FILM AWARDS CLEARINGHOUSE: UPDATING BEST PICTURE AND DIRECTOR
With this year's Oscar season underway, I have decided to try a new approach to The Film Awards Clearinghouse. What I will attempt is a weekly update of the Best Picture race and added to that a rotation of the other 9 Oscar races (today it's Best Picture and Director) I'll be following until we get to the turn of the new year. At that point, I'll begin to expand to eventually include all 24 categories.
This week's BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTION race as determined by collating the predictions of :
Film Experience
Film Misery
Anne Thompson/Thompson on Hollywood
Brad Brevet/Rope of Silicon
Sasha Stone/Awards daily
Clayton Davis/Awards Circuit
Kristopher Tapley/InContention-HitFix
Scott Feinberg/The Hollywood Reporter
Peter Knegt/IndieWire
Trailer for "Argo"
BEST PICTURE
1) Argo (last week's spot-1)
2) Silver Linings Playbook (2)
3) Les Miserables (6)***
4) The Master (4)
5) Lincoln (3)###
6) Beasts of the Southern Wild (5)
7) Life of Pi (8)
8) Amour (7)
9) Zero Dark Thirty (9)
10) Django Unchained (10)
11) Moonrise Kingdom (12)
12) Anna Karenina (15)***
13) Flight (13)
14) Promised Land (11)###
15) The Sessions (14)
*** = RED HOT
### = COOLING OFF
"Amour" director Michael Haneke
BEST DIRECTOR:
1) Ben Affleck (2)
2) Paul Thomas Anderson (1)
3) David O. Russell (3)
4) Tom Hooper (6)***
5 ) Steven Spielberg (4)
6) Ang Lee (7)
7) Michael Haneke (5)###
8) Behn Zeitlin (8)
9) Quentin Tarantino (9)
10) Kathryn Bigelow (10)
NEW ADDITION TO TFF HISTORY
I have taken a few moments to add the basic information from TFF #39 top the TFF history page you can find as a part of this blog. That entry is as follows:
2012- Tributes: Marion Cotillard, Mads Mikkelsen,
Roger Corman
Shows:
Argo, Amour, No, The Gatekeepers, Stories We Tell, Rust and Bone, The
Sapphires, Ginger and Rosa, At Any Price, Love, Marilyn, Midnight's Children,
Barbara, The Central Park Five, A Royal Affair, The Hunt, Frances Ha, The
Iceman, Hyde Park on Hudson, The Attack
Guests:
Laura Linney, Ben Affleck, Bill Murray, Dennis Quaid, Ramin Bahrani, Salman
Rushdie, Ken Burns, Wayne Blair, Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig, Gael Garcia
Bernal, Peter Sellars, Serge Bromberg, Ray Liotta, Mark Cousins, Roger Michell,
Ariel Vromen, Michael Winterbottom, Shirley Henderson, Leonard Maltin,
Alexander Payne
Click on the link above to look at a brief hsitory of the festival year by year.
SPC AT 20
Sony Pictures Classics is 20 years old and The Hollywood Reporter has a retrospective about the history of the film distributor/production company. It's interesting and reminds one of how much SPC and TFF have been intertwined the past two decades. Take a look:
ARGO PICTURES
The Playlist posted a slew of stills fro Ben Affleck's "Argo" this week and I though I'd pass on that link:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/25-new-photos-from-ben-afflecks-thriller-argo-20120927
In addition, The Playlist also posted a story this week with three character posters from the film:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/3-character-posters-new-image-for-ben-afflecks-argo-20120925
In addition, The Playlist also posted a story this week with three character posters from the film:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/3-character-posters-new-image-for-ben-afflecks-argo-20120925
OSCAR TALK
Here are your links to Oscar Talk with Anne Thompson and Kris Tapley:
Meanwhile, Sasha Stone and Jeff Wells who have been doing Oscar Poker together for quite some time are apparently doing that no more. Stone tweeting last night that Wells will be continuing tat but that she's moving on to some other podcast(s). This week she posted and Oscar Update with Gold Derby's Tom O'Neil. That's here:
http://ec.libsyn.com/p/f/2/9/f2973e155700d68a/Oscars_Best_Picture.mp3?d13a76d516d9dec20c3d276ce028ed5089ab1ce3dae902ea1d01cc8e37d8cc55fea2&c_id=5002060
COMING ATTRACTIONS
I've been filing away articles for over a year now on films that I think sound like they might be a Telluride possibility for 2013 or even 2014 and I decided to inventory them this past week to get an idea of what had really caught my eye and what I've already begun to obsess over. I found that I had stashed some info on over 60 films. So over the next few weeks I'll be passing along the 10-12 or so films that have really sparked my interest/curiosity and that I think or hope (or both) may show up at The SHOW in the next couple of years.
Beginning with "Child of God" directed co-written and starring James Franco (who was in Telluride in 2009 with "127 Hours") and Tim Blake Nelson (who supported "American Violet" in 2008).
IMDb lists it as a 2013 release and Rabbit Bandini is listed as the lone production company. Rabbit Bandini had a presence at Telluride this year with "The Iceman".
"Child of God's" IMDb entry is here:
"The Counselor" stars Michael Fassbender ("Hunger" 2008 and "A Dangerous Method" and "Shame" 2011) and Brad Pitt ("Babel" 2006 and "Benjamin Button" 2009). It's directed by Ridley Scott which may cut against its Telluride chances but is written by Cormac McCarthy which could be a lure. It's distributor is 20th Century Fix which distributed 2011's "The Descendants". It's currently scheduled for a Nov. 15, 2013 release.
Its IMDb entry is here:
More on Thursday...Have a good week Everyone!
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