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Pete Hammond
Awards Columnist/Chief Film Critic
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Pete, widely considered to be one of the pre-eminent awards analysts for both film and television, has for the past 14 years been Deadline's Awards Columnist covering the year-round Oscar and Emmy seasons. He is also Deadline's Chief Film Critic, having previously reviewed films for MovieLine, Boxoffice magazine, Backstage, Hollywood.com and Maxim, as well as Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide for which he was a contributing editor. In addition to writing, Pete is also host of the PBS SoCal Cinema Series and the weekly PBS television series "Must See Movies." He previously held producing positions at "Entertainment Tonight", "Extra," "Access Hollywood," "The Arsenio Hall Show," "The Martin Short Show" and AMC Networks and is the recipient of five Emmy nominations for writing. Pete is only the second journalist to have received the Publicists Guild of America’s Press Award twice, in 1996 and 2013.
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Sofia Vergara On Transforming Into Cartel Leader For ‘Griselda’ & Why Jennifer Aniston Was Key In Taking On Her First Big Dramatic Role – The Actor’s Side
During Modern Family‘s 250-episode run on ABC, Sofia Vergara not only received four Emmy nominations and four Golden Globe nominations but became the highest-paid woman on television. Since 2020, she also has been seen regularly as a judge on another…
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‘Bad Boys: Ride Or Die’ Review: Will Smith & Martin Lawrence In Over-The-Top But Fun 4th Time Around As Miami’s Memorable Cop Duo
It may all be ridiculous if you think about it too much, but this action-comedy franchise still has gas in the tank 30 years after the fortuitous teaming of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence first hit the beat as notorious Miami cops aka the “Bad Boys.”
Perhaps the most action-packed edition yet, Bad Boy…
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Thomas Kail On Hitting The Heights On Stage, TV & Movies From ‘Hamilton’ To ‘We Were The Lucky Ones’ To Upcoming Live-Action ‘Moana’ – Behind The Lens
It might be a cliché to say someone “does it all,” but it is increasingly clear that Thomas Kail is one of those people. As the Tony Award-winning director of the iconic Broadway smash Hamilton and nominated for In the Heights to Emmy-winning success in…
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Melanie Marnich On ‘Apples Never Fall’, Luring Annette Bening To TV & The Magic Touch Of Liane Moriarty – Behind The Lens
As writer, showrunner and executive producer of Peacock’s hit limited series Apples Never Fall, Melanie Marnich brought a career’s worth of experience to this project, just as she had in so many others in the past and even this year as well with another…
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‘Young Woman And The Sea’ Review: Daisy Ridley Inspires As First Woman To Swim English Channel In Disney’s Splendid Biopic
There was a time when Disney made ideal family movies that weren’t animated, or live action reboots of animated films. In fact, there was a time when Walt Disney would take on original live action true stories designed for the whole family to enjoy.
Now, thanks to the efforts of director Joachim…
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‘Summer Camp’ Review: Diane Keaton And Septuagenarian Cast In Another By-The-Numbers Senior Comedy Attempt To Get Laughs From Boomers
It is a sad state of affairs in Hollywood when you can have such talented actors as Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard, but the best you can do is stick them in boomer-baiting forgettable comedic contrivances like Summer Camp, the latest in a long line of movies for Keaton, who also is a producer…
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‘The Great Lillian Hall’ Review: Jessica Lange Is Incandescent As Legendary Stage Actress Facing Dementia
I am a sucker for movies about Broadway and those who spend their lives in the theatre. Of course the crown jewel of the genre is the Oscar-winning All About Eve, but there are so many others including 1933’s Morning Glory which won a young Katherine Hepburn her first Academy Award, as well as its rarely…
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Elizabeth Debicki On The Emotional Toll Playing Princess Di In ‘The Crown’, A Possible Return To ‘The Night Manager’ & The Christopher Nolan Film Role That Still Has Her Puzzled – The Actor’s Side
Joining me for this week’s edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, Elizabeth Debicki downloads her experience playing Princess Diana in The Crown, two seasons of the most emotional moments in the beloved Royal’s life, and the toll it took…
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Cannes Film Festival 2024: Read All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews, Including Palme d’Or Winner ‘Anora’
Read all of Deadline’s Cannes Film Festival reviews below, including Palme d’Or winner Anora.
The New York-set romantic dramedy charts the story of a stripper from Brooklyn who transforms into a modern Cinderella when she meets the son of a Russian oligarch.
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Will Cannes Film Festival Continue Its Fast & Furious Journey To Crash The Oscar Race? Who Might Be Going All The Way To The Dolby?
No one really expected this year’s Cannes Film Festival to replicate the stellar showing of last year at the Oscars, when official selections Killers of the Flower Moon, Anatomy of a Fall, and The Zone of Interest took an unprecedented three of the 10 Best…
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‘Blue Sun Palace’ Review: Critics Week Award Winner Tells Story Of Grief And Rebirth In New York Chinese Community – Cannes Film Festival
Blue Sun Palace was one of the prize winners at the recently concluded Cannes Film Festival, where it took the French Touch Award for the Critics’ Week selections (Simon of the Mountain took the Grand Prize, the other major award from the section). “French…
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From His Oscar-Nominated ‘Philadelphia’ Screenplay To His Memoir & Acclaimed Series ‘Fellow Travelers’, Ron Nyswaner Has A Lot To Say – Behind The Lens
This week beginning May 30, Amazon will be selling Ron Nyswaner’s 2004 book Blue Days, Black Nights: A Memoir of Desire, a deeply personal look at the journey of its author who continues to be a leading voice in movies and television with a rich and varied…
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