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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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Oscar Producers Announce Team; Hamish Hamilton To Return As Director
The group that will be bringing us the 98th Annual Academy Awards is set and loaded for action.
Oscar broadcast executive producer and showrunner Raj Kapoor and executive producer Katy Mullan today announced members of their production team for…
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‘Melania’ Review: Amazon And Brett Ratner’s Shallow Love Letter To The First Lady’s White House Return Is Self-Serving And Dull
I just paid to go see Melania so you don’t have to. You’re welcome.
Amazon MGM Studios withheld this so-called documentary/infomercial from the prying eyes of critics with not even a Thursday preview. It is a move that doesn’t give one comfort that…
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Diane Warren Speaks Out, Says “Put All The Songs On Or None Of Us” After Oscar Producers Ax 3 Nominated Songs From Live Performance
EXCLUSIVE: Producers of the 98th annual Academy Awards have decided to feature only two of the five Original Song Oscar nominees this year on the telecast.
In a letter to representatives and/or Best Original Song nominees Thursday, those affected…
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Oscar Nominee Ethan Hawke To Receive Santa Barbara Film Festival American Riviera Award
EXCLUSIVE: Continuing a great year, Ethan Hawke is getting yet another honor.
The Best Actor Oscar nominee will receive the American Riviera Award next month at the 41st annual Santa Barbara Film Festival.
Hawke will receive the award February…
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‘Shelter’ Review: Jason Statham Takes Charge Of Orphaned Girl And Goes All John Wick On MI6 In His Latest Relentless Action Flick
When you see Jason Statham starring in a one-word title you know exactly what kind of movie you are going to get, and his latest, Shelter, is right on brand.
For this outing, Statham’s Michael Mason gets company in the form of a young girl named…
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Sundance Film Festival 2026: All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews
It’s the last dance for Sundance in Park City as the indie-focused festival prepares to relocate to Boulder, Colorado, next year. It’s also the first fest to go on without its legendary Oscar-winning founder Robert Redford, who died in September.
The event’s 42nd edition kicked off January 22…
‘See You When I See You’ Review: Jay Duplass And Outstanding Cast Team On Heartfelt Dramedy Inspired By Real-Life Family Tragedy – Sundance Film Festival
Somehow the directing career of Jay Duplass got waylaid for a few years as he explored other creative pursuits. Then, when he was ready to come back calling shots behind the camera, the pandemic and strikes hit, meaning it had been a very long 13 years…
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‘The Weight’ Review: Ethan Hawke And Russell Crowe In Depression-Era Adventure That Is Pure Gold – Sundance Film Festival
Seeing The Weight, which had its world premiere tonight at the Sundance Film Festival, it so reminded me of the kind of solid adventure picture studios used to lure major stars to make, and also the type of period heavily testosterone movie we don’t see…
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‘Run Amok’ Review: Ambitious Teen-Driven Movie About Student Musical Reliving Events Of High School Mass Shooting – Sundance Film Festival
First, don’t be put off by the title. Run Amok, premiering Monday in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival, is not a Chevy Chase comedy from the ’80s. If this sells, that name is the first thing that should be changed, especially for a movie dealing with violence, death, trauma…
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‘Send Help’ Review: Rachel McAdams Turns The Tables On Boss Dylan O’Brien In Sam Raimi’s Delicious Genre-Bending Dark Comic Thriller
The poster for the new dark-comedy, psychological-thriller, genre-bending island survival flick Send Help initially made me think “Oh, this is another Sam Raimi horror film.” How wrong I was, and I hope they aren’t sending the wrong message to others…
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‘The Wrecking Crew’ Review: Jason Momoa And Dave Bautista Are At Each Other’s Throats In Hawaii-Set Action Comedy
Not to be confused with the 1968 Dean Martin Matt Helm spy film The Wrecking Crew, or the 2000 Ice T Wrecking Crew, or even the 2008 musical documentary The Wrecking Crew, this first big teaming of Jason Momoa (Aquaman) and Dave Bautista (Guardians of th…
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‘undertone’ Review: Chilling A24 Midnights Entry Is The ‘Blair Witch’ Of Auditory Horror – Sundance Film Festival
Horror is such an overworked genre these days with every possible variation tried and tried again, every successful franchise running through countless sequels before starting all over again a la Scream, Halloween and more. The “found footage” sub-genre…
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