The Film Awards Clearinghouse #3/Nebraska Continues/Llewyn Davis Sings...and a New Coen Film?/THR's Director's Roundtable

Good Monday America...

THE FILM AWARDS CLEARINGHOUSE 2014 #3 PART ONE

Here's the latest update for mid-November

I use the publicly posted predictions of these Oscar experts:

Sasha Stone/Awards Daily

Kris Tapley/HitFix-InContention

Anne Thompson/Thompson on Hollywood

Peter Knegt/IndieWire

Alex Carlson/Film Misery

Nathaniel Rogers/Film Experience

Scott Feinberg/The Hollywood Reporter

Clayton Davis/Awards Circuit

Brad Brevet/Rope of Silicon

The films position on the first FAC is in parenthesis.  Telluride #40 films are Bold.
  
BEST PICTURE

1) 12 Years a Slave (1)
2) Gravity (2)
3) Captain Phillips (3)
4) Saving Mr. Banks (7)
5 ) American Hustle (4)
6) Nebraska (5)
7) Inside Llewyn Davis (6)
8) The Wolf of Wall Street (10)
9) Lee Daniels' The Butler (8)
10) All is Lost (9)
11) Her (13)
12) August: Osage County (12)
13) Blue Jasmine (11)
14) Dallas Buyers Club (14)
15) Fruitvale Station (15)

Hot: Mr. Banks and Wolf of Wall Street
Not: August: Osage and Blue Jasmine

Comment:  No change in which are the most likely 15 films.

BEST DIRECTION

1) Alfonso Cuaron/Gravity (1)
2) Steve McQueen/12 Years a Slave (1)
3) Paul Greengrass/Capt. Phillips (3)
4) David O. Russell/American Hustle (4)
5) The Coen Brothers/Inside Llewyn Davis (6)
6) Alexander Payne/Nebraska (5)
7) John Lee Hancock/Saving Mr. Banks (9)
8) Marin Scorsese/Wolf of Wall Street (7)
9) J.C. Chandor /All is Lost (8)
10) Spike Jonze /Her (NR)

Hot: Hancock and Jonze

Comment: Lee Daniels drops off the top ten.

BEST ACTOR

1) Chiwetel Ejiofor/12 Years a Slave (1)
2) Robert Redford/All is Lost (2)
3) Matthew McConnaughey/Dallas Buyers Club (3)
4) Tom Hanks/Capt. Phillips (4)
5) Bruce Dern/Nebraska (5)
6) Forest Whitaker/The Butler (6)
7) Christan Bale/American Hustle (8)
8) Leonardo DiCaprio/Wolf of Wall Street (7)
9) Oscar Isaac/Llewyn Davis (NR)
10) Michael B. Jordan/Fruitvale Station (10)

Hot: Isaac

Comment: Joaquin Phoenix just barely drops out of the top ten.

BEST ACTRESS

1) Cate Blanchett/Blue Jasmine (1)
2) Sandra Bullock/Gravity (2)
3) Meryl Streep/August:Osage County (3)
4) Emma Thompson/Saving Mr. Banks (5)
5) Judi Dench/Philomena (4)
6) Amy Adams/American Hustle (6)
7) Adele Excahropolous/Blue is the Warmest Color (7)
8) Julie Delpy/Before Midnight (10)
9) Kate Winslet/Labor Day (8)
10) Berenice Bejo/The Past (9)

Hot: Delpy

Comment: The top ten remain the same here as well.

The rest of The Big Eight categories are coming on Thursday.

NEBRASKA CONTINUES

The New York Times talks with director Alexander Payne about the road trip that is "Nebraska":

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/wanderlust-a-road-trip-through-alexander-paynes-nebraska/?hp&_r=1

And the Bruce Dern assault continues as he talks to The Dissolve:
http://thedissolve.com/features/interview/267-bruce-dern-on-the-challenges-of-nebraska/

LLEWYN DAVIS SINGS AND NEWS OF THE NEXT COEN BROTHERS FILM

"Inside Llewyn Davis" folks presented a concert in Santa Monica last week in support of the film.  HitFix has that story:

http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/steve-martin-punch-brothers-and-more-celebrate-inside-llewyn-davis-at-santa-monica-jam-session

Meanwhile, The Coens revealed some thoughts about their latest film project here:

http://moviepilot.com/stories/1176737-coen-brothers-are-working-on-a-new-movie


THR'S DIRECTOR'S ROUNDTABLE (feels a bit Telluride-y)



The annual THR Director's ROuntable was up this week and includes TFF #40 representation from Alfonso Cuaron/Gravity and Steve McQueen/12 Years a Slave.  The video is here:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/roundtable-ben-stiller-alfonso-cuaron-655343?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter


More on Thursday...