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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 15 years been Deadline's Awards Columnist covering 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 PBS SoCal Cinema Series and the weekly PBS 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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Kevin Feige Accepts Will Rogers Foundation Pioneer Of The Year, Promises Many More Movies To Come
It seems appropriate that Kevin Feige was the honoree at a dinner that would became the most successful for the philanthropic Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation Assistance Fund in 22 years.
It appears everything the producer and Marvel…
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‘Verity’ Review: Dakota Johnson And Anne Hathaway Play Authors In Psychological Thriller, But Are They Really Alter Egos For Colleen Hoover?
Colleen Hoover had written 16 of her wildly successful romance novels before switching gears in 2018 and taking a shot at writing a psychological thriller, Verity. She even self-published it, and it led to yet another literary triumph, one that seems…
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‘Digger’ Review: Tom Cruise Explodes In Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Surprising And Urgent Disaster Movie Satire
Digger is unlike any film coming from a major Hollywood studio in years, at least in my memory. It makes sense it comes from Warner Bros, which is the one major that seems to take real swings with big budgets, directors and stars in films you might say…
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Oscars: Helen Mirren To Be Campaigned For Lead Actress As Author Patricia Highsmith In Bleecker Street’s ‘A Talent For Murder’
EXCLUSIVE: Helen Mirren may be returning to the Oscar race.
The Best Actress Academy Award winner for 2006’s The Queen and four-time nominee will be campaigned by Bleecker Street and LD Entertainment for Lead Actress at the upcoming 99th Oscars as well as other awards shows this year for her…
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James Gray On Opening The New York Film Festival With ‘Paper Tiger’, Surviving The “Cannes Bubble”, Oscar-Season Hopes And Which Filmmakers Inspire Him – The Deadline Interview
James Gray has quite a track record this century when it comes to appearing in the official competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Starting in 2000 with only his second feature The Yards, he has had six films in competition including We Own The Night…
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‘Heart Of The Beast’ Review: Brad Pitt And A Soulful German Shepherd Struggle To Survive The Wilderness In An Emotional Journey That Will Have You Sobbing
Going to see Heart of the Beast is a dangerous proposition if you don’t want to be seen crying uncontrollably in public. This man-and-his-dog story is an emotional roller coaster that lays it all out there, and I lapped it up just like I did in My Dog Sk…
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‘Forgotten Island’ Review: H.E.R. And Dave Franco Give Life To Gorgeously Animated And Frenetic Toon
You have to give points to DreamWorks’ latest animated feature, Forgotten Island, just simply for being an original from a studio system that rewards familiarity. And it comes from writer/directors Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado who proved with their own sequel, 2022’s Puss In Boots: The Last Wish…
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‘La Bola Negra’ Wins Oscar-Predictive Toronto Film Festival People’s Choice Award
The People's Choice Award from the just-wrapped 51st Toronto Film Festival has gone to Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s La Bola Negra, with first runner-up going to I Play Rocky and second runner-up to Being Heumann.
Also in the awards revealed…
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Toronto Film Festival 2026: Read All Of Deadline’s Reviews
The 2026 Toronto Film Festival kicked off Thursday, September 10, and features a slew of world premieres including the official opening-night film Being Heumann, Oscar winner Siân Heder‘s follow-up to her Best Picture winner CODA. The event’s 51st edition features 10 days of premieres, gala…
‘Magazine’ Review: Lily McInerny And Bright Young Cast Give Flavor To Pre-Digital Vanishing Era Of NY’s Literary World – Toronto Film Festival
Perhaps the title of this Toronto Film Festival premiere says it all. Magazine is a period piece set in a pre-digital world as the long proud tradition of print publications is about to end in favor of quick hits and screen-reading in a new and strange…
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‘All About Corinne’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Shines As Movie Extra With Bigger Ambitions In Delightful Take On French Film Industry – Toronto Film Festival
The great French icon Isabelle Huppert was honored with the TIFF Tribute Performer Award at the Toronto Film Festival this week, and her latest movie, All About Corinne became one of the earliest sales out of TIFF for U.S. distribution with Cohen Media Group buying it. There is a reason for all of…
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‘Up Against It’ Review: Antonio Banderas & Eva Birthisle In Trudie Styler’s Witty Comedy About Divorced Couple Forced To Conceive Baby To Save Their Daughter – Toronto Film Festival
With a concept that is like a twisted version of The Parent Trap, director Trudie Styler’s sly comedy with drama shows what happens when the messy unforeseen circumstances of life and death interrupt a nasty divorce. Up Against It, an apt title, had its world premiere today at the Toronto Film…
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