‘Wolfwalkers’ Directors On Strong Female Leads And Landing Sean Bean – Contenders Film: The Nominees

In 2017, three actresses from “Saturday Night Live” were nominated in the Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series category for the 69th Emmy Awards. That was half the nominees in that category.

La La Anthony is an actress, a producer, an investor, a mother, and an entrepreneur. The multi-hyphenate truly does it all and she does it well.

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Deadline on Monday launched its streaming site for Contenders Film: The Nominees, featuring all the panels from Saturday’s virtual event the put the awards-season spotlight on 18 nominated films from 11 studios and streamers. A total of 45 stars and creatives plugged in from around the world to help guide the conversations.

Given the seismic impact of the #MeToo movement on the worldwide film industry, it was only a matter of time before the issue formed the basis of a movie. Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman stars Carey Mulligan as Cassie, a young college dropout whose life has been scarred by a mysterious trauma that claimed the life of her best friend, Nina.

Designing the costumes for Emma, the Autumn de Wilde-directed adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic period novel, was a balance between staying true to the era (the early 1800s) while leaving room for some creativity and artistic license, says Oscar-nominated costume designer Alexandra Byrne.

Skye Fitzgerald’s experience making films about human rights issues in the Middle East prepared him for one practical aspect of making Hunger Ward.

It goes without saying that when performer lands the role of a cultural icon, there is a certain amount of pressure. For Oscar-nominated actress Andra Day, she immediately felt it when she found out she was going to play the legendary Billie Holiday in Lee Daniels’ The United States vs. Billie Holiday. “It was all fear for sure,” Day said, laughing.

It’s not often we think of retirement homes as a place of suspense, but Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi and producer Marcela Sanitbanez stumbled upon an occurrence we don’t see daily: An 80-year-old man, Sergio, who is hired by a private investigator, Romulo, to be a mole infiltrating a senior living community suspected of elder abuse.

Based on Jiu Yuexi’s book “In His Youth, In Her Beauty,” the Oscar-nominated Better Days follows Nian (Zhou Dongyu), who is faced with constant bullying from her peers at school. She eventually crosses paths with small-time criminal Bei (Jackson Yee), but before they can retreat into a world of their own they are thrown into the middle of a murder investigation that will change their lives forever.

Any time you get an Oscar nomination it’s exciting, but at the end of the day when one of Hollywood’s biggest stars is singing your praises for your work on their project, its hard to beat that feeling.

Following the devastating 2015 fire at the Colectiv nightclub in Romania, Collective director Alexander Nanau set out to undercover why the victims of the fire were dying at alarming rates months after the incident. What he uncovered was a deep network of corruption.

About as far from a typical Oscar contender as you could imagine, the micro-budgeted Sound of Metal has nonetheless proved to be a genuine long-distance runner since it debuted a year and a half ago at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival.

When it premiered last September at the Venice Film Festival, Regina King’s directorial debut One Night In Miami was an early frontrunner for awards.

Sacha Baron Cohen pointed out during Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees all-day event a unique distinction of his second Borat movie, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.

Time’s Garrett Bradley has become the first African-American woman recognized with an Oscar nomination for directing a feature documentary.

The Oscar category of Best International Feature should be taken literally given the financing and five-year process it took to get it for Bosnia and Herzegovina nominee Quo Vadis, Aida? A consortium on nine countries jumped on board to make the most expensive film yet to come out of Bosnia, but it was well worth the effort as writer-director Jasmila Zbanic explained during Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees virtual event.

Nominated in both the International Feature Oscar and the Best Director Oscar categories, Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round is a life-affirming film that uses an experimentation with alcohol as a means to propel the drama. Throughout, there are elements of tragedy and comedy in a story Vinterberg has called an “untamable beast.” It’s all capped off by a show-stopping sequence that’s hopeful, joyous and also somewhat open-ended.