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For a motion picture feature directorial debut, Celine Song is having a pretty good time navigating its afterlife – meaning awards season. She recently won the prestigious Best First Feature Award from the Directors Guild for her debut film, Past Lives. She…

Oscar-winning producer Mark Johnson joins me this week for a new edition of my Deadline video series, Behind the Lens. He has received his latest Oscar nomination as producer of the Alexander Payne film, The Holdovers. Johnson is unique among producers…

Samy Burch has been on a roll this year. It all started at the Cannes Film Festival where her first produced screenplay, May December, landed in competition at the world’s most prestigious and glamorous film festival. Then it was bought by Netflix in one of…

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…

Emerald Fennell has enjoyed acclaim as an actress (this year even appearing as Midge in Barbie) and even an Emmy nomination for The Crown, but she hit the zeitgeist in 2020 when she won the Original Screenplay Oscar and was nominated as Best Director for her…

When talking about Greta Gerwig, it is hard to know where to start. How about becoming the first solo woman director ever to have a billion-dollar grossing movie? How about being the director and co-writer of the highest-grossing Warner Bros movie of al…

Irwin Winkler’s films have been nominated for 52 Oscars including five for Best Picture. They have won 12, and more importantly proved the test of time with enduring status as classics including his Best Picture Oscar winner Rocky, GoodFellas, Raging Bull, Th…

Filmmaker Andrew Haigh has been a critical darling since his 2011 breakthrough directorial achievement with Weekend. He’s won dozens and dozens of awards from film festivals and critics groups over the years for a filmography that also includes such highly…

In a remarkably short period of time Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona (aka J.A. Bayona) has risen to the top of his profession with an international career spanning indie movies to blockbusters and key legacy titles. Beginning in 2007 with his…

So far, Cord Jefferson is having a hell of a feature film directorial and screenwriting debut. His first movie, American Fiction, had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September and came away from it winning the much-desired and often…

James L. Brooks is an icon to be sure, a TV and film legend who has been responsible for some of the most beloved movies and television series of all time. As an individual he holds an Emmy record with the most wins (21 and counting) for shows including The M…

With an Oscar, five Emmys, a BAFTA award and major wins across many top film festivals including Toronto and Sundance, Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi have risen to the top of the list of documentary filmmakers working today. Their celebrated films…