Another critics group has weighed in today, as the precursor season continues. This one is the North Carolina Film Critics Association, and their nominees highlighted a contender that’s currently doing a bit better than expected.
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Editor’s note: Judging from last year’s positive response to our Read the Screenplay series, Deadline is kicking off a new season of publishing the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race. Stay tuned for more, but Spike Lee is a pretty good place to start.
Spike Lee struck gold in 2019 when he and collaborator Kevin Willmott, along with Charlie Watchel and David Rabinowitz, took home the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for BlacKkKlansman — Lee’s first-ever Academy
Another critics group has weighed in today, as the precursor season continues. This one is the North Carolina Film Critics Association, and their nominees highlighted a contender that’s currently doing a bit better than expected.
Dr. Sandra Lee, revealed one of her most unexpected celebrity fans is none other than KKW Beauty founder Kim Kardashian.“I wasn’t actually seeing her [as a patient].
Actor Simu Liu is giving great perspective on a very difficult, emotional issue.
WATCH: The moment Georgia Love picked Lee Elliot in The Bachelorette finaleReality stars Georgia Love and Lee Elliot were right there with the best of them.The loved up Bachelorette pair were supposed to celebrate their wedding with an Italian fiesta like no other. COVID-19 obviously saw to that (or the lack thereof).
David Byrne has shared his hopes for a post-Donald Trump America, though admits it is “too early to celebrate”.Byrne was speaking as part of last week’s Big Read cover feature, around the release of his new Spike Lee-directed concert film American Utopia.“For me Trump was not so much a shock; we knew who he is,” Byrne told NME.
Marvel star Simu Liu, who is set to star in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, is being called out for deleting a negative tweet he sent out in 2018 about Mark Wahlberg.
Ahead of filming his upcoming project “Arthur The King: The Dog Who Crossed The Jungle To Find A Home”, actor Simu Liu is addressing his past tweets about co-star Mark Wahlberg.
The New York Film Critics Circle has selected Kelly Reichardt's First Cow as its best picture of 2020. The group gave two awards to Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always (best actress for star Sidney Flanigan and screenplay for Hittman) and Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods (best actor for Delroy Lindo and supporting actor for the late Chadwick Boseman).
The New York Film Critics Circle has unveiled its annual awards, honouring the late Chadwick Boseman with the Best Supporting Actor award for his performance in the Spike Lee-directed “Da 5 Bloods”.
The New York Film Critics Circle revealed their year-end honors and, surprise, Kelly Reichardt’s “First Cow” won Best Film.
Dave McNary Film ReporterChloe Zhao’s “Nomadland” has earned seven nominations for 2020 honors from the Chicago Film Critics Association, followed by six each for Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods,” Kelly Reichardt’s “First Cow” and Charlie Kaufman’s “I’m Thinking of Ending Things.”David Fincher’s “Mank” and Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” took five nominations each. With 28 nominations, Netflix is the most recognized studio, followed by Amazon with 16 and and A24 with 15.
Refresh for updates: Before 2020 rings out, the New York Film Critics are voting in their annual selection. Voting will go on for the next few hours. Already, Delroy Lindo from Spike Lee’s Netflix movie Da 5 Bloods has won Best Actor. Last year Netflix came up as a big winner with Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman winning Best Film and Best Supporting Actor Joe Pesci.
Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series highlights the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorRuth E. Carter made history in 2019 by becoming the first Black person to win an Oscar for costume design for her work on “Black Panther.” It was her third nomination in a career that began when Spike Lee hired her for his second feature, 1988’s “School Daze.” To date, Carter has 66 credits spanning television and film.Is it any wonder that her life and career are now the focus of a museum exhibit? “Ruth E.
“Mank,” David Fincher’s wondrous ode to old Hollywood and “Citizen Kane” screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz. A niche idea for a film, the black-and-white drama was a deeply personal project for the director — his late father Jack wrote the script — and the attention to detail in recreating 1930s Los Angeles was remarkable.
Pam & Tommy.The actors will be playing the former Playboy star and Mötley Crüe drummer in a new original limited series for Hulu, following the pair’s marriage in 1995 through to the birth of their children and the leak of their honeymoon sex tape.Deadline reports that Seth Rogen is also on board to star, playing the man who stole the tape, while the project will be led by I, Tonya director Craig Gillespie, with Rob Siegel on writing duties.The series will be comprised of eight episodes, and
I, Tonya” director Craig Gillespie is teaming up with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg for a new Hulu miniseries project. Sources tell Deadline that Hulu is developing a limited series based on the lives of celebrity couple Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee using the working title “Pam & Tommy” (title subject to change).
EXCLUSIVE: Hulu has had their fair share of high-profile series but the network is now set to profile one of Hollywood’s more iconic couple and the scandal that shook the industry when it comes to celebrity privacy. Sources tell Deadline Lily James and Sebastian are on board to play Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee in a new limited series for Hulu going by the working title Pam & Tommy.