Deadline’s Contenders film returns to New York this morning with a hybrid in-person and live showcase at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, and a 23-film lineup highlighting this awards season’s best films. The in-person event kicked off with a United Artists Releasing sponsored breakfast at 8 a.m. ET, with panels and live coverage underway at 9:30 a.m.

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While the supply of films from last year during an awards season besieged by Covid may have dwindled, this year the studios are not holding back. This year’s lineup includes films from A24, Amazon, Apple Original Films, Focus Features, MGM / United Artists, Netflix, Neon, and Warner Bros., as well as a list of panelists including stars Matt Damon, Mahershala Ali, Tessa Thompson, Dakota Johnson, Amy Schumer, Andre Holland, Richard Jenkins, Ruth Negga, Oscar Isaac, Aunjanue Ellis, Haley Bennett, Alessandro Nivola, Ray Liotta and more.

Among the filmmakers present are Janicza Bravo (Zola), Jane Campion (The power of the dog), David Chase (The Many Saints of Newark), Benjamin Cleary (Swan song), Asghar Farhadi (A hero), Maggie Gyllenhaal (The lost girl), Rebecca Hall (Who passed), Siân Heder (CODA), Stephen Karam (Humans), Pablo Larraín (Spencer), Tom McCarthy (Still water), Adam McKay (Do not seek), Jonas Poher Rasmussen (To flee), Aaron Sorkin (Being the Ricardos), Paolo Sorrentino (God’s hand), Liesl Tommy (The respect) and Joe Wright (Cyrano).

As the entertainment industry seeks to thrive safely beyond the pandemic, we have gathered, far from the confines of the home we have been in for most of 2020, in front of the big screen to enjoy the experiences. shared love, triumph, suspense, history and all that cinema has to offer. Theaters, particularly those in New York and Los Angeles, had been closed for a year, but as they reopen and the global box office picks up again, it speaks volumes to the Teflon nature of films, a medium that refuses to accept. ‘to be overwhelmed. by the likes of a pandemic.

For today’s presentation, we moved from the DGA Theater on West 57th Street in Manhattan to the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, which is built on sacred cinema grounds: the Kaufman Astoria Studios campus, which used to be Originally part of Famous Players – Lasky East Coast production plot in 1920. The studio became Paramount after 1927. It is home to hundreds of silent and early sound era productions, including Sherlock Holmes’ first sound film, The return of Sherlock Holmes (1929), the films of the Marx Brothers Coconuts (1929) and Animal Crackers (1930), and later classics like Goodfellas, Carlito’s Way, The Wiz and Hair.

So sit back, whether in an audience or in front of a screen, and stick to Deadline all day on the website and on social media via #DeadlineContenders for full coverage. A streaming site with the 23 panels will launch on Monday at the deadline.

Contenders Film: New York is sponsored by Michter’s Distillery, Los Siete Misterios Mezcal, Eyepetizer and modMD.

Follow the schedule and schedule below.

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Suitors film: New York 2021 timeline
(every hour ET)

9:30 a.m. – Start of the live broadcast

MGM / UNITED ARTISTS RELEASE

9:36 a.m. – 9:46 a.m. – Respect

Liesl Tommy (director)
Tracey Scott Wilson (Writer)
Kramer Morgenthau (Director of Photography)
Ina Mayhew (production designer)

9:47 a.m. – 9:57 a.m. – No time to die

Barbara Brocoli (Producer)
Michael G. Wilson (Producer)
Chris Corbould (Special Effects Producer)
Mark Tildesley (Production Designer)

9:58 am-10:08 am – Cyrano

Joe Wright (director)
Haley Bennett (Actor)
Kelvin Harrison Jr. (actor)

NETFLIX

10:11 am-10:21 am – The hand of God

Paolo Sorrentino (Writer / Director / Producer)
Filippo Scotti (Actor)
Daria D’Antonio (filmmaker)

10:22 am-10:32 am – The lost girl

Maggie Gyllenhaal (Writer / Director / Producer)
Dakota Johnson (Actor)
Peter Sarsgaard (actor)
Affonso Gonçalves (editor)
Olivia Colman (Actor)

10: 33-10: 43 a.m. – Overtaking

Rebecca Hall (writer / director / producer)
Ruth Negga (actress / executive producer)
André Hollande (Actor)
Tessa Thompson (Actor / EP)

10:44 am-10:54 am – The power of the dog

Jane Campion (Writer / Director / Producer)
Tanya Seghatchian (Producer)
Ari Wegner (director of photography)
Benedict Cumberbatch (actor)

10.55-11.05 a.m. – Don’t look up

Adam McKay (Writer / Director / Producer)
Nicholas Britell (Composer)
Hank Corwin (editor)

NEON & PARTICIPANT

11:08 am-11:18am – Flee

Jonas Poher Rasmussen (director)

NEON & SUBJECT

11:19 am-11:29 am – Spencer

Pablo Larraín (Producer / Director)
Steven Knight (Writer / EP)

AMAZONIAN STUDIOS

11:33 am-11:43 am – The Tender Bar

Tye Sheridan (Actor)
Lily Rabe (Actor)

11:44 am-11:54 am – A hero

Asghar Farhadi (Writer / Director / Producer)

11.55 a.m.-12.05 p.m. – Being the Ricardos

Aaron Sorkin (Writer / Director)
Nicole Kidman (Actor)
Javier Bardem (Actor)
JK Simmons (Actor)
Nina Arianda (Actor)

WARNER BROS PHOTOS

12:08 p.m. – 12:18 p.m. – Roi Richard

Aunjanue Ellis (Actor)

12h19-12h29 – In the heights

Olga Merediz (Actor)

12:35 p.m. – 2 p.m. – LUNCH

ORIGINAL APPLE FILMS

2:06 p.m. – 2:16 p.m. – Song of the Swan

Benjamin Cleary (Writer / Director)
Mahershala Ali (actor / producer)

2:17 p.m. – 2:27 p.m. – CODA

Siân Heder (Writer / Director)
Diane Lederman (production designer)

APPLE ORIGINAL FILMS / A24

2:28 p.m. – 2:38 p.m. – The Tragedy of Macbeth

Carter Burwell (Composer)
Alex Lemke (VFX Supervisor)
Michael Huber (VFX Supervisor)

A24

2:41 p.m. – 2:51 p.m. – Zola

Janicza Bravo (co-writer / director)
Jeremy O. Harris (co-writer)
A’Ziah “Zola” King (executive producer / based on tweets from)

2:52 p.m. to 3:02 p.m. – Humans

Stephen Karam (Writer / Director / Producer)
Richard Jenkins (actor)
Amy Schumer (Actor)
Jayne Houdyshell (Actor)

FOCUS FEATURES

3:05 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. – Stillwater

Tom McCarthy (director / writer / producer)
Matt Damon (Actor)

3:16 p.m. – 3:26 p.m. – The card counter

Oscar Isaac (Actor)
Paul Schrader (director / screenwriter)

WARNER BROS PHOTOS

3:29 p.m. to 3:39 p.m. – The Many Saints of Newark

David Chase (creator / producer / co-writer)
Alessandro Nivola (Actor)
Ray Liotta (Actor)