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Deadline has launched the streaming site for Contenders Film: The Nominees, the Oscar nominees panel showcase that took place Saturday. Click here to launch the Contenders Film: The Nominees streaming site. Cast and creatives from eight Oscar-nominated films sat down for wide-ranging…

When real-life couple Justine Triet and Arthur Harari set out to write Anatomy of a Fall, about a woman on trial for the murder of her husband, they built the story on relationships first and foremost. "The first embryo was the relationship between the son and the mother and the idea of the son…

Five international-themed films are competing for Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards this year, stories set in Uganda, Chile, Tunisia, Ukraine, and India. To Kill a Tiger, which has brought director Nisha Pahuja the first Oscar nomination of her career, centers on a poor couple in the Indian…

“Bobi has inspired our generation and the nation at large," Bobi Wine: The People's President co-director Moses Bwayo said of the famed Uganda performer now politician seeking to preserve his country's waning democracy. "When he got into Parliament and said he wanted to dislodge the dictatorship … we…

Filmmaker Sean Wang’s endearing live-action short Năi Nai & Wài Pó might seem to be perhaps the lightest of all the Oscar nominees in the category, but he had more on his mind in chronicling the lives of his inseparable grandmothers, the 94-year-old Năi Nai…

"It's been really interesting to talk about the film in this personal way, because it really was never meant to be so personal," Elemental director Peter Sohn said at Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees panel Saturday. "The seeds sort of started," the Disney/Pixar vet added of his own Korean…

"It genuinely feels like things are happening in real time." That's Da'Vine Joy Randolph's take on how her wise-beyond-years private school cafeteria lady Mary was able to forge a solid chemistry with Paul Giamatti’s curmudgeon ancient civilizations instructor Paul Hunham in Focus Features' The Holdov…

Joining me in the Apple Original Films portion of Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees were several Oscar nominees for Martin Scorsese’s epic Western Killers of the Flower Moon, and since the film has been nominated for a whopping 10 Academy Awards it…

The Oscar-nominated artisans from Ridley Scott’s epic Napoleon joined me as part of Apple Original Films’ presentations at Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees event. Veteran production designer Arthur Max and costume designers Janty Yates and David…

As we race to the Oscar finish line, it has certainly been a year to remember. The movie business all but shook off the last vestiges of the Covid era with the phenomenon that was Barbenheimer — collectively, Barbie and Oppenheimer earned more than $2 billion globally at the box office. Not only is cinema…

Deadline's Contenders Film: The Nominees is underway Saturday with 12 panels featuring some of the year's biggest crowd-pleasing movies as well as its most artistic critical hits. This final round of Contenders events this Oscar season features virtual Q&A panels with the on-screen stars, creatives and…

Deadline has launched the streaming site for Contenders Film: The Nominees, this past weekend’s showcase of 24 Oscar-nominated films and their stars, creatives and craftspeople talking about their roads to the Academy Awards. Click here to go to the site. Saturday’s virtual panels ran the gamut from the cast of the…