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George Clooney To Receive AFI Life Achievement Award George Clooney has been selected as the recipient of the 46th annual AFI Life Achievement Award in a ceremony to be held on June 7, 2018.  Clooney…
Film Academy Reviewing Netflix's Eligibility Amid Angst Over Streaming Services As preparations get underway for the 90th Oscar show, the mood of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a whole seems feisty in response…
PBS & CBS Lead The Field Again At News & Documentary Emmys: Complete Winners List PBS and CBS led the way at the 38th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards, which were presented tonight at Lincoln Center in Manhattan. The pubcaster…

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Netflix’s ‘Mudbound’ To Open AFI Fest

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Netflix’s $12.5M Sundance Film Festival acquisition Mudbound will open AFI Fest on Thursday, Nov. 9, the festival announced today. Directed by Dee Rees, and co-written by Virgil Williams and Rees, the historical period drama features cinematography by AFI Conservatory alumna Rachel Morrison (Class of 2006).  Mudbound will play in select theaters on Nov. 17 and simultaneously play on Netflix. It is one of the streaming service’s blue chips this awards season. Carey… Read

Aziz Ansari To Recieve BAFTA LA’s Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award

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Fresh off an Emmy win for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series, Master Of None creator Aziz Ansari has been tapped as the recipient of  BAFTA LA’s Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy at this year's British Academy Britannia Awards. Ansari, who co-starred in all seven seasons of NBC’s Parks and Recreation, is the latest to join the list of honorees, which includes Hollywood icon Dick Van Dyke, who will receive the Britannia Award for Excellence in… Read

Meow! Turkish Cat Hit ‘Kedi’ Leads Nominees For Critics Choice Documentary Awards

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Kedi, an extraordinary documentary about the street cats of Istanbul, leads all contenders in nominations for the second annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards, set for November 2 at BRIC in Brooklyn. With nods for Best Documentary, Best First Documentary, Most Innovative Documentary, Best Director for Ceyda Torun, as well as the Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary honor for its four-legged stars, Kedi made an impressive showing while also clearly… Read

Public Vote Underway For Entertainer Of The Year At 49th NAACP Image Awards

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Writer/Director/Producer Ava DuVernay is among the six nominees for the 49th NAACP Image Awards Entertainer of the Year honors. General public voting is now underway at the Image Awards official web site at naacpimageawards.net through November 17. DuVernay is joined by nominees actor Chadwick Boseman, singer Bruno Mars, actress/producer Issa Rae, entertainer Chance the Rapper, and rapper/entrepreneur Jay-Z. The winner will be announced during the two-hour live TV special… Read

BAFTA TV Awards Adds Short Form Category, Tweaks Drama & Sets Key Dates

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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has set its key dates for the 2018 BAFTA TV Craft and main BAFTA TV awards, ushering in changes along the way. The 2018 Virgin TV British Academy Television Awards will now include a new Short Form category to recognize single shorts, short form series and shorts from a strand from any genre that have been commissioned or premiered on an online or broadcast platform. Further, there’s been a tweak to eligibility for drama… Read

‘Beauty And The Beast’ BTL Artists On Tackling Their First Disney Musical — The Contenders London

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A "tale as old as time"—based on an 18th century fairy tale by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont that was previously adapted into a '90s Disney animated classic—Bill Condon's live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast marked the sole presentation for Walt Disney Studios on Friday at Deadline's inaugural Contenders London event. For those few unfamiliar with Beauty and the Beast, the title sets up the broad strokes of the narrative. The musical depicts the unlikely… Read

‘War For The Planet Of The Apes’ DP Michael Seresin On A Deeper, Darker ‘Apes’ Film — The Contenders London

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With a filmography that includes Midnight Express, Angela's Ashes, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, New Zealand cinematographer Michael Seresin found his most epic projects yet in the updated Planet of the Apes series. Entering the world of the Apes on the sequel—Dawn of the Planet of the Apes—Seresin appeared at Deadline's Contenders London event to discuss how he came to work on the Matt Reeves-directed blockbusters, which see humanity facing off against an… Read

‘Marjorie Prime’ Star Lois Smith On Her “Once-In-A-Lifetime” Journey From Stage To Screen — The Contenders London

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Acting for the stage and screen for six decades—and sharing the screen with James Dean in East of Eden, her first big gig—Lois Smith may have found the role of a lifetime in Michael Almereyda's Sundance-premiering indie, Marjorie Prime. But to be clear, the actress' first experience with the material was on stage in both Los Angeles and New York. Based on Jordan Harrison's Pulitzer Prize-nominated play of the same name, the compelling sci-fi drama boasts a unique… Read

‘Mudbound’ Director Dee Rees On Art’s Role In Reflecting Current Political Moment — The Contenders London

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Premiering at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, Dee Rees' Mudbound was met with a rapturous response from critics and the public alike, acquired by Netflix in one of the biggest deals of the festival. On Friday, at Deadline’s Contenders London event, the filmmaker sat down with several members of her cast — including Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, and Garrett Hedlund — to discuss the project, in a panel moderated by Joe Utichi. A period drama set in post-World War II… Read

‘Breathe’s Claire Foy On Lessons Gleaned From Inspirational True-Life Story — The Contenders London

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Breaking out with a Golden Globe win and an accompanying Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in critically acclaimed Netflix drama series The Crown, Claire Foy has quickly risen through the ranks to become one of the most well known and busiest actresses not only in the UK, but in the entertainment community at large. Recently announced to be taking over the role of Lisbeth Salander from Rooney Mara for the upcoming Girl in the Spider's Web, Foy will… Read

‘Victoria & Abdul’ Novelist Shrabani Basu On The Foodie Project That Became A Judi Dench Film: “It All Started With Curries” – The Contenders London

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After debuting at Venice and Toronto in September, Stephen Frears' playful period drama Victoria & Abdul surprised absolutely no one by immediately becoming one of the awards-buzz titles of the season, scoring a cool $9.4m on release in its native UK. With Oscar-nominated Mrs. Brown star Dame Judi Dench reprising that critically acclaimed film's role as Queen Victoria, Frears' latest tells the little-known story of how the long-reigning monarch – and then-empress of India… Read

‘Goodbye Christopher Robin’ Producer Damian Jones On The Secret Heartache Behind AA Milne’s ‘Pooh’ Stories – The Contenders London

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Everyone knows of Christopher Robin and his best friend Winnie The Pooh, but what few would realize is that, for the close family of British author AA Milne, these characters and their adventures are tinged with sadness. Talking to Deadline's Diana Lodderhose at our inaugural The Contenders London event Friday, the film's producer, Damian Jones, revealed that he, too, was unaware of the real story until he'd read the moving script by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Simon Vaughn… Read

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