Deadline is offering up a record number of titles in the lineup for Contenders Film: Los Angeles, which kicks off this morning live and in-person at the DGA Theater on Sunset Boulevard.
The casts and creators from a total of 29 films hailing from 14 studios and streamers will take the stage today to discuss their buzzy awards-season projects in front of a crowd of key Academy and guild voters, as the film kudos season zooms into the fast lane.
If you can’t attend today’s event, you can follow along via livestream, on Deadline.com, and on our social channels using the hashtag #DeadlineContenders.
As for the day, Carey Mulligan, Jennifer Connelly, Jessica Chastain, Guillermo del Toro and Janelle Monáe are just a small handful of the artists that’ll have visited the Contenders stage before we’ve even hit the lunch break. Once we’re all fed, Luca Guadagnino, Claire Foy, Jennifer Lawrence, Angela Bassett and Park Chan-wook will be lifting us away from any suggestion of an afternoon slump.
But Contenders is about discovery, too, so be on the lookout today for newcomers to the race whose careers seem poised to flourish. Gabriel LaBelle is exceptional in his breakout role in The Fabelmans, and we must spare a thought for the pressure that an actor charged with playing the young Steven Spielberg— by Steven Spielberg — must have felt on his first day on set. It’s on Danielle Deadwyler’s extraordinarily accomplished shoulders that Till rests, as she brings us right into the pain and resolve of Mamie Till-Mobley’s fight for justice. And Austin Butler so embodies the king in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis that it’s as though he lives again.
There are so many panels today it’s almost impossible to detail them all. But what’s clear is that cinema is alive and well, in its many forms. From the blast and bombast of Top Gun: Maverick to the surreal serenity of a donkey’s life in Poland’s Oscar entry EO, film is an art form that never ceases to demonstrate an exquisite gamut of stories big and small, global and personal, fantastical and grounded , and tragic and funny.
See the full lineup and panel schedule below for the event, which this year is sponsored by American Pavilion, Aero, Eyepetizer, Final Draft, FYCit, Michters & Los Siete Misterios, UAR, Netflix and The Watford Group, Llc.
UNIVERSAL PICTURES
The Fabelmans
Gabriel LaBelleActor
Judd Hirsch (Actor)
she said
Carey MulliganActor
Zoe KazanActor
Maria Schrader (Director)
PARAMOUNT PICTURES
Babylon
Diego CalvaActor
Justin HurwitzComposer
Mary Zophres (Costume Designer)
Florencia Martin (Production Designer)
Top Gun: Maverick
Miles Teller (Actor)
Jennifer ConnellyActor
Jerry Bruckheimer (Producer)
Joseph Kosinski (Director)
WARNER BROS PICTURES
elvis
Austin ButlerActor
Baz Luhrmann (Co-Writer/Director/Producer)
Gail Berman (Producer)
FOCUS FEATURES
Armageddon Time
James GrayWriter/Director/Producer
Jeremy StrongActor
IFC FILMS
corset
Marie Kreutzer (Writer/Director)
Vicky Krieps (Actor)
NETFLIX
The Good Nurse
Eddie RedmayneActor
Jessica ChastainActor
Tobias Lindholm (Director)
white noise
Noah BaumbachWriter/Director/Producer
Greta Gerwig (Actor)
Danny ElfmanComposer
the wonder
Florence PughActor
Sebastian Lelio (Writer/Director)
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Writer/Director/Producer)
Ximena Lamadrid (Actor)
Daniel Gimenez Cacho (Actor)
Eugenio Caballero (Production Designer)
Anna Terrazas (Costume Designer)
Martin Hernandez (Sound Designer & Supervisor)
blonde
Ana de Armas (Actor)
Adrien BrodyActor
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Guillermo del ToroWriter/Director/Producer
Mark Gustafson (Director)
Alexandre Desplat (Composer)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Rian JohnsonWriter/Director/Producer
Bob Ducsay (Editor)
Kathryn HahnActor
Kate HudsonActor
Janelle Monae (Actor)
LUNCH
SONY PICTURES CLASSICS
Return to Seoul
Davy Chou (Director)
Living
Oliver Hermanus (Director)
Bill Nighty (Actor)
The Son
Hugh JackmanActor
Laura DernActor
Florian Zeller (Co-Writer/Director/Producer)
ORION PICTURES/MGM PICTURES/UNITED ARTISTS RELEASING
untill
Chinonye Chukwu (Co-Writer/Director)
Danielle DeadwylerActor
Jalyn HallActor
Keith Beauchamp (Co-Writer/Producer)
Bones and All
Luca Guadagnino (Director/Producer)
David Kajganich (Writer/Producer)
Trent Reznor (composer/songwriter)
Atticus Ross (composer/songwriter)
Women Talking
Sarah PolleyWriter/Director
Clairedo Foy (Actress)
Ben WhishawActor
Dede Gardner (Producer)
APPLE ORIGINAL FILMS
Causeway
Jennifer LawrenceActor/Producer
Brian Tyree HenryActor
Lila Neugebauer (Director/EP)
AMAZON STUDIOS
nanny
Nikyatu Jusu (Writer/Director)
Anna Diop (Actor)
Thirteen Lives
Ron Howard (Director/Producer)
James D. Wilcox (Editor)
Oliver Tarney (Supervising Sound Editor)
Rachael Tate (Supervising Sousorry and Editor)
Benjamin Wallfisch (composer)
APPLE ORIGINAL FILMS
lucky
Peggy HolmesDirector
WALT DISNEY STUDIOS
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Ryan Coogler (Co-Writer/Director)
Kevin Feige (Producer)
Angela BassettActor
Danai Gurira (Actor)
Avatar: The Way of Water
James CameronWriter/Director/Producer
Russell Carpenter (cinematographer)
Deborah L. Scott (Costume Designer)
Dylan Cole (Production Designer)
MUBI
Decision to leave
Park Chan-wook (Co-Writer/Director)
LOFTY SKY ENTERTAINMENT
Eternal Spring
Jason LoftusWriter/Director/Producer
SIDESHOW & JANUS FILMS
EO
Jerzy Skolimowski (Writer/Director/Producer)
Ewa Piaskowska (Writer/Producer)
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