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“This is a love letter to Black women,” Da’Vine Joy Randolph said backstage at the Academy Awards, having just collected her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Holdovers. Related Stories <a href="https://deadline.com/category/news/" class="c-span__link a-font-accent-bold-xs u-color-brand-red u-text-transform-uppercase…

The Holdovers collaborators, director Alexander Payne and screenwriter David Hemingson, are working on another film together—a Western, in fact—and during a Q&A following a screening of The Holdovers at Soho House in West Hollywood on Friday, Hemingson revealed there’s a part earmarked for Paul…

"It genuinely feels like things are happening in real time." That's Da'Vine Joy Randolph's take on how her wise-beyond-years private school cafeteria lady Mary was able to forge a solid chemistry with Paul Giamatti’s curmudgeon ancient civilizations instructor Paul Hunham in Focus Features' The Holdov…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. It was a very big night for 12-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Thursday night. That’s where the Maestro star received the…

Following the announcement of his Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination Tuesday morning, The Holdovers screenwriter David Hemingson revealed to Deadline that some dialogue and scenes were taken verbatim from his own life. Hemingson had originally written a pilot based on his own boarding school…

Back in 2004, during a press tour for Sideways — Alexander Payne's wine-soaked buddy movie starring Paul Giamatti as a depressive divorcé — the filmmaker and the actor were in Omaha in front of an audience. In a moment of showmanship, Payne whipped out a local phone book, declaring Giamatti so…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with The Holdovers, Oscar winner Alexander Payne’s return to filmmaking after a six-year hiatus. The Holdovers, Payne's eighth feature, is a 1970s-set comedy centered around Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti)…

Out of the seven previous feature films Alexander Payne has directed, three of them have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, he has been nominated for Best Director three times and won two Oscars for Adapted Screenplay. That is not a bad track…

Alexander Payne, director of The Holdovers, said he gets pushback for the kinds of films that he makes but he plans to persevere and hopes there will be more space for “human” stories in theaters. "People ask 'How is it you're making these human comedy-dramas? I'm like, 'Why aren't other people?' And…

Born in Omaha, Nebraska, to two parents of Greek heritage, two-time Oscar winner Alexander Payne was awarded Greek citizenship last year around the time he was working on his latest feature, The Holdovers.  In line with the honor, Payne has returned to his adoptive home to present The Holdovers as…

THE HOLDOVERS Section: Special Presentations Director: Alexander Payne Writer: David Hemingson Logline: Alexander Payne’s latest film focuses in the bond that forms between a strict professor at an elite boarding school, played by Paul Giamatti, and a belligerent student (Dominic…

The Telluride Film Festival, a key part of the fall festival circuit launching awards season and perhaps some major Academy Award contenders, announced the wide-ranging lineup of films for its landmark 50th edition. The fest kicks off Thursday and runs…