FAC Update/All Things Argo/CP5 to Court?/Coming Attractions

Good Monday Everyone, if such a thing is even possible...

Here's this week's FAC on the Oscars for Best Picture as well as Best Actress and Best Actor

BEST PICTURE


1) Argo (1)
2) Silver Linings Playbook (2)
3) Les Miserables (3)
4) The Master (4)
5) Lincoln (5)
6) Life of Pi (7)
7) Beasts of the Southern Wild (6)
8) Amour (8)
9) Zero Dark Thirty (9)
10) Flight (13)***
11) Django Unchained (10)
12) Anna Karenina (12)
13) Promised Land (14)
14) Moonrise Kingdom (11)###
15) Hitchcock (New)***


Dropping Out: The Sessions

Comment: “Flight” takes flight in the last two weeks and the Fox Searchlight announcement that “Hitchcock” will play in awards season has been met with a lot of anticipation. “The Sessions” and “Moonrise Kingdom” suffer as a result.


BEST ACTRESS


1) Jennifer Lawrence/Silver Linings Playbook (1) (Perfect Score)
2) Quevenzhane Wallis/Beasts of the Southern Wild (2)
3) Marion Cotillard/Rust and Bone (4)
4) Keira Knightley/Anna Karenina (5)
5) Emanuelle Riva/Amour (6)
6) Naomi Watts (3)###
7) Helen Mirren/Hitchcock (New)***
8) Meryl Streep/Hope Springs (7)
9) Judi Dench/Best Exotic (New)***
10) Mary Elizabeth Winstead/Smashed (New)***



Dropping Out: Viola Davis, Laura Linney, Maggie Smith

Comment: Two weeks after the first Clearinghouse and no one doubts that Jennifer Lawrence is the odds on favorite to win the category. The “Hitchcock” announcement catapults Helen Mirren into serious consideration.



BEST ACTOR

1) Joaquin Phoenix/The Master (1)
2) John Hawkes/The Sessions (2)
3) Daniel Day Lewis/Lincoln (3)
4) Denzel Washington (4)
5) Bradley Cooper/Silver Linings Playbook (5)
6) Anthony Hopkins/Hitchcock (New)***
7) Jean Louis Trintignant/Amour (7)
8) Hugh Jackman (6)###
9) Jamie Foxx/Django Unchained (9)
10) Bill Murray/Hyde Park on Hudson (8)###



Dropping Out: Philip Seymour Hoffman

Comment: “Hitchcock” momentum in this category puts Sir Anthony Hopkins into play in a serious way. Jackman and Murray seem to be fading. My bet is that the Murray balloon will continue to deflate but that we haven’t seen the last of Mr. Jackman just yet.


ALL THINGS ARGO

With its release this week the "Argo" hype is building dramatically.  I have included multiple links to interviews and other pieces about the film, Ben Affleck and its Oscar status...

http://www.hitfix.com/awards-campaign/clooney-and-affleck-bring-argo-to-hollywood

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox

http://www.freep.com/article/20121007/ENT01/310070054/Ben-Affleck-s-latest-project-Argo-puts-him-firmly-on-Hollywood-s-A-list?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cp

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/oscars-argo-ben-affleck-the-master-silver-linings-playbook-369718

http://millvalley.patch.com/articles/ben-affleck-s-argo-holds-up-to-the-hype-at-the-35th-mill-valley-film-festival

http://www.examiner.com/article/ben-affleck-s-new-film-argo-premieres-beverly-hills

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/ben-affleck-shines-in-front-of-and-behind-the-camera-in-argo/2012/10/05/348aa03c-0cc9-11e2-a310-2363842b7057_gallery.html#photo=1

http://www.deadline.com/2012/10/oscar-ben-affleck-george-clooney-argo-hollywood-premiere/


CP5 SUBPOENAED

A big splash of news out of New York this week that the city had subpoenaed unused film from the TFF #39/Ken Burns Documentary "The Central Park Five".  Movieline included a couple of posts that explained:

http://movieline.com/2012/10/03/new-york-city-subpoenas-ken-burns-film-central-park-jogger-rape-89-central-park-five/

http://movieline.com/2012/10/04/sarah-burns-central-park-five-subpoena-accusations-ken-burns/#utm_campaign=homepage&utm_source=maincolumn&utm_medium=topstories&utm_content=slot5#utm_source=copypaste&utm_campaign=referralhttp://bit.ly/PZsULh


COMING ATTRACTIONS

This week's "Coming Attractions" focuses on recent announcements about the next (well, maybe after "Jane Got a Gun") Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin).  Because it's Ramsay and because she's been a Telluride player and because it just sounds...odd...here it is:

Ramsay is setting up to direct a "Moby Dick" adaptation set in space...I do not lie.

Take a look at this from Get the Big Picture:

http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2012/10/4/we-need-to-talk-about-kevin-director-developing-space-themed.html

and Anne Thompson:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/in-the-works-lynne-ramsay-tackles-moby-dick-her-way-with-sci-fi-thriller-mobius-scott-pictures-to-produce


and The Playlist:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/lynne-ramsays-sci-fi-moby-dick-tale-mobius-gets-backing-20121002

Intrigued?  Confused?  Yes.

More on Thursday...

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