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"You CAN'T TRY TO PLAY A GUESSING GAME," ANNA HIGGS TELLS DEADLINE ABOUT A FIELD DOMINATED BY 'OPPENHEIMER' BUT ALSO LIGHT ON 'BARBIE' AND MANY OTHER AWARDS SEASON NOTABLES |
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer continued its commanding awards showing this morning, clocking a leading 13 BAFTA nominations. Disappearing from the season’s leading pack, however, was Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, which had just five noms after being longlisted in 15 categories. “You can’t try to play a guessing game about what our nearly 8,000 voters will vote for,” Anna Higgs, BAFTA head of film, told Deadline about the nominations and high-profile omissions. “The field is so competitive. This year, our entries are up, so we’ve had more films to consider, but our members have been watching more hours and more films than ever before. We really are trying to level the playing field and see films on their own merit, so there is a broader range of films in there.”
High-profile names also missing in leading categories included Martin Scorsese in best director, and his Killers Of The Flower Moon lead, Lily Gladstone, in best actress. There was also nothing for Todd Hayne’s May December or Netflix’s Nyad, starring Jodie Foster and Annette Bening. Surprise nominations that popped up this morning included Rye Lane’s Vivian Oparah in leading actress. >>>"Something to Celebrate"
More BAFTA Coverage
Complete List Of Nominations
BAFTA Shocker! Snubs & Surprises Include No Lily Gladstone & No Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig Or Yorgos Lanthimos In Best Director
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BAFTA Scorecards: Nominations By Studio & Distributor |
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'Red Hot' Adaptation - Universal Pictures has optioned rights to Anthony Kiedis’ New York Times bestseller Scar Tissue, with the feature film project currently in early development at the studio. It will be produced by Brian Grazer through Imagine Entertainment, Kiedis and Guy Oseary. >>>Unconventional Father/Son Story
'Daily Show' Deliberations - Deadline understands that over the next few months, The Daily Show will focus on its correspondents leading the show through this election year, rather than another phalanx of celebrity guest hosts. This plays into the idea that the show’s permanent host or hosts could already be on staff, a proposal that has been floated within Paramount. >>> Correspondents' Contracts Up
Selena Gomez Revisits 'Waverly Place' - The pop star has boarded a sequel to the show that launched her entertainment career, Wizards of Waverly Place, Deadline exclusively reported this morning. Disney Branded Television has ordered a pilot for the follow-up, which is executive produced by original stars Gomez and her on-screen sibling, David Henrie. >>>New And Returning Cast
Oscars' Global Reach - The move in recent years to give the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences a truly global membership has paid off particularly well this year: Eligible voters from a record 93 countries submitted ballots in the Academy Awards' nominating round, which ended Tuesday >>>Up Significantly
Impending 'Eruption' - The screen-rights auction on the Michael Crichton-James Patterson novel collaboration Eruption will happen in February, in advance of the book’s June 3 publication by Little, Brown. >>>Trilogy Planned
Werewolf In The House - Lionsgate is closing a deal to purchase a package that will have Chandler Baker adapt her short story Big Bad for Chris Landon to direct. Todd Lieberman and Hidden Pictures will produce with Landon. >>>Logline
In Brief - Independent Artist Group signs Shuchi Talati |
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Rob Crabbe discusses jumping from running The Late Late Show with James Corden for eight years to executive producing his first daytime show, The Talk, his reaction when he was first offered the job, the changes he’s made on the show, and what he misses about late night. >>>Read The Interview |
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Exclusive
Straight off her second Primetime Emmy win for HBO’s The White Lotus, Jennifer Coolidge is boarding Warner Bros/Vertigo/Legendary’s feature take of the Minecraft video game that is shooting in New Zealand.
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Jenny Slate is set to star opposite Michelle Williams in Dying for Sex, FX’s limited series from writers Liz Meriwether and Kim Rosenstock, director Leslye Headland and 20th Television.
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Anna Faris has joined the cast of I, Object, the newest feature from Oscar-nominated Gattaca filmmaker Andrew Niccol, first announced during last year’s Cannes Film Festival. She takes over the role from Melanie Lynskey, who departed due to scheduling conflicts.
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Rosa Salazar (Captain America: Brave New World) has booked the female lead in Play Dirty, Shane Black’s crime thriller for Amazon MGM Studios, also starring Mark Wahlberg and LaKeith Stanfield.
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Jim Rash is set to direct his script Miss You, Love You, a drama that will star Allison Janney and Andrew Rannells. Madison Wells, The Walsh Company and Nat Faxon will produce the film that begins production next month in New Mexico.
Forest Whitaker has joined the cast of Emperor of Ocean Park, the new MGM+ suspense thriller inspired by the best-selling novel of the same name from Stephen L. Carter.
In Brief - Vanderpump Rules spinoff The Valley sets cast... Dish It Out starring Tilly Ramsay set at Amazon... Manu Bennett to host CBS reality competition The Summit... Brandon T. Jackson to headline The Family Business New Orleans spinoff |
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More News 🏰 A long-brewing Disney proxy fight has officially begun, with activist investor Nelson Peltz nominating himself and former Disney CFO Jay Rasulo to the board of directors. The media giant earlier denied their request for board seats, so the investors will try to rally shareholders to support their cause. Peltz in a CNBC interview ripped CEO Bob Iger and the current board for presiding over a period of stock price stagnation.
🍿 Andrew McCarthy, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Jon Cryer, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez and other Brat Packers are interviewed in the feature documentary Brats, a revealing look at the cultural phenomenon they became in the 1980s.
⚾ Amazon is investing in Diamond Sports Group, which operates the Bally-branded regional sports networks, as part of a plan for the Sinclair subsidiary to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
🏠 HGTV renewed home renovation series Fix My Frankenhouse for an eight-episode second season.
🎥 Amazon MGM Studios is opening a production hub at Pinewood Toronto Studios in Canada.
🧟 Project X and Radio Silence have entered into a new joint venture with MRC for the production and financing of modestly budgeted genre features. |
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Trending
 The premiere episode of Rob Lowe-hosted The Floor, which aired on January 2, has amassed 4.4M multi-platform viewers after seven days, according to Nielsen data. That’s a 73% boost from the 2.5M who tuned in same-day.
🔻 Pitchfork, one of the strongest music news and reviews publications over its 30-year-old online history, is being folded into men’s magazine GQ. |
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Obituaries
🕯 Peter Schickele, whose comedic parodies of classical music overshadowed his own strengths as a serious composer, died Tuesday at his home in Bearsville, N.Y. at 88. Schickele won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album four years in a row from 1990-1994. He also won in 2000 for Best Classical Crossover album. 🕯 Lynne Marta, an actor who maintained a steady and prolific TV and film career for nearly 40 years best known for roles on Love, American Style and the 1984 film Footloose, died of cancer in Los Angeles January 11. She was 78. 🕯 Martin McCallum, a British theatrical producer whose work on more than 500 Broadway and West End shows saw his participation in some of the most successful stage productions in modern theater history, died peacefully, surrounded by family, on January 14 in Sydney, Australia. He was 73. 🕯 Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2024 Photo Gallery |
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On the Radar
Thu - Sundance begins
Fri - Reacher S2 finale; Real Time returns
Tue - Oscar nominations; NH presidential primary; Netflix earnings |
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Snowdance - As Sundance begins, days of snowfall in and around Park City have seen cars skidding off the mountain roads and traffic backed up due to accidents. Yesterday, there were near-blizzard conditions in the canyons and mountain passes between Salt Lake City and Sundance’s resort home. |
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