Deadline’s Contenders Movie: Los Angeles streaming site launches

Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles welcomed a record 29 of the year’s hottest films from 14 studios and streamers to the stage at the DGA Theater on Saturday. A crowd of key voters from the academy and major guilds spent the day digging into the matter and hearing from the stars and creatives behind the films that made headlines this awards season. Now you can hear from them too.

Panels moderated by the Deadline editorial team feature A-listers including Austin Butler, Jessica Chastain, Eddie Redmayne, Jennifer Lawrence, Florence Pugh, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Ana de Armas, Guillermo del Toro, Janelle Monáe, Rian Johnson. Nikyatu Jusu, Ron Howard, Laura Dern, Danielle Deadwyler, Luca Guadagnino, Laura Dern, Baz Luhurmann, Claire Foy, Kathryn Hahn, Carey Mulligan, Brian Tyree Henry, Ron Howard, Kate Hudson, Ryan Coogler, Angela Bassett, Sarah Polley, Jeremy Strong, Kevin Feige, Park Chan-wook and many more.

James Cameron, Vicky Krieps and Jerzy Skolimowski also attended from virtually all over the world.

They collected feature films from Universal Pictures (The Fabelmans, she said), Paramount Pictures (Babylon, Top Gun: Outsiders), Warner Brothers (elvis), focus functions (Armageddon time), IFC films (corsage), Netflix (The Good Nurse, White Noise, The Wonder, Bardo, Blond, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery), Sony Pictures Classics (Return to Seoul, Living, The Son), Orion Pictures/MGM Pictures/United Artists Release (Up, legs and all, talking women), Apple Original Movies (Good luck), Amazon Studios (Nanny, thirteen lives), Walt Disney Studios (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Avatar: The Way of Water), Mubi (decided to go), Lofty Sky Entertainment (Endless spring) and Sideshow & Janus Films (E.O).

This year’s Contenders LA is sponsored by American Pavilion, Aero, Eyepetizer, Final Draft, FYCit, Michters & Los Siete Misterios, UAR, Netflix and The Watford Group, LLC.

The major LA exhibition follows Deadlines Contenders Film: New York and precedes the virtual events Contenders Film: International and Contenders Film: Documentary, which take place on December 3 and 4, respectively.