CLOONEY AND MULLIGAN HONORED
How hot are TFF #38 Tributee George Clooney and Telluride featured performer (3 straight years with a film at the festival) Carey Mulligan? Aside from the fact that Clooney seems to be headed for a nearly certain Best Actor nomination for "The Descendants" and that Mulligan is part of the Supporting Actress conversation for "Shame" the two will be feted by The Hollywood Film Awards. Clooney will be named Actor of the Year according to Scott Feinberg at The Hollywood Reporter:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/george-clooney-receive-actor-year-246918
Mulligan will also be named Supporting Actress of the Year by the same group according to Hollywood.com:
http://www.hollywoodnews.com/2011/10/10/carey-mulligan-receives-hollywood-supporting-actress-award-for-shame-awards-alley/
In addition to Clooney and Mulligan other TFF #38 film actors who will be honored include Berenice Bejo and Jean Dujardin from "The Artist" and Shailene Woodley from "The Descendants".
Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs) will also be honored for lifetime achievement and "Artist" director Michel Hazanavicius will receive an honor for Breakthrough Direction.
FASSBENDER AND MC QUEEN PART THREE
First they collaborated on "hunger" which showed at the SHOW in 2008. Then their sophomore collaboration is this year's conversation piece (and Best Film of the Year so far, for my money) "Shame". Now comes word that actor Michael Fassbender and writer/director Steve McQueen will take a third spin together.
They are set to film an adaptation of "12 Years a Slave" a true story set in 1841 of a free African-American who was kidnapped and enslaved for a dozen years. Chiwetel Ejiofor is set to play the lead in the film. Find details from Anne Thompson at Thompson on Hollywood (indieWire) here:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/2011/10/11/fassbender_and_mcqueen_set_for_third_collaboration_12_years_a_slave_based_o/
One could expect that if completed in a Telluride friendly time frame and if McQueen and Fassbender provide the same quality with this project as they have provided with their first two joint efforts, then we'll likely see the film in 2012 or 2013 in the San Juans.
Thompson says that the film will start lensing in early 2012.
NEW PAYNE
Another familiar face at Telluride the last three years has been Alexander Payne. Payne has been guest director (in 2009) and was there with "The Descendants" this year. And he may return very soon as it was announced yesterday that he was working on casting for his next project entitled "Nebraska" and that names in play include Jack Nicholson, Robert Duvall and Gene Hackman. Check the story at The Playlist (indieWire) here:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/alexander_payne_trying_to_lure_gene_hackman_out_of_retirement_for_black_and/
Again, at completion and with Payne having had good success at Telluride this year, you'd think that "Nebraska" would be a likely 2012 or 2013 TFF film.
NEW RULE FOR OLD OSCARS
Sasha Stone at Awards Daily has delved deep into the numbers and applied the new Best Pic Oscar rules (5-10 nominations) to some past years. For hoots, take a look at what that might have meant here:
http://www.awardsdaily.com/2011/10/the-state-of-the-race-climbing-the-tree-and-finding-best-picture-branch-by-branch/
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