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UPDATED with latest: The Emmys and the 2023-24 awards season are history, and it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows and nominations dates ahead as we cruise into Oscar season. Check back often for updates. October 24: Sentinel Awards…

Toni Vaz, an actor-turned-pioneering stunt performer who went on to found the NAACP Image Awards, had died. She was 101. A spokesperson told Deadline that Vaz died October 4 at the Motion Picture Fund campus in Woodland Hills but did not provide other details. Growing up in New York City, Vaz’s…

The American Society of Cinematographers is training its career-honor lens on Andrzej Bartkowiak, who will receive the group’s 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award. The longtime Sidney Lumet collaborator will be feted February 23 during 39th annual ASC Awards at the Beverly Hilton.  ASC also said today…

UPDATED with new category: Brush up on those contenders: The Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild has revealed the timeline for its 2025 MUAHS Awards, which celebrate outstanding achievements for make-up artists and hair stylists in motion pictures, television, commercials and live theater. The…

The Property Masters Guild handed out its inaugural MacGuffin Awards tonight in Los Angeles, celebrating significant artistic achievements of property masters in film and TV. Winners lauded at the Belasco Theater included Best Picture Oscar winner Oppenheimer and nominee Poor Things, along with Emmy…

The American Cinema Editors has cut together key dates for its 2025 ACE Eddie Awards. The 75th anniversary gala is set for Saturday, January 18, at UCLA's Royce Hall in Westwood. Nominations for the Eddies, which honor outstanding editing in 13 film and TV categories, will be revealed Wednesday…

Oppenheimer and Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning were among the winners at the 11th Annual Location Managers Guild International Awards Saturday in Beverly Hills. Rachael Harris (Suits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid) hosted the ceremony that’s meant to spotlight outstanding filming locations that sent the…

The Visual Effects Society has named the first honorees who will be feted at a special event in October. Avatar co-producer Brooke Breton, a former SVP Production at James Cameron's effects house Digital Domain who also worked on three Star Trek movies from 1986-91, will receive the 2024 VES Founders…

Winsome Sinclair, a veteran casting professional who worked on scores of films and TV shows — many as casting director — including Malcolm D. Lee’s The Best Man, Steven Spielberg’s Amistad, the Gabrielle Union series Being Mary Jane and a dozen Spike Lee movies, died August 12 of colon cancer on Long…

For a competition series like The Traitors, it’s important for cinematographers Siggi Rosen-Rawlings and Matt Wright to keep the players as immersed in the game as possible. While the players compete in a series of challenges and conspire with each other to root out the traitors, the pair is hard at work…

The first winners of the 76th Emmy Awards were revealed today as the Television Academy unveiled its honorees in the juried categories spanning animation, costume, innovation in emerging media programming and motion design. Netflix toon series Blue Eye Samurai was the lone multiple honoree, and it…

Production designer Ben Norman has been working as a designer of reality show challenges for a few years, though never on a competition quite on the scale of Squid Game: The Challenge. To be fair, there hasn’t really been a reality competition on the scale of the Netflix series before, which brings…