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Joe Utichi
Executive Awards Editor
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Joe oversees Deadline’s awards coverage, including its dedicated print magazine for the Oscar and Emmy seasons, AwardsLine. He also edits Deadline's special “Disruptors” edition for the Cannes Film Festival and serves as the emcee for its Contenders events. He has been aboard since 2012. Prior to joining, his work regularly appeared in his native UK - for outlets including The Sunday Times and The Guardian - and around the world. He has also worked extensively in film and television, producing EPK and production notes and working as a unit publicist. He is a member of BAFTA and has sat on multiple juries for the BAFTA Film Awards.
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Deadline’s Oscars Live Blog
Hollywood, and Deadline’s live blog, returned for the 96th Academy Awards. The sunny skies, and the fact that the 10 Best Picture nominees include several that audiences have actually seen, bodes well for the festivities. Jimmy Kimmel was back as host, and because Donald Trump remains former president…
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Mark Gustafson Dies: Oscar-Winning Director Of ‘Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio’ Was 64
Mark Gustafson, who alongside Guillermo del Toro directed 2022’s Oscar-winning animated feature Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, died February 1 at 64 following a heart attack. Del Toro confirmed the news on social media, writing that Gustafson was “a pillar of stop-motion animation- a true artist. A…
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Deadline’s Primetime Emmys Live Blog
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: awards season. We’ve had the Golden Globes. We’ve had the Critics’ Choice Awards. And now it’s obviously time for the Osca– wait a second, the Emmys?
That’s right, set your clocks back, folks, because tonight we celebrated television favorites that might…
Jamie Bell Grapples With Fatherhood In ‘All Of Us Strangers’, Prepares To Tap Into Fred Astaire, And Is Ready For “Action” As A Director
Spare a moment for the degree of difficulty encountered by Jamie Bell as he grappled with the character director Andrew Haigh had written for him on the pages of All of Us Strangers. How does a 37-year-old actor, best known to audiences for his role as a preteen ballet prodigy, wrap his head around…
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Margot Robbie’s Next Step After Billion-Dollar ‘Barbie’? Not A Straight Dive Into ‘Ocean’s Eleven’: “I Think Everybody’s Probably Sick Of The Sight Of Me”
Ten years on from her explosive breakthrough in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, Margot Robbie has had the moment of her career with Barbie, a project she shepherded to the screen as a producer long before she claimed the lead role. After more than a billion dollars at the box office, Barbie has…
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Deadline’s Golden Globes Live Blog
Here is Deadline’s live blog of the hopefully new and improved Golden Globes. It's a new iteration of the awards on CBS after the Globes' longtime network, NBC, ended its relationship after the awards show's previous management was scandalized by revelations that the now-defunct HFPA had no Black voting me…
‘Flora And Son’ Star Eve Hewson Reveals The Fear She Had To Overcome To Make John Carney’s Irish Musical Drama: “I Was Scared Of Singing”
The ominous task that faced Eve Hewson when she first read John Carney's script for Flora and Son had been accepted before she even realized it.
Sure, she knew Carney's work, almost exclusively delivering features that baked music into the very fabric of their construction. She'd seen Glen Hansard…
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Sofia Coppola On The Roots Of ‘Priscilla’ And Paying Tribute To The Woman Behind The Myth: “It’s So Hard To Fathom That Her First Kiss Was Elvis Presley”
For half a century now, Priscilla Presley has been asked the same question over and over again: "What was it really like living with Elvis?" This year, we've been able to see for ourselves in Sofia Coppola's tender biopic Priscilla, the story of a young girl swept off her feet by the most famous man on…
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Deadline’s Contenders London Underway With Ridley Scott, Michael Mann, Todd Haynes, Emerald Fennell & More
After sitting it out last year, Deadline's Contenders film series returns to London today with a strong lineup featuring Ridley Scott, Emerald Fennell, Todd Haynes and Michael Mann among the panelists attending the awards-season event.
Contenders London gets underway this morning at London’s Ham Yard…
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Richard Linklater On ‘Hit Man’ Premiering In Venice, Cinema’s “Existential Threat”, And Lessons Learned Over 30 Years Of Filmmaking
On its surface, a comedy about a college professor who becomes a phony hitman for the police department to catch criminals hoping to whack a stubborn spouse or bothersome business associate might seem an odd fit for a European festival noted for heavy dramas and extended runtimes. It helps, of course…
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Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Poor Things’ Starring Emma Stone Gets Huge 10-Minute-Plus Ovation At Venice Film Festival Premiere
Dynamic Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos' anticipated latest, Poor Things, got a rapturous reception at after it world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Friday, with an ovation timed at 10 minutes and 37 seconds.
It was one of the most enthusiastic responses to a film some Venice festgoers have…
‘Ferrari’ Gets 7 1/2-Minute Standing Ovation At Venice Film Festival World Premiere
Michael Mann’s Ferrari received a 7 1/2-minute standing ovation Thursday night after the lights went up on the film’s world premiere screening at the Venice Film Festival.
The pic, which is screening in Competition in Venice, was the primetime premiere screening tonight on the Lido, with the film’s…
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