Deadline’s ninth annual The Contender Los Angeles event is now underway at the newly refurbished DGA Theater in Hollywood. An overflow crowd of Motion Picture Academy members, key guild members and other voters will see a record 20 studios and 38 movies paraded in front of them in the ultimate For Your Consideration event of the movie awards season. Check back on Deadline throughout the day as we cover it all, and follow along on social at #TheContenders.
It is hard to believe this is our ninth consecutive Contenders in Los Angeles, the city where this must-stop on the awards season circuit started it all. In that time it has only grown bigger and better, expanding with the demand to Emmy season and our The Contenders Emmys event in April, as well as to Oscar season events in London and New York.
Increasingly true life stories have become a huge part of awards season, and this one is no different. At least 16 of the films on display deal with real people or real subjects. Some revolve around hot-button topics likeand more that are ripped from the headlines. Expect to see some of the actual people onstage that these movies were inspired by, in addition to the stars who play them.
Movies got personal this year as well and we will explore films taken from the real lives of those actors and directors who lived them, however thinly disguised they may be. Those include Noah Baumbach’s
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