12 YEARS WINS BEST PICTURE AND TELLURIDE DOES IT AGAIN.
For the fifth time in the last six years the Telluride Film Festival served as a conduit to the Oscar winner for Best Picture as Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" deservedly won Best Picture last night. The run has been impressive:
2013-"12 Years a Slave"
2012-"Argo"
2011-"The Artist"
2010-"The King's Speech"
2008-"Slumdog Millionaire"
"The Hurt Locker" won in 2009.
"12 Years" also picked up Oscars for Lupita Nyong'o for Best Supporting Actress and for John Ridley for Best Adapted Screenplay.
"Gravity"...the other "Telluride" film expected to have a good Oscar night...did. Winning Best Director, Film Editing, Cinematography, Visual Effects, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing and Original Score for a total of seven Oscars.
That means 10 Oscars for TFF #40 films. We knew it was a grand year when we were there!
"Dallas Buyers Club" picked up three Oscars: Matthew McConaughey for Best Actor, Jared Leto for Supporting Actor and Makeup/Hair
"Frozen" wins two: Best Animated Feature and Song.
"The Great Gatsby" won two for Production Design and Costumes.
The other feature winners were Cate Blanchett for Best Actress for "Blue Jasmine" and Spike Jonze winning for Original Screenplay for "Her".
Night of futility for "American Hustle" which went 0-10. "Nebraska" 0-6 and "Capt. Phillips" 0-5 and "Wolf of Wall Street" 0-5.
THE FAC ON A HOT STREAK
The normally 75% accurate Film Awards Clearinghouse went 22 of 24 last night...a whopping 92%. The FAC missed Animated Short calling it for "Get A Horse" and it went to "Mr. Hublot". The FAC also missed "Her" for Original Screenplay, though, to be fair, I did point out that it was a dead heat. I just leaned the wrong way.
After the 14 of 15 mark last fall on the final "Ten Bets" list of films that would play the festival...maybe I'm starting to figure this thing out a little bit.
AND THE TRANSITION
And so Oscar #86 is over as is the book on TFF #40. Michael's Telluride Film Blog returns to its roots over the next month or so as we turn our attention away from what was to what could be on Labor Day weekend in the San Juans some six months from now.
My thanks to Larry and Mitzi Mallard of The River Club in Telluride who have made it possible for my wife and I to attend each year since 2006.
Thanks also to the various members of the media who have been so kind to me over these last few years as I've continued this experiment.
Thanks to my wife, Kristy, for indulging this crazed obsession.
And thanks to all of you who drop in and read these ramblings from time to time.
See you in Telluride on Aug. 29th!
More, as usual, on Thursday.
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