Deadline Advisory: Movie Awards Coverage

Deadline will ramp up its movie awards season coverage starting today. Of course Awards Columnist Pete Hammond will continue to be Deadline’s linchpin to all honors including Oscars, Golden Globes, WGA, PGA, SAG, and the Hollywood arts and crafts.Mike Fleming and Nikki Finke will be weighing in frequently with breaking news and Q&As with major players. And life wouldn’t be worth living without Nikki’s awards show live-snarking… What’s new this year is Nikki’s first annual Oscars event calledThe Contenders on December 10th and 11th at the Landmark Theatre with 11 major and indiefilm studios showcasing their awardscontenders directly to Academy Motion Picture Arts & Sciences members… And, again, there will be awards print editions. For the last2010-2011 movie awards season,Deadline’s Nikki Finkeplanned, designed, and edited 7 Oscar awards publications, as well as 2 Emmy awards print editions. Those 9Deadline publicationsare finalists in the ‘Best Of’ category of the Annual National Entertainment Awards. This 2011-2012 awards season will usher in thepermanent print publicationcalled Awards|Line planned, designed, and written by a mostly freelance staff. It will repurpose online content from Deadline,and some of the freelance content from Awards|Line may be repurposed on Deadine.Once again, therewill be7 Awards|Line print editions coveringproducers,directors, writers, actors,actresses as well as the animation, foreign language, music, specialeffects, cinematography, costumes, and other categories. The first issue is published today.