Schedule, Lineup For Awards Showcase – Deadline

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After sitting it out final yr, Deadline’s Contenders movie collection returns to London at the moment with a robust lineup that includes Ridley Scott, Emerald Fennell, Todd Haynes and Michael Mann among the many panelists attending the awards-season occasion.

Contenders London will get underway this morning at London’s Ham Yard Lodge and can function panels on 13 of the yr’s buzziest movies from eight studios and streamers. Deadline could have full protection of the occasion all day on the web site and on our social channels, the place you’ll be able to comply with alongside utilizing the hashtag #DeadlineContenders.

In difficult occasions, it’s good to know high quality cinema is rarely too distant, with movies from a number of the world’s largest filmmakers on faucet at the moment. Together with Scott’s Napoleon, Fennell’s Saltburn, Haynes’ Could December and Mann’s Ferrari, J.A. Bayona will current his Society of the Snow, Jeymes Samuel will open The E-book of Clarence, Christos Nikou will polish his Fingernails; and we’ll take a deep dive into Nyad with one half of the directing group, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (her directing accomplice, Jimmy Chin, is on task someplace distant, cooking up one other nice documentary to comply with their hits Meru and Free Solo, so we’ll forgive his absence). Additionally on the panelist roster are the groups behind Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and David Fincher’s The Killer.

At press time, there aren’t any actors in at the moment’s lineup, and this yr’s spherical of labor motion has formed the beginning of the awards season inexorably. Nonetheless, as evidenced by the gifted names that can grace our stage, that’s not to counsel that there aren’t thrilling tales to inform with out them.

To wit, you’ll meet Kazu Hiro, the legendary prosthetics make-up designer liable for remodeling Gary Oldman into Winston Churchill just a few years in the past for The Darkest Hour. He’s again at work this yr with Bradley Cooper on Maestro. Ever surprise how Aardman’s animation classics are designed? Look no additional than our panel for Rooster Run: Daybreak of the Nugget, which options manufacturing designer Darren Dubicki. And I can let you know from private expertise that costume designer Janty Yates, a frequent collaborator of Scott’s who labored on his Napoleon, will regale you with gripping tales about her masterful craft.

As for the yr’s largest movie, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, manufacturing designer Sarah Greenwood, costume designer Jacqueline Durran, and hair and make-up designer Ivana Primorac — amongst different panelists — will talk about how they introduced Barbie Land to life on the massive display screen. It’s a testomony to their arduous work that so many people have been capable of do the “Barbenheimer” double invoice earlier this yr with out batting a well-manicured eyelash on the change in tone. Nice cinema is nice cinema, whether or not it’s gritty and historic or pink and fantastical.

Deadline’s Contenders London kicks off with breakfast at 8:30 a.m. native time. See the complete schedule under.

This yr’s occasion sponsor is Eyepetizer.

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9:30 a.m. BST – OPENING REMARKS

AMAZON MGM STUDIOS

Saltburn

Emerald Fennell (Director/Producer)
Kharmel Cochrane (Casting Director)
Suzie Davies (Manufacturing Design)
Victoria Boydell (Editor)
Sophie Canale (Costume Designer)

APPLE ORIGINAL FILMS

Killers of the Flower Moon

Ellen Lewis (Casting)
Rene Haynes (Indigenous Casting)
Jacqueline West (Costume Designer)
Julie O’Keefe (Osage Clothes Marketing consultant)

Fingernails

Christos Nikou (Author/Director/Producer)

WARNER BROS PICTURES

Barbie

David Heyman (Producer)
Sarah Greenwood (Manufacturing Designer)
Jacqueline Durran (Costume Designer)
Ivana Primorac (Hair and Make-up Designer)
Glen Pratt (Visible Results Supervisor)
Nina Rice (Manufacturing Sound Mixer)

TRISTAR and LEGENDARY

The E-book of Clarence

Jeymes Samuel, Author/Director/Producer

COLUMBIA PICTURES and APPLE ORIGINAL FILMS

Napoleon

Ridley Scott (Director/Producer)
Janty Yates (Costume Designer)
Martin Phipps (Composer)
Kate Rhodes James (Casting Director)

NETFLIX

Maestro

Kristie Macosko Krieger (Producer)
Kazu Hiro (Make-up Designer)
Mark Bridges (Costume Designer)
Kevin Thompson (Manufacturing Designer)

Rooster Run: Daybreak of the Nugget

Sam Fell (Director)
Leyla Hobart (Producer)
Darren Dubicki (Manufacturing Designer)

The Killer