Come Sunday, the team behind Train Dreams will finally learn the results of their four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. And, for producer Ashley Schlaifer, it's been a very long road to this moment. The Clint Bentley-directed film premiered at Sundance in 2025, was snapped up by…

After working together on Jockey, director Clint Bentley knew he needed the "story-first" style of cinematographer Adolpho Veloso for Train Dreams. In fact, Veloso's work on the film is almost an extension of his exploration of natural light on Jockey. "What we started on Jockey, and then moved…

The 41st Film Independent Spirit Awards took place Sunday afternoon at the Hollywood Palladium as the organization recognized the year’s best in indie movies and TV. Favorites Train Dreams and Sorry, Baby were multi-award winners, with the former taking home Best Feature, Director and…

KPop Demon Hunters and Sinners scored more music-based awards-season wins Friday at the seventh annual SCL Awards presented by the Society of Composers of Lyricists. The songwriters behind “Golden,” the Grammy-winning global smash hit from Netflix’s juggernaut toon, won Outstanding Original…

EXCLUSIVE: Brazilian Adolpho Veloso, the Academy Award- and BAFTA-nominated cinematographer of Train Dreams, declares that his country has World Cup-like Oscar fever. "This whole Oscar thing is so big in Brazil,” he says, “that people are celebrating everything, like it’s a World…

The 2026 Oscar nominations are out, and here is Deadline’s annual compilation of our reviews of all the Best Picture contenders. Seven of the 10 had their world premiere at festivals: Hamnet played Telluride, Bugonia and Frankenstein were at Venice, Train Dreams bowed at Sundance, Marty Supreme…

On the same day the 2026 Sundance Film Festival kicked off, the Academy this morning announced an impressive four nominations for one of last year's most memorable success stories. Directed by Clint Bentley, who co-wrote it with Greg Kwedar, Train Dreams — the decades-spanning story of a rural logger…

Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella Train Dreams might be a short, stream-of-consciousness narrative about the plight of early 20th Century loggers and railroad workers in the Pacific Northwest, but producers Ashley Schlaifer, Will Janowitz and Marissa McMahon knew there was a movie in it, and sought the…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series highlighting the scripts behind the buzziest movies of the awards season continues with Train Dreams, Netflix’s period drama directed by Clint Bentley, who again collaborated with his Sing Sing co-screenwriter Greg Kwedar to adapt Denis Johnson’s 2011…

The Palm Springs Film Festival is bringing back its Book to Screen program for its 2026 edition, in partnership with Deadline, and on Tuesday unveiled the lineup. Celebrating the intersection of literature and film while fostering meaningful conversations between creators and audiences, the…

EXCLUSIVE: Adolpho Veloso, the acclaimed Brazilian cinematographer who shot Trains Dreams, Clint Bentley's beautifully realized adaptation of Denis Johnson's elegiac novella starring Joel Edgerton, says that the picture's Pacific Northwest locations reminds him of his homeland.  It was where he…

The writers behind the adapted screenplays of the films Frankenstein, Hamnet, One Battle After Another, Peter Hujar's Day and Train Dreams have been nominated for the 38th annual Scripter Awards. This year’s TV nominees are the scribes and authors behind Dark Winds, Death by Lightning, Dept. Q, Slow H…