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Pete Hammond
Awards Columnist/Chief Film Critic
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Pete, widely considered to be one of the pre-eminent awards analysts for both film and television, has for the past 11 years been Deadline's Awards Columnist covering what is seemingly now 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 KCET Cinema Series and the weekly KCET 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.
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Oscar Nominee Josh Singer On The Long & Winding Road To ‘Maestro’; Plus Is A ‘Bullitt’ Remake In His Future? – Behind The Lens
Never say never to Josh Singer, the Oscar-winning screenwriter who spent 10 years in an effort to bring Leonard Bernstein’s life to the big screen. Along the way he worked with some very big names to do it including first Martin Scorsese, then Steven…
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26 More Oscar Nominees Headed To Santa Barbara As Festival Sets Its Panel Participants
If you are nominated for an Oscar this year, you are probably making your travel plans to head to Santa Barbara. That is because the Santa Barbara Film Festival is taking place from February 7-17, and quite frankly if you aren’t there at some point between…
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‘Orion And The Dark’ Review: Charlie Kaufman’s Amusing Script Livens Up Netflix’s Kids ‘Toon About Fears Among The Very Young
Taking a page out of the Pixar playbook and animating entities turned into characters, DreamWorks Animation’s latest feature Orion and the Dark recalls ‘toons like Inside Out and Elemental as it tells the story of a young kid and his encounters with his…
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‘Argylle’ Review: Sam Rockwell Steals Matthew Vaughn’s Twisty Spy Thriller Lock, Stock And Barrel
Sam Rockwell probably isn’t anyone’s idea of a suave secret agent, but that seems to be just the point for director Matthew Vaughn. He cast the Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Oscar winner against type and let him rip with a witty, eminently watchable performance that lets him steal every scene…
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‘Nyad’ Oscar Nominee Annette Bening To Receive Santa Barbara Film Festival’s Inaugural Arlington Award
EXCLUSIVE: Annette Bening, who just received her fifth Oscar nomination last week for her portrayal of champion swimmer Diana Nyad in Nyad, has been named as the inaugural recipient of the Santa Barbara Film Festival’s Arlington Award.
The Arlington…
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Sundance Film Festival 2024: All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews
The Sundance Film Festival has wrapped in snowy Park City, and Deadline was on the ground to watch all of the key films. Here is a compilation of our reviews from the fest, which include festival award winners like Daughters, the documentary that took the Festival Favorite Award, and A Real Pain, which…
‘The Underdoggs’ Review: It’s Snoop Dogg Meets ‘Bad News Bears’ In Very R-Rated, Foul-Mouthed And Funny Kid-Centric Football Movie
If you have any doubt about exactly what you are in for with Snoop Dogg’s first-ever starring role in a mainstream movie, The Underdoggs, you won’t after seeing the disclaimer that pops up on screen at the start of the film.
THE FOLLOWING MOVIE IS RATED-R FOR STRONG LANGUAGE THAT MAY NOT BE SUITABLE…
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Deadline’s Reviews Of All The Oscar Best Picture Nominees
The nominations for the 96th Oscars revealed Tuesday included a diverse mix of Best Picture contenders, from box office blockbusters and festival favorites to sweeping streamer epics and indie darlings.
Deadline reviewed all 10 of the nominees, beginning with Past Lives, when it captured all the…
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Bradley Cooper Reacts To Seven Oscar Nominations For ‘Maestro’, Including Three Of His Own: “It’s Very Surreal”
EXCLUSIVE: Bradley Cooper had a very good morning. Not only did he join Christopher Nolan as the only person with three individual Oscar nominations today for his film Maestro, he also joined a very elite club of actors who have directed themselves into Best…
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Oscar Nominations Analysis: Diverse, Global, Even Funny For A Change As ‘Oppenheimer’ Leads List With Few Genuine Surprises
If this morning’s Academy Awards announcement proved anything, it is never bet against Diane Warren in your Oscar pool. Or John Williams.
Warren’s 15th nomination in the Best Song category (with no wins but an Honorary Oscar to show for it) and…
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WGA Rules Out Potential Oscar Nominees ‘Anatomy Of A Fall’, ‘Poor Things’, ‘Zone Of Interest’, ‘All Of Us Strangers’, Places ‘Barbie’ In Original Screenplay On Ballot
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominations will be announced Tuesday morning, and expected to be strong contenders in the Screenplay categories are Golden Globe winner and BAFTA nominee Anatomy of a Fall in Originals and newly minted Adapted Screenplay BAFTA nominees Poor…
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‘Suncoast’ Review: Nico Parker, Laura Linney, Woody Harrelson In Heartfelt Semi-Autobiographical Story Colliding With Real Life Events – Sundance Film Festival
Laura Chinn’s feature film writing and directing debut hits close to the heart — her heart especially — in a semi-autobiographical story set in 2005 and inspired by her own growing pains at a dark time in her family’s life as her brother is dying of cancer and moved unknowingly into what turned out to be…
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