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The long-delayed Academy Museum of Motion Pictures looks like it is finally ready for its close-up. Ava DuVernay, Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum will be spearheading plans for the gala opening on September 25, 2021 as part of a weeklong program of celebrations leading to its official unveiling for the public September 30…

The 15 shortlisted films vying to become one of the five Best International Feature nominees at the 2021 Academy Awards are a surprising and creatively engaging bunch. Their stories often are drenched in history — much of it tragic and disturbing — and turbulent social and political currents course through any number…

A column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit Voting for nominations for the 93rd annual Academy Awards finally starts today. And you thought this day would never come, right? In the longest season in the modern history of Oscar campaigning, we have now completed six months since the traditional…

The movies are poised for a mood swing. Signs of it were all over the Golden Globes on Sunday. The audience went missing, down a startling 60% in the early numbers. Mired in self-apology, the ceremony chewed its own tail: Something has to be different next year. As for the film awards, they scattered in all…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday revealed the 366 feature films that are eligible for consideration at the 93rd Oscars, which are set to air April 25 live on ABC. The total number of films is up from last year’s 344 films in contention. This year’s list was compiled based on tweaked…

As part of Deadline x Rolling Stone, a special issue of our AwardsLine print magazine dedicated to music in cinema, Noel Murray runs through the 20 Best Oscar music moments. For most of the history of the Academy Awards, the musical numbers have been at once glitzy and sappy, featuring fresh-scrubbed young dancers in…

A word to wise film producers: Start tracking the racial, gender and disability status of your employees now. The film Academy's Aperture 2025 inclusion program is closer than you think. Because once again, an important point is tucked in the fine print. When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. ‘Tis the season to offer your Oscar contenders for free for the whole world to see. In a follow-up to last week’s column where I questioned how Searchlight’s so-called “world premiere,” as listed on the invite for the February 18 event for Nomadland…

I was mulling a New York Post report that half the employees at The New York Times are afraid to say what they're thinking when it hit me.  It’s time for Free Speech Insurance. This is nothing like libel insurance, which protects a publisher, and maybe a writer, from defamation claims. Under a Free Speech policy from…

Lynn Stalmaster, who was the first casting director to receive an Academy Award, died today at home in Los Angeles. He was 93 and his death was confirmed by Laura Adler of the Casting Society of America. Stalmaster had a legendary vision for casting. He is credited with moving Dustin Hoffman into The Graduate…

EXCLUSIVE: The Oscar Animated Feature race just got reduced by one. Paramount and Nickelodeon’s The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run has withdrawn from the competition, so now instead of 27 entries — as the Academy announced on January 28 — there are 26 remaining, providing all of them meet eligibility requirements…

They fill the mailbox daily – the tightly packaged screeners that arrive like welcome anachronisms, some bearing familiar titles (Mank, Soul) but most as strangers (Wolfwalkers, Athlete A). Their sheer abundance reminds us of the creative energy out there; the “out there,” however, seems lost in the mist. "We need…