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.
For a veteran actor who has delivered time and time again in such Oscar-lauded movies as L.A. Confidential, Memento and Best Picture winners The Hurt Locker and The King’s Speech, among others, you might wonder how many times Guy Pearce has been nominated…
As 2024 draws to a close, Deadline's film critics have each chosen their Top 3 international movies of the year. A trio of those selected recently made the International Feature Oscar shortlist — though not all titles below were put forth by their country of origin.
Overall, as Deadline's Awards…
Deadline’s film critics have been on the frontlines of 2024’s movie releases since way back at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Since then, they’ve been on the beaches of Cannes, the canals of Venice, the mountains of Telluride and the sidewalks of Toronto, discovering the best the year in movies…
Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director and producer Charles Shyer, whose films include Private Benjamin, Baby Boom and the 1991 remake of Father of the Bride and its 1995 sequel, died Friday. No cause of death was given. He was 83.
The Meyers-Shyer family shared this statement with Deadline: "It’s…
James Mangold has made a career out of versatility in tackling the kinds of movies he wants to do as a filmmaker. In fact. I compared him to Howard Hawks who seemingly could do it all.
That versatility ranges from indie breakouts like his first success H…
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As the town starts to shut down for Christmas break next week, fear not: The Oscar season remains in full force as campaigners know the next two weeks leading up to the start of…
After making the Oscar shortlist of 15 finalists for Music (Original Song) at this year’s 97th Annual Academy Awards, the Motion Picture Academy confirms to Deadline that the shortlisted song, “Forbidden Road” from the Robbie Williams biopic, Better Man has…
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Fans of the popular Sega video game and the first two movies will no doubt be in hedgehog heaven with the out-of-this-world third film, Sonic the Hedgehog 3. The audience always seems to want more, more, more and too often studios misread that as better…
And they’re off.
Awards season just got entirely official with the revealing of shortlists for the 97th Oscars in 10 categories today. See the lists from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences below.
Fifteen movies each are moving forward in the contests for International Feature Film…