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Since his first film as a screenwriter, The Falcon and the Snowman, nearly 40 years ago, Steven Zaillian has been at the top of the filmmaking game with credits including his Oscar-winning adaptation of Schindler’s List in 1993, plus writing nominations for A…

Right out of the box Lucia Aniello experienced what riding the right horse at the Emmys was like. She became one of the few women to win both Comedy Directing and Writing Emmys, for the first season of Hacks. And the Emmy love doesn’t stop there. After a…

It’s always sunny these days for Rob McElhenney, who is celebrating six Emmy nominations for Welcome to Wrexham including for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program –after seeing the series win five Emmys in January for Season 1. Those wins include a first…

Randall Einhorn has a unique filmography. He currently is Emmy-nominated for directing the Season 3 finale of the ABC comedy series Abbott Elementary, and as an executive producer of the series once again shares its nomination for Outstanding Comedy…

UPDATE: The death on July 5 of Jon Landau has had a great impact on the industry as well as everyone who knew him and/or his work. A veteran studio executive who later teamed with James Cameron to produce and win a Best Picture Oscar for Titanic and then go o…

FX’s Fargo marked its 10th anniversary in April, and creator-showrunner Noah Hawley is still finding new ways to expand its universe including the critically acclaimed fifth season — which is very much in the Emmy conversation right now — just as he…

As I say when I sat down in mid-May at our PMC studio in New York City to interview Shawn Levy for my Deadline Video Series Behind The Lens, this is one busy man. I caught up with him just as he was in the final stages of post-production for perhaps the…

When you get the opportunity to interview Rob Reiner and Albert Brooks together it is indeed a special occasion. And that is just what I got to do earlier this week when they joined me at our Deadline Studio for this episode of my Deadline video series, Behin…

Timothy Van Patten has faced down Tony Soprano, the challenges of Game of Thrones, and all those women on Sex and the City to name just a few of his notable directing gigs. But this season he went in a entirely new direction when he joined with Michael Douglas to present a look at Benjamin Franklin you…

If ever there was a person who deserves the word “legendary” in front of their name, it would be James Burrows, a TV icon who has directed most of the signature comedy series of the past half-century. He has won 11 Emmys on 47 nominations, five DGA Awards…

It might be a cliché to say someone “does it all,” but it is increasingly clear that Thomas Kail is one of those people. As the Tony Award-winning director of the iconic Broadway smash Hamilton and nominated for In the Heights to Emmy-winning success in…

As writer, showrunner and executive producer of Peacock’s hit limited series Apples Never Fall, Melanie Marnich brought a career’s worth of experience to this project, just as she had in so many others in the past and even this year as well with another…