\n\tDeadline has set its lineup for Contenders Film: Los Angeles, its exclusive movie-awards-season showcase for voting guild members that this year takes place Saturday, November 15.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe stars and creatives from 13 buzzy pics from nine studios and streamers are aboard for planned panel discussions to break down the creative paths their projects took to get to this point. That list includes the who\u2019s who of this fast-evolving awards season from Christy\u2018s Sydney Sweeney to Hedda\u2018s Tessa Thompson, Sinners\u2018 Ryan Coogler to Blue Moon\u2018s Ethan Hawke, and No Other Choice\u2018s Park Chan-wook to Sentimental Value\u2018s Elle Fanning to name just a few on the docket for the in-person-only event.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn addition, this year will feature specialized separate panels focused on casting, with that becoming a new Oscar category beginning in 2026, and stunts, which will debut as an Oscar category beginning in 2028. And in a Deadline first, del Toro, a longtime Contenders attendee, will receive the inaugural Contenders Hall of Fame Award.<\/p>\n
\n\tAmong the confirmed attendees for this year\u2019s extravaganza includes Black Bear\u2019s distribution debut Christy, with star and producer Sweeney and fellow producer Kerry Kohansky-Roberts ready to put the gloves on to discuss their true-story drama about the life of boxing champ Christy Martin.<\/p>\n
\n\tAdditionally, a pair of films are set from Amazon MGM Studios: writer-director-producer Nia DaCosta, star-producer Tessa Thompson and production designer Cara Brower will talk all things Ibsen and otherwise for Hedda, while producer Allan Mandelbaum, DP Malik Hassan Sayeed and casting director Jessica Ronane will discuss Luca Guadagnino\u2019s thriller After the Hunt.<\/p>\n
\n\tOther major-studio fare includes Warner Bros\u2019 breakout period vampire thriller Sinners, with writer-director Ryan Coogler himself aboard to discuss; 20th Century Studios\u2019 laser-focused biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, with writer-director-producer Scott Cooper and producers Ellen Goldsmith-Vein set to attend; and a panel in the works for Apple Original Films\u2019 blockbuster racing actioner F1 which has become the highest-grossing sports movie of all time.<\/p>\n
\n\tFrom Sony Pictures Classics comes three pics, with star June Squibb and writer\/executive producer Tory Kamen set to talk Scarlett Johansson\u2019s feature directing debut Eleanor the Great, star Hawke to dive into playing Lorenz Hart in Richard Linklater\u2019s Blue Moon, and Oscar winner Rami Malek and writer-director James Vanderbilt on hand with the intense post-World War II legal drama Nuremberg.<\/p>\n
\n\tNeon, behind last year\u2019s Best Picture Oscar winner Anora, is back with a two-fer of international favorites in Sentimental Value (featuring a panel with writer-director Joachim Trier and stars Elle Fanning, Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd and Inga Ibsdotter Lileaas) and deep-black comedy No Other Choice (with writer-director Park and star Lee Byung Hun set to attend). The pics were submitted by Norway <\/a>and South Korea, respectively, for this year\u2019s Oscar International Feature Film race.<\/p>\n \n\tAdditional films in the mix include another Cannes pic, Dharma Productions\u2019 Hindi-language Homebound, with director Neeraj Ghaywan and stars Ishaan Khatter and Vishal Jethwa; and HS Pictures Studios\u2019 animated fantasy pic Dragon Heart: Adventures Beyond This World with director Isamu Imakake.<\/p>\n \n\tContenders Film: Los Angeles is produced with the support of United for Business<\/a>, Eyepetizer<\/a>, AV8 Group, Four Seasons\u00a0Resort Maui at Wailea<\/a>, Eichholtz <\/a>and Naurelle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deadline has set its lineup for Contenders Film: Los Angeles, its exclusive movie-awards-season showcase for voting guild members…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[31183,31184,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-47925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-awardsnews","tag-contenders-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}