real-life concert pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), who happens to be black, makes an early-1960s concert tour of the Deep South with working-class Italian bouncer Tony Lipp (Viggo Mortensen) acting as his bodyguard.
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Deadline co-executive editor Mike Fleming Jr. moderated the First Man panel that included director-producer Damien Chazelle, cinematographer Linus Sandgren, editor Tom Cross and composer Justin Hurwitz. The group talked about how they pooled their talents to perhaps create a darker,...
First Man tells the well-known story of Neil Armstrong’s journey to becoming the first man to walk on the moon, in 1969. The other, Green Book, makes a different sort of voyage to another planet, when real-life concert pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), who happens to be black, makes an early-1960s concert tour of the Deep South with working-class Italian bouncer Tony Lipp (Viggo Mortensen) acting as his bodyguard.
RelatedThe Contenders La: Read About All The Panels So Far
Deadline co-executive editor Mike Fleming Jr. moderated the First Man panel that included director-producer Damien Chazelle, cinematographer Linus Sandgren, editor Tom Cross and composer Justin Hurwitz. The group talked about how they pooled their talents to perhaps create a darker,...
- 11/3/2018
- by Diane Haithman
- Deadline Film + TV
This awards season — to quote Sam Cooke — a change is gonna come, courtesy of Focus Features. Today at Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles, the distributor presented two of its timely contenders in Boy Erased (which bowed in theaters Friday) and AFI Fest opener On the Basis of Sex, dramas that concern themselves with those who demand change, and the fights that make progress possible.
Directed by Mimi Leder, On the Basis of Sex tells the story of young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Felicity Jones) and husband Marty (Armie Hammer), examining their struggles against gender discrimination and the obstacles Ginsburg overcame to become an iconic change leader. In the year of Ginsburg — which already has seen the Supreme Court justice celebrated with a successful summer documentary — Leder honors everything she has in common with her film’s subject. First, there were her own battles in her industry of choice, which she had to overcome.
Directed by Mimi Leder, On the Basis of Sex tells the story of young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Felicity Jones) and husband Marty (Armie Hammer), examining their struggles against gender discrimination and the obstacles Ginsburg overcame to become an iconic change leader. In the year of Ginsburg — which already has seen the Supreme Court justice celebrated with a successful summer documentary — Leder honors everything she has in common with her film’s subject. First, there were her own battles in her industry of choice, which she had to overcome.
- 11/3/2018
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Two movies from Sony Pictures Classics presented at today’s The Contenders La at the DGA Theater reflect radically different worlds but have in common the challenge of being based on real-life events.
Actor John C. Reilly joined Deadline’s Pete Hammond to discuss the daunting challenge of portraying larger-than-life comedy star Oliver Hardy in Stan & Ollie alongside Steve Coogan as Stan Laurel, directed by John S. Baird from a script by Jeff Pope.
Hammond started off by joking with the audience: “So good to be in a room where I don’t have to explain who Laurel & Hardy are. Thank you for being old.”
Then Reilly joined him to talk about the hard work involved in creating the character underneath the fat suit and makeup that required two hours a day to get into and 45 minutes to remove. “He was a big guy his whole life, [but] he looked like...
Actor John C. Reilly joined Deadline’s Pete Hammond to discuss the daunting challenge of portraying larger-than-life comedy star Oliver Hardy in Stan & Ollie alongside Steve Coogan as Stan Laurel, directed by John S. Baird from a script by Jeff Pope.
Hammond started off by joking with the audience: “So good to be in a room where I don’t have to explain who Laurel & Hardy are. Thank you for being old.”
Then Reilly joined him to talk about the hard work involved in creating the character underneath the fat suit and makeup that required two hours a day to get into and 45 minutes to remove. “He was a big guy his whole life, [but] he looked like...
- 11/3/2018
- by Diane Haithman
- Deadline Film + TV
On the eve of the Cannes Film Festival, one of the most influential fixtures on the international film circuit has died. Pierre Rissient, a critic, programmer, distributor, press attaché, assistant director, director and talent advocate, passed away overnight last night. He was 81. Bertrand Tavernier announced the news in a tweet that was relayed by France’s Institut Lumière.
Rissient began his career programming Paris’ Mac Mahon cinema in the 1950s and went on to wear several hats within the industry. He was an assistant to Jean-Luc Godard on Breathless and helped bring international recognition to such filmmakers as Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Jerry Schatzberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Quentin Tarantino, Jane Campion and Abbas Kiarostami. Eastwood, who Rissient met in the 1970s, dubbed him “Mr Everywhere.”
The movie lover was an artistic adviser to the Cannes Film Festival and is credited with being instrumental in bringing Campion’s The Piano to the Croisette.
Rissient began his career programming Paris’ Mac Mahon cinema in the 1950s and went on to wear several hats within the industry. He was an assistant to Jean-Luc Godard on Breathless and helped bring international recognition to such filmmakers as Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Jerry Schatzberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Quentin Tarantino, Jane Campion and Abbas Kiarostami. Eastwood, who Rissient met in the 1970s, dubbed him “Mr Everywhere.”
The movie lover was an artistic adviser to the Cannes Film Festival and is credited with being instrumental in bringing Campion’s The Piano to the Croisette.
- 5/6/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
This week’s slate of videos and podcasts on Deadline include a queen, hip-hop legends, and Oz’s first Latina Dorothy. Watch the videos and listen to the podcasts in the roundup below.
When the Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated Claire Foy sat down with Pete Hammond for the latest edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, she said she always knew that The Crown was only going to be two seasons before handing the role to another actress. We talk a lot about this groundbreaking role for her and what it has meant.
Besides teasing the conclusion of the 10-part series created and written by Kyle Long and mainly directed by Anthony Hemingway,...
When the Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated Claire Foy sat down with Pete Hammond for the latest edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, she said she always knew that The Crown was only going to be two seasons before handing the role to another actress. We talk a lot about this groundbreaking role for her and what it has meant.
Besides teasing the conclusion of the 10-part series created and written by Kyle Long and mainly directed by Anthony Hemingway,...
- 5/5/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
From ABC’s The Good Doctor to Sony Crackle’s The Oath to Lifetime’s Unreal, this week included an impressive slate of guests on Deadline’s multiple video series and podcasts.
The Good Doctor star Freddie Highmore to the Deadline studios on this week’s edition of my video series The Actor’s Side.
The Oath stars Katrina Law and Cory Hardrict recently sat down for an episode of Deadline’s Next Generation TV video series to talk about their crime drama, which was just renewed for a second season on Sony’s Crackle.
This week, Deadline’s Production Value video series continues its space exploration with Seth MacFarlane sci-fi series The Orville, as Emmy-nominated production designer Stephen Lineweaver takes us behind the scenes and into the Fox show’s titular space vessel.
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman joins Deadline’s Dino Ray-Ramos and Amanda N’Duka to discuss his journey to...
The Good Doctor star Freddie Highmore to the Deadline studios on this week’s edition of my video series The Actor’s Side.
The Oath stars Katrina Law and Cory Hardrict recently sat down for an episode of Deadline’s Next Generation TV video series to talk about their crime drama, which was just renewed for a second season on Sony’s Crackle.
This week, Deadline’s Production Value video series continues its space exploration with Seth MacFarlane sci-fi series The Orville, as Emmy-nominated production designer Stephen Lineweaver takes us behind the scenes and into the Fox show’s titular space vessel.
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman joins Deadline’s Dino Ray-Ramos and Amanda N’Duka to discuss his journey to...
- 4/28/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Fresh off of Deadline’s Emmy Contenders event, this week’s slate of video series and podcast featured a roster of guests that have delivered some impressive performances on television in the past year.
Maggie Gyllenhaal talked to Pete Hammond on The Actor’s Side about HBO’s The Deuce, the edgy series about the explosion of porn in the early 1970s in New York City. The Oscar-nominated actress plays a hooker named Candy who gets sucked into this world and becomes a porn actress and filmmaker. Watch the video below.
In the first installment of Deadline’s second season of Next Generation TV, Dominic Patten talks to Golden Globe-nominated Smilf creator, showrunner, and star Frankie Shaw about the second season of the Showtime comedy.
In the latest episode of the New Hollywood Podcast, Darren Criss talks to Dino-Ray Ramos and Amanda N’Duka about tackling the nuanced role of...
Maggie Gyllenhaal talked to Pete Hammond on The Actor’s Side about HBO’s The Deuce, the edgy series about the explosion of porn in the early 1970s in New York City. The Oscar-nominated actress plays a hooker named Candy who gets sucked into this world and becomes a porn actress and filmmaker. Watch the video below.
In the first installment of Deadline’s second season of Next Generation TV, Dominic Patten talks to Golden Globe-nominated Smilf creator, showrunner, and star Frankie Shaw about the second season of the Showtime comedy.
In the latest episode of the New Hollywood Podcast, Darren Criss talks to Dino-Ray Ramos and Amanda N’Duka about tackling the nuanced role of...
- 4/21/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Hours before Hulu’s Contenders panel for Sarah Silverman’s I Love You, America—the final panel of the day—the streaming service announced that the hit variety series will be back for another 11 episodes, to begin airing on September 6—just in time for conversation centering on the midterm elections.
Speaking with Deadline’s Pete Hammond, Silverman first discussed her initial conception of the series, which tries to take an even-keeled look at the current political situation in America from both sides of the spectrum. “The quick one-sentence thought was, ‘Mr. Rogers for adults.’ It felt like it was really time to remember things like, ‘If it’s mentionable, its manageable,’ and ‘There isn’t anyone you couldn’t love once you’ve heard their story,'” the comedian explained. “The challenge was making sure that above all of it, it’s very silly and still hard comedy.”
Recounting brutal...
Speaking with Deadline’s Pete Hammond, Silverman first discussed her initial conception of the series, which tries to take an even-keeled look at the current political situation in America from both sides of the spectrum. “The quick one-sentence thought was, ‘Mr. Rogers for adults.’ It felt like it was really time to remember things like, ‘If it’s mentionable, its manageable,’ and ‘There isn’t anyone you couldn’t love once you’ve heard their story,'” the comedian explained. “The challenge was making sure that above all of it, it’s very silly and still hard comedy.”
Recounting brutal...
- 4/16/2018
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
In Lifetime’s Cocaine Godmother, Catherine Zeta-Jones plays the drug queenpin Griselda Blanco, one of the original “Cocaine Cowboys” who pioneered the drug trade between Colombia and the Us in the 1970s and ’80s. Blanco wasn’t exactly a stellar role model for good, but as the Academy Award-winning actress told moderator Pete Hammond at Contenders, she “relished” playing the layered character of Blanco.
“This character is the polar opposite of what I believe in morally and how I would want to live one’s life,” said Zeta-Jones. “There’s something fascinating about her when you think of her as a woman in that workplace.”
She goes on to say that she was amazed by how Blanco sustained her career at her peak. “I just loved playing her,” she said.
Even so, Zeta-Jones recognizes that Blanco was a woman with no redeemable qualities. She said she had no sympathy for her,...
“This character is the polar opposite of what I believe in morally and how I would want to live one’s life,” said Zeta-Jones. “There’s something fascinating about her when you think of her as a woman in that workplace.”
She goes on to say that she was amazed by how Blanco sustained her career at her peak. “I just loved playing her,” she said.
Even so, Zeta-Jones recognizes that Blanco was a woman with no redeemable qualities. She said she had no sympathy for her,...
- 4/16/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
“Designated Survivor” star Maggie Q is set to introduce the opening night of Kcet and Link TV’s Earth Focus Environmental Film Festival, Variety has learned exclusively.
The actress, producer, and environmentalist will give the introduction for the West Coast premiere of the documentary “Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story” on April 20 at Sony Pictures Studios’ Kim Novak Theatre. The film, from filmmaker Ashley Bell, follows a daring 48-hour mission across Thailand to rescue a captive Asian elephant and set her free. A post-screening Q&A will follow with filmmakers Bell, Roddy Tabatabai and John Michael McCarthy, executive producer David Casselman as well as the film’s Sangdeaun Lek Chailert moderated by Kcet “Must See Movies” host and Deadline chief film critic Pete Hammond.
Five pairs of tickets will be given away to the opening night screening event via Kcet’s Facebook.
Following the opening night event at Sony Pictures Studios,...
The actress, producer, and environmentalist will give the introduction for the West Coast premiere of the documentary “Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story” on April 20 at Sony Pictures Studios’ Kim Novak Theatre. The film, from filmmaker Ashley Bell, follows a daring 48-hour mission across Thailand to rescue a captive Asian elephant and set her free. A post-screening Q&A will follow with filmmakers Bell, Roddy Tabatabai and John Michael McCarthy, executive producer David Casselman as well as the film’s Sangdeaun Lek Chailert moderated by Kcet “Must See Movies” host and Deadline chief film critic Pete Hammond.
Five pairs of tickets will be given away to the opening night screening event via Kcet’s Facebook.
Following the opening night event at Sony Pictures Studios,...
- 4/11/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Starting with “Close Encounter of the Third Kind” (1977), nine films directed by Steven Spielberg have earned Oscar nominations in Best Visual Effects. This year, with the CGI extravaganza “Ready Player One,” a 10th Spielberg picture is poised to contend in this category.
The film, based on Ernest Cline‘s eponymous novel, finds earth on the verge of collapse in the year 2045. Providing the human race a distraction is Oasis, a virtual reality universe created by the oddball James Halliday (Mark Rylance). Prior to his death, Halliday devised a three-part contest which, if won, will provide the lucky champion with Halliday’s fortune and exclusive control over Oasis. Among those competing for this glory is young wannabe-hero Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan). After Wade emerges the first conqueror of part one of the contest, he collaborates with friends on the dizzying journey to winning the remaining two parts.
Of the film’s visual effects,...
The film, based on Ernest Cline‘s eponymous novel, finds earth on the verge of collapse in the year 2045. Providing the human race a distraction is Oasis, a virtual reality universe created by the oddball James Halliday (Mark Rylance). Prior to his death, Halliday devised a three-part contest which, if won, will provide the lucky champion with Halliday’s fortune and exclusive control over Oasis. Among those competing for this glory is young wannabe-hero Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan). After Wade emerges the first conqueror of part one of the contest, he collaborates with friends on the dizzying journey to winning the remaining two parts.
Of the film’s visual effects,...
- 4/5/2018
- by Andrew Carden
- Gold Derby
“The Shape of Water” was just announced as the 2018 Oscar winner for Best Picture, but Hollywood doesn’t sleep when it comes to Oscar season. Disney is already preparing a massive awards push for its Marvel tentpole “Black Panther.”
A Disney executive told Deadline that “Black Panther” will be one of two tentpoles the company puts its weight behind next awards season. The other is “Mary Poppins Returns;” Emily Blunt stars in the title role, which won Julie Andrews an Oscar.
Fortunately, “Black Panther” has at least one confirmed Academy member supporting it, and he happens to be a directing powerhouse. Deadline reporter Pete Hammond ran into Christopher Nolan, and asked which films were on radar for next year’s Best Picture race. Nolan said he predicts a Best Picture nomination for “Black Panther,” even though superhero films have long been avoided in the Oscars’ biggest category. Nolan’s own...
A Disney executive told Deadline that “Black Panther” will be one of two tentpoles the company puts its weight behind next awards season. The other is “Mary Poppins Returns;” Emily Blunt stars in the title role, which won Julie Andrews an Oscar.
Fortunately, “Black Panther” has at least one confirmed Academy member supporting it, and he happens to be a directing powerhouse. Deadline reporter Pete Hammond ran into Christopher Nolan, and asked which films were on radar for next year’s Best Picture race. Nolan said he predicts a Best Picture nomination for “Black Panther,” even though superhero films have long been avoided in the Oscars’ biggest category. Nolan’s own...
- 3/7/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Congratulations to our Expert Adnan VIrk (ESPN) for a terrific score of 87.50% when predicting the 2018 Oscars winners on Sunday. He is best among 30 Experts, journalists who cover the entertainment world and awards shows throughout the year. He is just ahead of a quartet with 83.33% accuracy — Thelma Adams (Gold Derby), Erik Davis (Fandango), Joyce Eng (Gold Derby) and Brian Truitt (USA Today). See Experts’ leaderboard.
Almost 7,000 people worldwide predicted these Academy Awards winners in 24 categories. The ceremony was held in Hollywood and was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. Virk got 21 of 24 categories correct, but missed out on “The Shape of Water” for Best Picture (choosing “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” instead). He did get that movie’s director champ Guillermo del Toro and the four acting winners of Frances McDormand, Timothee Chalamet, Allison Janney and Sam Rockwell.
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Almost 7,000 people worldwide predicted these Academy Awards winners in 24 categories. The ceremony was held in Hollywood and was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. Virk got 21 of 24 categories correct, but missed out on “The Shape of Water” for Best Picture (choosing “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” instead). He did get that movie’s director champ Guillermo del Toro and the four acting winners of Frances McDormand, Timothee Chalamet, Allison Janney and Sam Rockwell.
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- 3/5/2018
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Congratulations to our Expert Erik Davis for a terrific score of 81.82% when predicting the 2018 Independent Spirit Awards winners on Saturday. He is best among 14 Experts, journalists who cover the entertainment world and awards shows throughout the year. See Experts’ leaderboard.
Almost 2,000 people worldwide predicted these Indie Spirits winners in nine categories. The ceremony was held by the beach in Santa Monica and was hosted by Nick Kroll and John Mulaney. Davis picked “Get Out” for Best Picture with its director champ Jordan Peele and the four acting winners of Frances McDormand, Timothee Chalamet, Allison Janney and Sam Rockwell. He missed on Best Screenplay (choosing “Get Out” over “Lady Bird”) and Best Editing (picking “Good Time” over “I, Tonya”).
SEE2018 Independent Spirit Awards: Complete list of winners at the 33rd Indie Spirits
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Almost 2,000 people worldwide predicted these Indie Spirits winners in nine categories. The ceremony was held by the beach in Santa Monica and was hosted by Nick Kroll and John Mulaney. Davis picked “Get Out” for Best Picture with its director champ Jordan Peele and the four acting winners of Frances McDormand, Timothee Chalamet, Allison Janney and Sam Rockwell. He missed on Best Screenplay (choosing “Get Out” over “Lady Bird”) and Best Editing (picking “Good Time” over “I, Tonya”).
SEE2018 Independent Spirit Awards: Complete list of winners at the 33rd Indie Spirits
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- 3/4/2018
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
“Dunkirk” is ahead to win Oscars for Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing, and it’s no wonder since action-packed war movies often do well in audio categories. If the film indeed wins the award for its sound editing, it would additionally make history as Richard King would set a new record for the most wins in that category.
There is currently a six-way tie for the most Sound Editing wins. Ben Burtt, Charles L. Campbell, Per Hallberg, Richard Hymns, Gary Rydstrom and King have three victories apiece, including years when the prize was handed out as a special achievement award and not a competitive Oscar. King previously won his Oscars for “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World” (2003), “The Dark Knight” (2008) and “Inception” (2010), and he earned additional nominations for “War of the Worlds” (2005) and “Interstellar” (2014). For his work on “Dunkirk” he’s nominated alongside first-time Oscar-contender Alex Gibson,...
There is currently a six-way tie for the most Sound Editing wins. Ben Burtt, Charles L. Campbell, Per Hallberg, Richard Hymns, Gary Rydstrom and King have three victories apiece, including years when the prize was handed out as a special achievement award and not a competitive Oscar. King previously won his Oscars for “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World” (2003), “The Dark Knight” (2008) and “Inception” (2010), and he earned additional nominations for “War of the Worlds” (2005) and “Interstellar” (2014). For his work on “Dunkirk” he’s nominated alongside first-time Oscar-contender Alex Gibson,...
- 3/1/2018
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Gary Oldman was considered a likely Oscar front-runner for “Darkest Hour” almost as soon as the first production still was released of him disappearing into the role of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. And the prosthetic makeup that helped him disappear became an Oscar front-runner just as quickly. With Oscar night approaching that hasn’t changed, especially with the film’s victories at the Critics’ Choice Awards, BAFTAs and Make Up and Hair Stylists Guild Awards. Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick are the makeup and hair artists nominated for their work on the docudrama, and they’re the overwhelming favorites to win Best Makeup and Hairstyling with 1/10 odds.
Those odds are based on the combined predictions of thousands of users who have entered their picks at Gold Derby thus far. That includes 26 Expert journalists we’ve polled from top media outlets, 25 of whom are predicting a “Darkest Hour...
Those odds are based on the combined predictions of thousands of users who have entered their picks at Gold Derby thus far. That includes 26 Expert journalists we’ve polled from top media outlets, 25 of whom are predicting a “Darkest Hour...
- 2/28/2018
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
For most of the awards season “Jane,” which profiles primatologist Jane Goodall, was the Oscar front-runner for Best Documentary Feature — until of course the Oscar nominations were announced. “Jane” didn’t even end up with a bid, so now the race is wide open. But based on our latest predictions leading up to Oscar weekend the race will have an unusual outcome: “Faces Places” gets leading odds of 8/15 to win, which would give director Agnes Varda a competitive Oscar the same year she won an honorary Oscar.
It’s not uncommon for an artist to win both competitive and honorary Oscars in their career, and it’s not unprecedented to win a competitive Oscar after you’ve won your honorary award: for instance, actor Paul Newman and composer Ennio Morricone have pulled off that feat. But it’s unusual to receive both awards in the same Oscar season. The 89-year-old...
It’s not uncommon for an artist to win both competitive and honorary Oscars in their career, and it’s not unprecedented to win a competitive Oscar after you’ve won your honorary award: for instance, actor Paul Newman and composer Ennio Morricone have pulled off that feat. But it’s unusual to receive both awards in the same Oscar season. The 89-year-old...
- 2/28/2018
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
As final Oscar voting ended on Feb. 27, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” leapt ahead of “The Shape of Water” in the race for Best Picture. Martin McDonagh‘s character study now has the votes of 11 our 27 Oscar experts from major media outlets to win while Guillermo del Toro‘s fantasy has fallen back to nine. Those respective levels of support translate into odds of 17/10 versus 9/4.
But watch out for “Get Out,” which has six experts in its corner and competitive odds of 7/2. “Lady Bird” continues to have a single backer and odds of 20/1 to pull off an upset. (See the individual rankings by experts and the resulting odds.)
This late surge by “Three Billboards” coincides with the end of the second and final round of voting for the Oscars. The Best Picture winner, as well as those in the other 23 competitive categories, will be revealed live on the 90th Academy...
But watch out for “Get Out,” which has six experts in its corner and competitive odds of 7/2. “Lady Bird” continues to have a single backer and odds of 20/1 to pull off an upset. (See the individual rankings by experts and the resulting odds.)
This late surge by “Three Billboards” coincides with the end of the second and final round of voting for the Oscars. The Best Picture winner, as well as those in the other 23 competitive categories, will be revealed live on the 90th Academy...
- 2/28/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
When it comes to the writing categories at the Oscars, “Call Me by Your Name” scribe James Ivory should be doubly grateful to Andre Aciman for writing the novel his script is based on. Ivory’s writing has earned kudos from numerous critics and awards groups. But in addition, the fact that Ivory’s script is an adaptation allows him to avoid the gauntlet of Best Original Screenplay, where arguably the four biggest contenders for Best Picture are all in the running: “Get Out,” “Lady Bird,” “The Shape of Water” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” Instead, “Call Me” vies for Best Adapted Screenplay where it’s the overwhelming front-runner with 1/10 odds.
Those odds are based on the combined forecasts of thousands of Gold Derby users who have entered their picks in our predictions center thus far. That includes 26 Expert journalists we’ve polled from top media outlets, 25 of whom...
Those odds are based on the combined forecasts of thousands of Gold Derby users who have entered their picks in our predictions center thus far. That includes 26 Expert journalists we’ve polled from top media outlets, 25 of whom...
- 2/28/2018
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
With Oscar season winding down “Phantom Thread” continues to lead our predictions for Best Costume Design with odds of 2/9. That’s not exactly a surprise since the film is all about a fashion designer (played by Daniel Day-Lewis), which puts a strong emphasis on the film’s wardrobe. Or maybe it is a surprise since “Phantom Thread,” despite its fashion-forward storyline, actually lost the Costume Designers Guild Award for period films to “The Shape of Water.” But the film’s threads are designed by Mark Bridges, who previously won this category for “The Artist” (2011), so we know the academy is fond of his work. Does he have this race all sewn up?
As of this writing more than 4,700 users have made their predictions at Gold Derby. That includes 26 Expert journalists from top media outlets, 22 of whom agree with the consensus that “Phantom Thread” will prevail: Thelma Adams (Gold Derby), Kyle Buchanan...
As of this writing more than 4,700 users have made their predictions at Gold Derby. That includes 26 Expert journalists from top media outlets, 22 of whom agree with the consensus that “Phantom Thread” will prevail: Thelma Adams (Gold Derby), Kyle Buchanan...
- 2/27/2018
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” just pulled into a tie for first place with longtime frontrunner “The Shape of Water” in the race for Best Picture. Of our 26 Oscar experts from major media outlets, each of these films now has 10 votes. “Get Out” still has five experts in its corner while “Lady Bird” has one backer. (See the individual rankings by experts and the resulting odds.)
This surge by “Three Billboards” has come at just the right time as final Oscar voting ends on Feb. 27. The winner of this prize, as well as the other 23 competitive categories, will be revealed live on the 90th Academy Awards that air on ABC on Sunday (March 4).
“Three Billboards” had the support of just five experts before it swept the Baftas on Feb. 18. Martin McDonagh‘s character study won both Best Picture and Best British Film, two acting awards (Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell) and original screenplay.
This surge by “Three Billboards” has come at just the right time as final Oscar voting ends on Feb. 27. The winner of this prize, as well as the other 23 competitive categories, will be revealed live on the 90th Academy Awards that air on ABC on Sunday (March 4).
“Three Billboards” had the support of just five experts before it swept the Baftas on Feb. 18. Martin McDonagh‘s character study won both Best Picture and Best British Film, two acting awards (Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell) and original screenplay.
- 2/27/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” got a big boost in the race for Best Picture at the Oscars following its five wins at the Baftas last Sunday (Feb. 18). Nine of our 26 Oscar experts from major media outlets now favor Martin McDonagh‘s character study to win Best Picture at the Oscars. That is up from five votes before the British academy weighed in with their picks. Conversely, “The Shape of Water,” which won three BAFTAs including Best Director (Guillermo del Toro), fell from 12 pundits to 10. (See the individual rankings by experts and the resulting odds.)
That sweep at the BAFTAs, where it won both Best Picture and Best British Film, two acting awards (Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell) and original screenplay, came at just the right time for “Three Billboards.” Final voting for the Academy Awards began on Feb. 20 and ends on Feb. 27. While “The Shape of Water” still has the...
That sweep at the BAFTAs, where it won both Best Picture and Best British Film, two acting awards (Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell) and original screenplay, came at just the right time for “Three Billboards.” Final voting for the Academy Awards began on Feb. 20 and ends on Feb. 27. While “The Shape of Water” still has the...
- 2/25/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” swept the BAFTAs on Sunday (Feb. 18), winning five awards including Best Picture. Mindful that the British academy often previews the Academy Awards, our Oscar experts from major media outlets have been busy updating their predictions. Six of our pundits now favor Martin McDonagh‘s character study to win. That support translates into odds of 10/3 to take the top prize on March 4. (See the individual rankings by experts and the resulting odds.)
However, exactly half of our two dozen experts are still backing the Best Picture bid by “The Shape of Water.” Those votes give it leading odds of 6/5. Guillermo del Toro won Best Director at BAFTA and his fantasy film picked up two other prizes (production design, score) there as well.
Five experts favor Jordan Peele‘s social satire “Get Out.” This gives the blockbuster odds of 4/1 to win the top Academy Award. And one...
However, exactly half of our two dozen experts are still backing the Best Picture bid by “The Shape of Water.” Those votes give it leading odds of 6/5. Guillermo del Toro won Best Director at BAFTA and his fantasy film picked up two other prizes (production design, score) there as well.
Five experts favor Jordan Peele‘s social satire “Get Out.” This gives the blockbuster odds of 4/1 to win the top Academy Award. And one...
- 2/20/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Congratulations to Joyce Eng (Gold Derby) and Peter Travers (Rolling Stone) for topping all Experts predicting the 2018 BAFTA Film Awards winners on Sunday. Their score of 76.19% puts them in front of a group of nine Experts, journalists who cover the entertainment industry throughout the year. See Experts’ leaderboard.
Over 1,900 people worldwide predicted these British Academy Film Awards winners in 21 categories. The awards ceremony was held on February 18 in London and was hosted by Joanna Lumley. Both of our top Experts got 16 categories correct, including “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri” for Best Picture and Best British Film and the four acting champs — Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Allison Janney and Sam Rockwell.
SEE2018 BAFTA Awards: Full winners list of the 71st annual British Academy Film Awards
You can see how your score compares to all others in our leaderboard rankings of all contestants, which also includes links to see each participant’s predictions.
Over 1,900 people worldwide predicted these British Academy Film Awards winners in 21 categories. The awards ceremony was held on February 18 in London and was hosted by Joanna Lumley. Both of our top Experts got 16 categories correct, including “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri” for Best Picture and Best British Film and the four acting champs — Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Allison Janney and Sam Rockwell.
SEE2018 BAFTA Awards: Full winners list of the 71st annual British Academy Film Awards
You can see how your score compares to all others in our leaderboard rankings of all contestants, which also includes links to see each participant’s predictions.
- 2/18/2018
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Michael Musto, who writes for the Daily Beast and is a member of the Gold Derby panel of Experts, has just published an interview with an Oscar voter who he declined to name, and though his subject’s predictions are in line with most of ours, it’s always good to hear from someone on the inside.
Those of us journalists who’ve covered the industry in its home town have known many members of the academy and have always called on them during awards season to get whatever inside dope they might have on voter sentiments.
I covered Hollywood with a close eye on the Oscars from the late ‘70s to the early ‘90s for Knight-Ridder, USA Today and the Los Angeles Times, and I was on the phone with academy members from October to March. It wasn’t by any stretch a scientific poll I was conducting, but so far,...
Those of us journalists who’ve covered the industry in its home town have known many members of the academy and have always called on them during awards season to get whatever inside dope they might have on voter sentiments.
I covered Hollywood with a close eye on the Oscars from the late ‘70s to the early ‘90s for Knight-Ridder, USA Today and the Los Angeles Times, and I was on the phone with academy members from October to March. It wasn’t by any stretch a scientific poll I was conducting, but so far,...
- 2/13/2018
- by Jack Mathews
- Gold Derby
“Phantom Thread” leads our Oscar predictions to win Best Costume Design with odds of 2/9. That’s not exactly a surprise since the film is all about a fashion designer (played by Daniel Day-Lewis), which puts a strong emphasis on the film’s wardrobe. And the films threads are designed by Mark Bridges, who previously won this category for “The Artist” (2011). But it would be unusual in one respect: period movies that win Best Costume Design tend to be set further in the past than “Phantom Thread,” which takes place in the 1950s. In fact, this would be the most contemporary film to win that Oscar since “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” (1994).
Admittedly, a few winners from the last 23 years are hard to quantify. “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (2003) prevailed, but it takes place in a fantasy world removed from our real-world timeline.
Admittedly, a few winners from the last 23 years are hard to quantify. “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (2003) prevailed, but it takes place in a fantasy world removed from our real-world timeline.
- 2/12/2018
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Jordan Peele won a top prize at the Writers Guild of America Awards on Feb. 11 for his original script for “Get Out.” Mindful that the WGA often previews the Academy Awards, our Oscar experts from major media outlets have been busy updating their predictions. Three of our pundits now favor his social satire to win Best Picture. That gives it odds of 13/2.
However 12 of our 19 experts are now backing the Best Picture bid by one of Peele’s WGA rivals, Guillermo del Toro for “The Shape of Water.” That support translates into leading odds of 21/20 for this fantasy film. (See the individual rankings by experts and the resulting odds.)
Martin McDonagh was ineligible to contend at the WGA Award for his original script for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” This character study has the backing of six experts and odds of 3/1 to win.
One expert is still forecasting a win...
However 12 of our 19 experts are now backing the Best Picture bid by one of Peele’s WGA rivals, Guillermo del Toro for “The Shape of Water.” That support translates into leading odds of 21/20 for this fantasy film. (See the individual rankings by experts and the resulting odds.)
Martin McDonagh was ineligible to contend at the WGA Award for his original script for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” This character study has the backing of six experts and odds of 3/1 to win.
One expert is still forecasting a win...
- 2/12/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Congratulations to a group of seven Experts for a terrific score of 80% when predicting the 2018 Writers Guild Awards winners on Sunday. For these journalists who cover the entertainment industry throughout the year, the tie was between Erik Davis (Fandango), Edward Douglas, Joyce Eng (Gold Derby), Pete Hammond (Deadline), Tom O’Neil (Gold Derby), Anne Thompson (Indiewire) and Peter Travers (Rolling Stone).
Over 1,300 people worldwide predicted these WGA winners in three film and seven television categories. The awards ceremony was held on February 11 in New York City (hosted by Amber Ruffin) and in Beverly Hills (hosted by Patton Oswalt). Those three film awards were won by Jordan Peele for “Get Out” (original screenplay), James Ivory for “Call Me By Your Name” (adapted screenplay”) and “Jane” (documentary screenplay).
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Over 1,300 people worldwide predicted these WGA winners in three film and seven television categories. The awards ceremony was held on February 11 in New York City (hosted by Amber Ruffin) and in Beverly Hills (hosted by Patton Oswalt). Those three film awards were won by Jordan Peele for “Get Out” (original screenplay), James Ivory for “Call Me By Your Name” (adapted screenplay”) and “Jane” (documentary screenplay).
SEE2018 Writers Guild Awards: Complete list of all WGA winners for film and TV
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- 2/12/2018
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
“Darkest Hour” is the overwhelming Oscar front-runner for Best Makeup and Hairstyling thanks in large part to the prosthetics used to transform lead actor Gary Oldman into British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. This award has gone to a number of films that recreate historical figures over the years, but the motion picture academy has been especially fond of British icons.
Peter Frampton, Paul Pattison and Lois Burwell won for “Braveheart” (1995), about 13th century Scottish warrior William Wallace. But Wallace was actually fighting to free Scotland from English rule, so perhaps we should leave that one out. But just a few years later Jenny Shircore prevailed for “Elizabeth” (1998), which transformed Cate Blanchett into Queen Elizabeth I during the early years of her reign. And one year after that Christine Blundell and Trefor Proud prevailed for Mike Leigh‘s biopic “Topsy-Turvy” (1999), about the British operatic duo of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Only one...
Peter Frampton, Paul Pattison and Lois Burwell won for “Braveheart” (1995), about 13th century Scottish warrior William Wallace. But Wallace was actually fighting to free Scotland from English rule, so perhaps we should leave that one out. But just a few years later Jenny Shircore prevailed for “Elizabeth” (1998), which transformed Cate Blanchett into Queen Elizabeth I during the early years of her reign. And one year after that Christine Blundell and Trefor Proud prevailed for Mike Leigh‘s biopic “Topsy-Turvy” (1999), about the British operatic duo of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Only one...
- 2/8/2018
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
This past week saw a rogue’s gallery of Oscar contenders trek up the coast from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, which is still recovering from the double-whammy of three weeks of fires followed by cataclysmic mud slides. Jeff Bridges’ Montecito home was among the houses buried in mud; his SUV was found seven houses away, but his office and archives (complete with his “The Big Lebowski” sweater) were spared. Among the movies world premiering at the city’s annual International Film Festival Festival under the direction of Roger Durling was Bridges’ environmental documentary “Living in the Future’s Past,” and as always the local community welcomed a stream of Hollywood visitors for a series of illuminating tributes and panels.
Check the videos below.
My “It Starts with the Script” panel featured director Edgar Wright, who attached a music file to his music-driven screenplay for “Baby Driver,” Chicago-born Virgil Williams...
Check the videos below.
My “It Starts with the Script” panel featured director Edgar Wright, who attached a music file to his music-driven screenplay for “Baby Driver,” Chicago-born Virgil Williams...
- 2/8/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
This past week saw a rogue’s gallery of Oscar contenders trek up the coast from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, which is still recovering from the double-whammy of three weeks of fires followed by cataclysmic mud slides. Jeff Bridges’ Montecito home was among the houses buried in mud; his SUV was found seven houses away, but his office and archives (complete with his “The Big Lebowski” sweater) were spared. Among the movies world premiering at the city’s annual International Film Festival Festival under the direction of Roger Durling was Bridges’ environmental documentary “Living in the Future’s Past,” and as always the local community welcomed a stream of Hollywood visitors for a series of illuminating tributes and panels.
Check the videos below.
My “It Starts with the Script” panel featured director Edgar Wright, who attached a music file to his music-driven screenplay for “Baby Driver,” Chicago-born Virgil Williams...
Check the videos below.
My “It Starts with the Script” panel featured director Edgar Wright, who attached a music file to his music-driven screenplay for “Baby Driver,” Chicago-born Virgil Williams...
- 2/8/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Oscar experts Pete Hammond (Deadline Hollywood), Anne Thompson (Indiewire), Tim Gray (Variety) and I agree on who’s ahead to win three acting races: Best Actor (Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour”), Actress (Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”) and Supporting Actor (Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards”), but we differ over the contest for Best Supporting Actress. Pete, Tim and I pick Allison Janney (“I, Tonya”), but Anne opts for Laurie Metcalf (“Lady Bird”).
“Voters are going to want to give ‘Lady Bird’ a win,” Anne explains. Watch our video above or listen to the audio podcast below.
While Pete backs Janney, he concedes, “I agree that this is one category where voters may want to differ from the SAG Awards.”
Click these links to view our rankings in these categories: Best Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress.
Listen to the audio podcast version of our chat below. Do a search...
“Voters are going to want to give ‘Lady Bird’ a win,” Anne explains. Watch our video above or listen to the audio podcast below.
While Pete backs Janney, he concedes, “I agree that this is one category where voters may want to differ from the SAG Awards.”
Click these links to view our rankings in these categories: Best Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress.
Listen to the audio podcast version of our chat below. Do a search...
- 2/7/2018
- by Tom O'Neil
- Gold Derby
In the epic Oscar showdown between Timothee Chalamet (“Call Me By Your Name”) and Gary Oldman (“Darkest Hour”), could the 22-year-old newbie take down the 59-year-old veteran? Chalamet “has been campaigning aggressively,” says Gold Derby editor-in-chief Tom O’Neil in our latest 2018 Oscar predictions slugfest about the four acting races. Watch the video above or listen to the audio podcast version below.
Senior editor Marcus James Dixon agrees that an upset is possible, citing that Chalamet could become “the youngest winner of all time.” However, managing editor Chris Beachum makes the case for Oldman by stating, “He’s really going for it, and he has the transformation.”
We also debate the race for Best Actress, where “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” star Frances McDormand is out front to take home her second statue after “Fargo” (1996). Tom reminds us, “She won her first Oscar years ago for giving us a kind of snarky defiance,...
Senior editor Marcus James Dixon agrees that an upset is possible, citing that Chalamet could become “the youngest winner of all time.” However, managing editor Chris Beachum makes the case for Oldman by stating, “He’s really going for it, and he has the transformation.”
We also debate the race for Best Actress, where “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” star Frances McDormand is out front to take home her second statue after “Fargo” (1996). Tom reminds us, “She won her first Oscar years ago for giving us a kind of snarky defiance,...
- 2/6/2018
- by Marcus James Dixon, Tom O'Neil and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
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