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UPDATED with latest: The Emmys are history, and film awards season is taking shape — time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows and nominations dates ahead. Check back often for updates. December 2: New York Film Critics Circle Awards 3: Spirit…

Carl Ciarfalio, a longtime stuntman, stunt coordinator and actor who worked with such top names as Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, Ron Howard, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh and many others, has died. He was 72. His wife, Teri Ryan, announced the news on his…

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners was the big winner at the 16th annual Hollywood Music in Media Awards on Wednesday night, picking up three statuettes including Best Score and Song for a feature film and Best On-Screen Performance. The latter two wins were for “I Lied to You,” which was written by Raphael…

Mary Cybulski, a veteran script supervisor who worked on Ang Lee’s Life of Pi and The Ice Storm and many other films and also served as a set photographer for several top directors, died November 8 of glioblastoma multiforme. She was 70. Along with Lee’s films, Cybulski was a script supervisor…

The Cinema Audio Society will present its highest honor to Skip Lievsay at its 62nd annual CAS Awards in the spring. The Oscar winner and eight-time nominee will pick up the 2026 Career Achievement Award on March 7. The veteran re-recording mixer took home a Sound Mixing Academy Award for…

It was quite a day for a pair of Hollywood icons. Five-time Oscar-winning composer John Williams on Monday saw the Hollywood Bowl stage dedicated for him during a ceremony led by the LA Philharmonic. It was a first for the venerable concert hall. Set against the Bowl's historic shell…

Somewhere over the rainbow lies the leading nominee for the 2025 Hollywood Music in Media Awards. Jon M. Chu’s Wicked: For Good starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande tops the field with six noms, edging Sinners with five and F1 and The Ballad of Wallis Island with four each. See the full list…

American Cinema Editors has spliced together the results of its 2025 Board of Directors election, and some history was made. Maysie Hoy has been elected Vice President for a two-year term. Joining with current President Sabrina Plisco and Secretary Lillian Benson, it marks the first time in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Above Below the Line (ABL), a Los Angeles-based agency that represents below-the-line talent for film and television, has brought on Angela Curtis and Melanie Callahan Cammisa as agents. Curtis will represent production designers and costume designers in film and television, and…

When working with a director like Paul Thomas Anderson, it’s important to be ready to pivot to whatever will work best for the scene. As a frequent collaborator of Anderson’s, and the previous editor of Licorice Pizza, editor Andy Jurgensen knows how to best be “fluid” in his work to match his…

A pair of half-century industry veterans are ready for their closeup. The Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild said today that two-time Emmy-winning makeup artist Greg Nelson and two-time Oscar-nominated hairstylist Judy Alexander Cory will receive the group’s 2026 Lifetime Achievement Awards…

Deadline on Friday revealed the films, panelists and performers for Sound & Screen: Film, its annual celebration of the year’s best in big-screen music that this year is set for November 5 in Los Angeles. A total of 12 films will take part in the live, in-person showcase, which will feature…