Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees Streaming Site Launches
deadline.comDeadline has launched the streaming site for Contenders Film: The Nominees, this past weekend’s showcase of 24 Oscar-nominated films and their stars, creatives and craftspeople talking about their roads to the Academy Awards.Saturday’s virtual panels ran the gamut from the cast of the Oscar Best Picture-nominated CODA to the star and director of Bhutan’s first Oscar-nominated film, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, and pretty much everything in between.Panelists included Kristen Stewart and Pablo Larraín from Spencer; Kenneth Branagh and Ciarán Hinds from Belfast; Guillermo del Toro with Nightmare Alley; Jessica Chastain from The Eyes of Tammy Faye; Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson from Summer of Soul; Jonas Poher Rasmussen from Flee; Joachim Trier and Renate Reinsve from The Worst Person in the World; Ariana DeBose from West Side Story; Adam McKay and Nicholas Britell from Don’t Look Up; Paolo Sorrentino and Filippo Scotti from The Hand of God; Kodi Smit-McPhee from The Power of the Dog; Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Hidetoshi Nishijima from Drive My Car; Aunjanue Ellis and Reinaldo Marcus Green from King Richard; Denis Villeneuve from Dune; Javier Bardem and J.K.
Simmons from Being the Ricardos; CODA‘s Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur, Emilia Jones, Daniel Durant and director Siân Heder; and many more.Also joining for the day were the creative teams from Licorice Pizza, Encanto, Coming 2 America and Lunana; documentaries Attica and Ascension; and short films The Dress and Boxballet.Participating studios included Focus Features, Searchlight Pictures, Onyx Collective, Hulu, MGM/United Artists Releasing, Neon, Topic Studios, Participant Media, Disney, Netflix, Showtime, Sideshow and Janus Films, Warner Bros, Amazon Studios, Apple Original
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