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UPDATED with latest: The Oscars, strike-delayed Writers Guild Awards and the 2023-24 awards season are history, and it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows, events and the like ahead as we cruise into Emmy season and look ahead to Cannes, the fall film…

The strikes are behind us, Emmy season is upon us, and it’s time to hear from the creatives and talent behind some of the TV season’s most talked-about nonfiction programs. Deadline's daylong Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted virtual event will offer just that this weekend, giving…

Contenders Film: Los Angeles photo studio hosted talent at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles as cast members of Television stopped by including Josh Lucas and Kristen Wiig from Palm Royale; Jimmy Fallon;  Chris Perfetti, Quinta Brunson, William Stanford Davis and Tyler James Williams from Abbott Elementary…

Deadline’s Contenders Film: International award-season event launches Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. PT, the latest in our series of showcases that this time turns the focus toward global cinema via discussions with the casts and creatives of 12 movies submitted by their countries for the 2024 Academy…

Contenders Film: Los Angeles photo studio hosted talent on November 18 at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles as cast members of films stopped by including Cillian Murphy from Oppenheimer; The Color Purple director Blitz Bazawule and actors Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks & Fantasia Barrino; director Cord…

Deadline's annual daylong awards-season kickoff event, Contenders Film: Los Angeles hosted stars and talent of films vying for the top honors during awards season.  Held at the Director's Guild of America in Los Angeles, on November 18, the event featured 28 movies from film studios to promote their latest releases…

Deadline kicked off movie-awards season Saturday with Contenders London, which featured creatives and key craftspeople from 13 buzzy films that will be at the forefront of kudos conversations leading up to the Oscars in March. Click to launch the Contenders London streaming site. A starry…

Deadline Contenders Film returned to London to be the host of an event that would spotlight 13 of the buzziest movies of the year. The lineup included Ridley Scott, Emerald Fennell, Todd Haynes and Michael Mann. Panels at the event taking place at London’s Ham Yard Hotel included Scott’s Napoleon, Fennell's Saltburn…

Moving out of the documentary space with Nyad — the true but lightly fictionalized story of Diana Nyad, an athlete who swam from Florida to Cuba in her 60s — director Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi came to Contenders London with producer Andrew Lazar and Bonnie Stoll, the real-life inspiration for Jodie…

Michael Mann's high-octane sports feature Ferrari has been two decades in the making, and speaking at Deadline's Contenders London event, the director admitted there were times he thought his passion project about the life of Enzo Ferrari would never take off.  "There were numerous times when I…

Spanish director J.A. Bayona talked about the long and arduous journey to bringing air crash survival drama Society of the Snow to fruition at Deadline Contenders London. The immersive drama, which is Spain's Best International Feature Film entry for the 96th Academy Awards, revisits the experiences…

Fresh from a victory tour of the fall festivals, four of the key creatives behind Netflix awards favorite Maestro stopped by Contenders London to reveal some of the secrets behind the scenes. Speaking with Deadline’s Baz Bamigboye, producer Kristie Macosko Krieger, makeup designer Kazu Hiro, costume…