Deadlines annual The Contenders London event kicked off this past Saturday, with an all-day lineup of panels featuring top talent, producers and directors from 23 awards-season films and 14 studios. They discussed their movies onstage at the Ham Yard Hotel in front of a full house of BAFTA, guild and Oscar Academy voters.
Click the gallery above to see some beautiful portraits from photographer David Vintiner featuring panelists like A Quiet Places John Krasinski; Green Books Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali; The Favourites Yorgos Lanthimos and Olivia Colman; Black Panthers Letitia Wright; Wont You Be My Neighbors Morgan Neville; Colettes Wash Westmoreland; The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Tim Blake Nelson, Zoe Kazan and Bill Heck; Romas Alfonso Cuarón; White Boy Ricks Bel Powley; The Front Runners Jason Reitman; Destroyers Nicole Kidman and Karyn Kusama; A Private Wars Rosamund Pike and Jamie Dorman; Paddington 2s Hugh Grant; Crazy Rich Asians Michelle Yeoh; Cold Wars Pawel Pawlikowski; Suspirias Luca Guadagnino; and Beautiful Boys Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, Felix van Groeningen and Luke Davies.
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