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Welcome to THE CONTENDERS LONDON IT’S MY GREAT PLEASURE TO WELCOME YOU to BAFTA’s 195 Piccadilly for Deadline’s inaugural The Contenders London event. Deadline has been running The Contenders in Los Angeles for seven years now, offering American voters an opportunity to get up close and personal with the films and talent we think are going to be key players in the annual awards race. And it’s been a dream of ours to bring the event to London to introduce BAFTA, Academy and guild voters in the UK to some of the biggest names in cinema. We think The Contenders is really the best way to get a sense of where to direct your attention over the next six months or so. In an increasingly connected world, the choice for voters doesn’t get any simpler. As new players invest heavily into quality filmmaking, and established studios are charged to raise their games ever higher, the number of great movies released every year grows. So The Contenders offers a snapshot of what’s to come by way of personal interaction with the people behind the pictures. Interviewed on stage by Deadline’s editors, they’ll share clips from their films and give you an overview of what went in to making them. No event like this comes together out of thin air, and so, as I thank you all for coming to our very first The Contenders London, I also want to shout out the people who worked tirelessly to make this a reality. First of all, Madelyn Hammond and Javier Infante, who spent many sleepless nights figuring out every arrangement, making every booking and juggling every minute of the schedule. I also want to thank the teams at DDA PR and BAFTA 195, who have been a joy to work with. And every distributor, production company and artist whose films will appear today, we couldn’t do it without you.
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Morning Presentations 9:55am – 10:10am Bleecker Street/ Participant Media
Breathe
Claire Foy (Actress)
10:15am – 10:40am Amazon Studios
Last Flag Flying
Richard Linklater (Director/Co-writer) Bryan Cranston (Actor)
Wonderstruck
Todd Haynes (Director) Christine Vachon (Producer) Oakes Fegley (Actor) Jaden Michael (Actor)
10:45am – 11:00am Netflix
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Noah Baumbach (Director/ Writer/Producer) Dustin Hoffman (Actor) Adam Sandler (Actor)
11:05am – 11:20am FilmRise/ Bulldog Films
Marjorie Prime
Lois Smith (Actress)
11:25am – 11:40am Walt Disney Studios
Beauty and the Beast
Jacqueline Durran (Costume Designer) Sarah Greenwood (Production Designer) Katie Spencer (Set Decorator)
11:45am – 12:00pm Annapurna Pictures
Detroit
Will Poulter (Actor)
12:05 pm – 1:15 pm CATE R E D LU NCHEO N in the David Lean Room
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Afternoon Presentations 1:30pm – 1:55pm Focus Features
Darkest Hour
Anthony McCarten (Writer/Producer)
Victoria & Abdul
Shrabani Basu (Author of Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen’s Closest Confidant)
2:00pm – 2:15pm 20th Century Fox
War for the Planet of the Apes
Michael Seresin (Director of Photography)
2:20pm – 3:00pm Fox Searchlight Pictures
Battle of the Sexes
Valerie Faris & Jonathan Dayton (Directors) Simon Beaufoy (Writer) Andrea Riseborough (Actress)
Goodbye Christopher Robin
Damian Jones (Producer) Domhnall Gleeson (Actor)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Martin McDonagh (Director/Writer/Producer) Graham Broadbent (Producer)
The Shape of Water
3:05pm – 3:20pm Netflix
Mudbound
Dee Rees (Director/Writer) Jason Mitchell (Actor) Garrett Hedlund (Actor) Jason Clarke (Actor)
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Meet The Contenders Featuring blockbusters, indies and everything in between, the road to awards season begins here. BY JOE UTICHI WINTER IS COMING. And while, for many Londoners, that fact engenders the same sense of serious contemplation as it does in the Westeros of Game of
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Thrones (where the impending arrival of winter means almost certain death at the hands of a horde of reanimated corpses), I have always looked forward
to winter’s arrival in the capital with a mix of excitement and curiosity. Because as I dig out my winter coats and brace for many shiver-inducing nights out, I also look ahead at the imminent release of some of the best cinema of the year, as the road to BAFTA and Oscar picks up speed. For a lover of great
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VETERAN Guest Bryan Cranston is an old hand at Contenders, pictured here in LA.
film, there is simply no better time of year. I suspect many of you can relate, which is why we’re all gathered for Deadline’s inaugural The Contenders London. After many years of running The Contenders in LA (where they get the good films and the good weather), I’m thrilled we’re now able to bring this event to my home city, and the roster of films for our first London event couldn’t be more exciting. It’s a great pleasure to welcome so much local talent to our stage today. Amongst the British and Irish names we can expect throughout the day: Claire Foy, who will intro the great British story Breathe, from director Andy Serkis; Will Poulter, who delivers a truly frightening turn in Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit;
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and Martin McDonagh and Graham Broadbent, whose Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri just won the coveted People’s Choice award at the Toronto Film Festival. Damian Jones and Domhnall Gleeson will bring Goodbye Christopher Robin to the stage, and Brits Simon Beaufoy and Andrea Riseborough will join American directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton to discuss Battle of the Sexes. Representing the true wealth of our local industry’s behind the scenes talent, costume designer Jacqueline Durran, production designer Sarah Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer will walk us through the rich world they created for Beauty and the Beast. And British/Indian author Shrabani Basu will represent Victoria & Abdul, which is based
on her book about Queen Victoria’s close friendship with an Indian servant. From further afield, we welcome to London a whole roster of incredibly talented international names. From New Zealand, writer/producer Anthony McCarten will discuss Darkest Hour, the Working Title film about Winston Churchill, and director of photography Michael Seresin will bring us into War for the Planet of the Apes. Australian actors Garett Hedlund and Jason Clarke will join American director Dee Rees and actor Jason Mitchell to discuss Mudbound. Also from the U.S., we’re proud to welcome Todd Haynes, Christine Vachon, Oakes Fegley and Jaden Michael, who will present Wonderstruck. Noah Baumbach, Dustin Hoffman and Adam Sandler will be here to walk us through The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) and Lois Smith will talk about her stunning turn in Marjorie Prime. There’s a good chance that the eventual winners of some of cinema’s biggest prizes will be amongst the group of people appearing on stage today. At the very least, we hope you’ll come away that little bit more informed about where you might like to direct your votes. So sit back, relax and enjoy as Mike Fleming Jr., Nancy Tartaglione, Diana Lodderhose and I introduce you to the artists and films everyone will be talking about over the next few months. ★
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Bold films and boldface names characterise Deadline’s inaugural line-up for The Contenders London. Read on to familiarise yourself with the movies and moviemakers in attendance today.
BLEECKER STREET/PARTICIPANT MEDIA Breathe British actor Andy Serkis makes his feature directorial debut with this true story of producer Jonathan Cavendish’s father, Robin, who was given only three months to live after being paralysed by polio at the age of 28. Andrew Garfield stars as Robin Cavendish, who would defy his physicians and live for decades longer, along the way pioneering breakthroughs that would increase his quality of life and that of his fellow sufferers. It is, Serkis says, the purest of love stories, since Robin’s wife, Diana (played by Claire Foy), refused to be cowed by his condition, and stuck by his side for the rest of his life.
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The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
AMAZON STUDIOS Last Flag Flying The latest film from five-time Oscar nominee Richard Linklater (Boyhood) adapts Darryl Ponicsan’s 2005 novel of the same name, about a group of Vietnam veterans who reunite to help one of their number bury the body of his son, a Marine killed in Iraq. Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell and Laurence Fishburne play the former soldiers who must re-evaluate their shared experience—and the separate lives lived in its wake—as they grapple with, at turns, the sense of pointlessness and purpose of their service. Ponicsan’s novel is a sequel to his debut, 1970’s The Last Detail, which was adapted by Hal Ashby into a 1973 film starring Jack Nicholson.
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Wonderstruck Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams join precocious talents Oakes Fegley and Millicent Simmonds in this unique tale about a young boy growing up in the Midwest, a young girl growing up in New York 50 years prior, and the mysterious connection they share. Adapted by Brian Selznick from his novel, Wonderstruck is directed by Todd Haynes and made its debut at the Cannes Film Festival this year. NETFLIX The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) Indie auteur Noah Baumbach returns with his Cannespremiering latest, which tells, by way of vignettes, the tale of the Meyerowitz clan and its
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patriarch Harold (Dustin Hoffman), an elderly sculptor whose love for his children apparently extends no further than one of his sons, Matthew (Ben Stiller). But as Matthew struggles with the disproportionate attention—and the associated weight of expectation it brings—for Danny (Adam Sandler) and Jean (Elizabeth Marvel), who have been all but ignored their entire lives, their relationship with their father is just as tough. FILMRISE/BULLDOG FILMS Marjorie Prime Writer/director Michael Almereyda delivers a compelling sci-fi drama based on Jordan Harrison’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated play, which explores memory and identity, love and loss. In a near-future world that allows individuals to create holographic projections of their late family members, 86-year-old
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Marjorie (Lois Smith) opts in to spend time with a younger version of her deceased husband (Jon Hamm). Tim Robbins and Geena Davis also star. WALT DISNEY STUDIOS Beauty and the Beast A live-action retelling of the ’90s Disney animated classic—based on the 18th Century fairy tale by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont—Bill Condon casts Emma Watson and Dan Stevens as the titular beauty and her beast, and the film tells the tale of the burgeoning romance they share as she sees beneath the surface of the misunderstood monster the townsfolk of her village fear. With a classic story and the latest in contemporary world-building effects, Beauty and the Beast became the highest-grossing live-action musical of all time this year, with a box-office take north of $1 billion.
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Darkest Hour
ANNAPURNA PICTURES Detroit Written by Mark Boal and directed by Kathryn Bigelow—a third collaboration for the pair after The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty—Detroit tells the true story of the Algiers Motel incident during the 1967 12th Street Riot in the titular Michigan city. In the similarly uncompromising style of their earlier work, Detroit follows key players on a night of tension and violence that would rock the world, as a group of rogue police officers harass, beat and gaslight the young residents of the motel—most of them African-American, all of them innocent.
of Hitler’s Nazi regime and the impending threat of war. Taking us inside Churchill’s head during one of the most fraught and dangerous moments in world history, the Anthony McCartenscripted story goes beyond the Churchill legend to examine the very human struggles he had to face, as a Nazi victory seemed so perilously close.
FOCUS FEATURES Darkest Hour Gary Oldman disappears beneath masterfully realised makeup to play Winston Churchill in Joe Wright’s retelling of the early days of Churchill’s prime-ministership, as he is forced to contend with the rise
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Victoria & Abdul Judi Dench returns to the role of Queen Victoria, for which she earned her first Oscar nomination with 1997’s Mrs. Brown, for this Stephen Frears-directed true story of the friendship between Victoria and an Indian servant, Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal). A chance meeting—and Victoria’s storied curiosity—led to the Queen welcoming Abdul into her court, against the protestations of the royal household, and the pair became the closest of confidants, even though their time together was limited by Victoria’s advancing years.
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Logan
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20TH CENTURY FOX Logan Hugh Jackman takes his final bow this year as Wolverine—a role he originated for the big screen in 2000’s X-Men—in this James Mangold directed early summer hit, which follows the popular comic-book character in his latter years, as the world-weary Wolverine cares for the ailing Professor X (Patrick Stewart) in a hideout on the Mexican border. When the arrival of a young mutant threatens to bring dark forces to Wolverine’s door, the adamantium-infused hero realises he must fight one more day.
threat from the advanced apes led by Caesar (Serkis), and the apes’ numbers dwindle, Caesar must wrestle with the challenges of leadership, especially as a new enemy (Woody Harrelson) seems determined to forever disrupt the peace the apes seek.
War for the Planet of the Apes The Andy Serkis-led motion capture reboot of the Planet of the Apes series continues with this explosive and affecting third chapter, helmed by Dawn of the Planet of the Apes director Matt Reeves. As humankind continues its aggressive push to eradicate the perceived
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FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES Battle of the Sexes One of the most notorious stories in tennis history is adapted for the screen by Little Miss Sunshine directing pair Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. Emma Stone plays Billie Jean King, the tennis legend who helped establish the Women’s Tennis Association in the male-dominated world of the 1970s, while Steve Carell plays Bobby Riggs, the former men’s World Number 1 and self-styled male chauvinist pig who, in 1973, challenged King to a match in order to prove that male players could dominate their female counterparts. Guess who won?
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Martin McDonagh. As she erects three billboards on the road into her small town criticising the local sheriff for his inaction, the town is aflutter with reactions both positive and negative. But we soon learn that truth is as elusive as justice, and heroes and villains are often one and the same. The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro returns to the delicate scale and personal feel of past works like Pan’s Labyrinth and The Devil’s Backbone with this rich fantasy love story set against the backdrop of the Cold War. Sally Hawkins plays Elisa, a mute janitor at a highly secretive government facility, who is drawn to the water creature (Doug Jones) being studied in the lab’s darkest recesses. As it becomes apparent that the staff of the facility might be the true monsters, torturing a unique and beautiful creature for their own ends, Elisa knows she must act.
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Goodbye Christopher Robin Simon Curtis directs this true story of English author A.A. Milne and the creation of his most famous character, Winnie-thePooh. Domhnall Gleeson and Margot Robbie star as Milne and his wife Daphne, and Alex Lawther plays the titular Christopher Robin, Milne’s young son and the inspiration behind his
Winnie-the-Pooh stories, who struggled with the fame his father’s creation brought to bear. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Frances McDormand plays a mother grieving over the loss of her young daughter to a brutal assault and murder in the latest from In Bruges writer/director
NETFLIX Mudbound Filmmaker Dee Rees directs this adaptation of Hillary Jordan’s novel, a period drama set in post-World War II Mississippi, which tells the story of two men—one African-American, one white—who return home from war to go back to farm work, as they struggle to readjust to the realities of American life and the inherent racism of the South. The film’s all-star cast features Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell, Jason Clarke, Jonathan Banks and Mary J. Blige.
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“‘OKJA’ IS A MIRACLE OF IMAGINATION.’’
“FULL OF SPARKLING, WITTY PERFORMANCES.
BONG JOON HO is a complete master of tone, able to shift sharply between comedy, emotion and action while never feeling out of control. Inventively shot by cinematographer DARIUS KHONDJI, the movie moves from a muted naturalism to garish artificiality with a cohesive ease.”
“THIS BIG-HEARTED BLOCKBUSTER WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK.
A haunting action-adventure film by the dazzling filmmaker BONG JOON HO.”
“MESMERIZINGLY CRAFTED.
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