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.
The 2026 Cannes Film Festival is underway with French filmmaker Pierre Salvadori's The Electric Kiss serving as the opening-night pic.
Among the headline filmmakers debuting new works on the Croisette this year are previous Palme d'Or winners Cristian Mungiu and Hirokazu Kore-eda, two-time…
Timing is everything.
It is just pure happenstance that I was asked about a month ago to moderate a conversation with Ann-Margret at a USO ceremony honoring her for all the shows she did for the military and our people in uniform, primarily Vietnam near the start of her career. I had not…
Sam Elliott got his first break, such as it was, as Card Player #2 in 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It might not have been a big role (understatement), but it is in a forever movie classic, so that is something. He has done pretty well…
Veteran filmmaker Ira Sachs returns to a place where his own creative spark was lit, the downtown New York City world where artists of all stripes (and sexualities) from experimental theater to painting to music to poetry and more could congregate and…
Stars Asif Ali who plays Mir and Poorna Jagannathan who plays Auntie Lucky in Hulu’s hit comedy series Deli Boys join me for a special edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side as we go on location to Soho House Holloway for Disney’s Toast to…
You think you know what Andy Garcia’s Diamond is going to be right from the opening scenes as we meet ’40s-style, fedora-wearing private eye Joe Diamond (Garcia), who looks, talks and walks like he is in a film noir, the kind of B&W Bogart and Mitchum…
You might know Domhnall Gleeson from a number of very big-name movies in which he has appeared. They include his General Hux in a couple of Star Wars pics, his Bill Weasley in a couple of Harry Potters, Oscar winner The Revenant, Ex-Machina and any…
Pedro Almodóvar has never shied away from making movies close to himself and the act of making movies themselves. With his latest, Bitter Christmas, he creates the parallel stories of a successful writer-director who is experiencing creative block, and…
For Josh Charles, the time had come to add a little comedy to his life, so the opportunity to star in as well as be a producer (and next season executive producer) on Fox’s newest hit series Best Medicine is a career move right at the best time. The…
Sydney Chandler is carrying on an Alien tradition started by Sigourney Weaver but with a whole new bag as the kickass female lead of the FX series Alien: Earth.
Upon the 2025 debut of its first season, the series became a top-five most-watched…
In his typical spare and deliberate style, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu has crafted yet another Palme d’Or-worthy film that fearlessly treads into controversial issues in our society but pointedly doesn’t take sides. This may frustrate people who…
Much has been written about this year’s Cannes Film Festival being ignored by studios and crowd-pleasing blockbuster-type movies, in favor of the more familiar auteur-driven quieter films. Well, fasten your seat belts. Cannes just unveiled Hope, a sci-fi alien monster mash from South Korean director…