Joe oversees Deadline’s awards coverage, including its dedicated print magazine for the Oscar and Emmy seasons, AwardsLine. He also edits Deadline's special “Disruptors” edition for the Cannes Film Festival and serves as the emcee for its Contenders events. He has been aboard since 2012. Prior to joining, his work regularly appeared in his native UK - for outlets including The Sunday Times and The Guardian - and around the world. He has also worked extensively in film and television, producing EPK and production notes and working as a unit publicist. He is a member of BAFTA and has sat on multiple juries for the BAFTA Film Awards.
Richard Gadd's Netflix hit, Baby Reindeer, produced for a song and released with little fanfare, beat the odds to become a surprise sensation. It made overnight stars of Gadd and his co-star Jessica Gunning, who have been adjusting to life in the spotlight ever since. With the tabloid press, particularly…
Gillian Anderson has been a British national treasure for many years. This may seem incongruous to state definitively of a Chicago-born actress who first rose to prominence playing an FBI agent on a hit network show, but it is what it is. The year The X-Files ended, Anderson moved to London, and she has…
Deadline’s Sound & Screen Television has kicked off at UCLA's Royce Hall for yet another of our showcase awards-season events. Sound & Screen has always been a favorite of the Deadline team, and our audience, not least for the magic it captures when the music behind 10 the year's most exciting television…
Debra Granik put stars like Jennifer Lawrence and Thomasin McKenzie on the map with her films Winter's Bone and Leave No Trace respectively. After Good One premiered in Sundance and then went to Cannes' Directors' Fortnight, there's a sense that India Donaldson has just done the same thing for Lily…
It is three o'clock in the morning at a blackjack table inside Las Vegas's sprawling Caesar's Palace casino. A woman in town on business has just turned a $150 bankroll into $800, and she moves to retire to the nearby bar to buy her work family, whose fortunes at the same table have varied, a…
Read all of Deadline’s Cannes Film Festival reviews below, including Palme d’Or winner Anora.
The New York-set romantic dramedy charts the story of a stripper from Brooklyn who transforms into a modern Cinderella when she meets the son of a Russian oligarch.
The film, playing in the official…
Game, set and match for Tudor Giurgiu, Cristian Pascariu and Tudor D. Popescu, who co-direct Nasty, a pleasingly hagiographic portrait of Romanian tennis icon Ilie Năstase. What fun tennis must have been in the 1970s, as it was on the turn from a knockabout sport into the sharp-footed profession it is…
It has been seven years since Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Emmanuel Lubezki presented CARNE y ARENA at the Cannes Film Festival. In an airport hangar 20 minutes down the coast from the Palais, the pair had created a vast volume with a sand floor as participants strapped into a virtual reality headset and…
Stalwart Sixth Generation Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke leads his partner and muse, Zhao Tao, on a decades-long romantic odyssey in Caught By the Tides, which tries too hard to play with time and form for the connection between its leads to be its central preoccupation.
Measured in silence…
Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski took to the rooftop of the Palais yesterday to visit the Deadline Studio in Cannes, and the high vantage point seemed fitting; the pair are on a cloud after the triumphant premiere of Andrea Arnold’s Bird, in which they both star.
Keoghan tipped his hat to this…
Surreal. That's how Misan Harriman describes his first time at the Academy Awards earlier this year. Six years before, his wife had bought him a Fujifilm X100 for his 40th birthday and encouraged him to start taking pictures with it. Then there he was, surrounded by the global industry's most…
Rithy Pahn returns to Cannes with Rendez-Vous Avec Pol Pot, his continuing journey to process and unpack the horrors of the genocide in his home country of Cambodia enacted by the Khmer Rouge regime. Pahn has dedicated his entire career to this pursuit, having himself been caught up in the Killing Fields…