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The Palestinian and Israeli directors of No Other Land, the documentary set in the occupied West Bank, criticized America's foreign policy in the region as they accepted the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature tonight. The quartet of Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal, who are Palestinian, and Yuval…

On Mount Trebević above Sarajevo, a cement monolith snakes through wooded terrain – an elevated channel emblazoned with colorful graffiti. Locals and tourists enjoy walking along the pocked pathway, but a pleasant stroll doesn't come without risk – at given moments, humans sling down it at speeds of…

UPDATED with latest: It’s a new year — time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows and nominations dates ahead as we get deeper into Oscar season and look ahead to the guild awards, Tonys and more. Check back often for updates. RELATED: Deadline’s Complete…

EXCLUSIVE: My Octopus Teacher producer Off The Fence is going deeper into true crime through a development deal with investigative journalists Robin Carter and Gloria Gomez, and is making doc about an unsung modern warfare specialist. Under terms of the pact, OTF will develop and produce…

Fresh from winning the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary at Sundance, Seeds will germinate at True/False, the acclaimed documentary festival in Columbia, MO. Brittany Shyne's film, exploring the experience of Black farmers who till the soil in the South, bows on the festival's opening night on…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nisha Pahuja is partnering with major NGOs to launch a global gender justice campaign inspired by her acclaimed documentary To Kill a Tiger. The #StandWithHer initiative, supported by Equality Now, Equimundo, and MenEngage Alliance, announced three principal…

Slamdance is nearing the final day of its 2025 edition, a historic one for the festival founded in 1995 as a scrappy alternative to Sundance. The cinematic showcase has made a new home for itself in Los Angeles after spending its first three decades in Park City, Utah, very much in the shadow of…

Paramount+ on Tuesday announced Ozzy Osbourne: No Escape From Now, a new documentary that will peer behind the Black Sabbath frontman’s public persona to reveal the devastating setbacks he has faced in recent years amid a number of health issues. Currently in production, the project is slated…

Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline's strand in which, each fortnight, we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films that have had an impact in their local territory. The industry is as global as it's ever been. With breakout hits appearing in pockets of the world all the time, it can be hard to ke…

The Nazi death machine came for the Weber children: Alfons, Senta, Ruth, Gertrude, Renee, Judith, and little Bela, the youngest. But somehow, against all odds, they survived – despite spending part of World War II in Berlin, the steel teeth of the Third Reich. The incredible story of the Weber…

EXCLUSIVE: Three years ago today, Russia launched its hellish full-scale invasion of Ukraine, an unprovoked assault that has killed and injured more than 40,000 Ukrainian civilians, according to the UN. As the war enters its fourth year, there is news about the Oscar-nominated documentary Porcela…

President Donald Trump has made it clear he's siding with Vladimir Putin in the war in Ukraine, thereby endorsing the Kremlin leader's sustained targeting of defenseless civilians in his campaign of annihilation. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights puts the number of Ukrainian civilian…