THE FILM AWARDS CLEARINGHOUSE VOL. 3C
I thought I'd use the FAC this week to drop in on four Oscar races outside the Big Eight and see what's going on in them. I'll return next Thursday with The FAC for Best Picture, Director, Actress and Actor.
The FAC uses the published predictions of the following (for these four categories) to develop its list of likely Oscar nominees:
Kristopher Tapley/InContention/HitFix
Sasha Stone/Awards Daily
Nathaniel Rogers/Film Experience
Anne Thompson/Thompson on Hollywood
Peter Knegt/IndieWire
Clayton Davis/Awards Circuit
Scott Feinberg/The Hollywood Reporter
Telluride #41 films are Bold.
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
1) Citizenfour
2) Life Itself
3) Red Army
4) Keep On Keepin' On
5) The Overnighters
6) The Case Against 8
7) Salt of the Earth
8) Tales of the Grim Sleeper
9) Last Days in Vietnam
10) Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Comment: Telluride #41 boasts 2 possible nominees with another couple of possibles. At this point, "Citizenfour" looks like the only lock.
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
1) Ida*
2) Leviathan
3) Two Days, One Night
4) Mommy
5) Wild Tales
6) Winter Sleep
7) Force Majeure
8) Timbuktu
9) White God
10) Gett: The Trail of Viviane Amsalem
Comments: The dream of an all Telluride slate of nominees in an Oscar category could happen this year in the Foreign Language category albeit with an asterisk for "Ida" which actually played Telluride #40. Realistically, I believe it's unlikely that the current top five end up as the five nominees announced in February and looking at the numbers that I crunched, none of these five would be termed locks at this point.
FILM EDITING
1) The Imitation Game
2) Birdman
3) Boyhood
4) Interstellar
5) Gone Girl
6) Unbroken
7) Whiplash
8) Fury
9) American Sniper
10) Foxcatcher
Comment: It says something that "The Imitation Game" sits at the top of the list. Much has been over the past several years about the connection between Best Picture winners and a film editing nomination. It happens a lot. It happened last year with "12 Years a Slave". The notion isn't that a film has to win editing to win Best Picture, but it almost always has to have a nomination. The same could be said about the appearance of Richard Linklater's "Boyhood's" #3 spot on this first chart for Editing.
You wouldn't be surprised at the nomination of such "flashy" editing as "Birdman" or "Interstellar" so the pundits' inclusion of "Imitation" at the top makes you think that it's Best Picture chances are rather good.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1) Birdman
2) Interstellar
3) Mr. Turner
4) Unbroken
5) The Theory of Everything
6) Gone Girl
7) Inherent Vice
8) The Imitation Game
9) The Grand Budapest Hotel
10) Wild
Comments: Every film through the #8 Spot looks like a potential nominee. "Birdman" is a lock.
Ultimately, in these four categories, Telluride #41 films (if The FAC is 100% accurate) would have 10 nominations plus another nomination for a TFF #40 film and an additional 5 possibilities.
In all, looking at the totality of Volume 3 FAC for the dozen categories suggests the following:
"Birdman" nominated for Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Film Editing and Cinematography. (Nominations in 8 of the 9 categories it could be nominated in...and realistically, there isn't a Lead Actress candidate in the film).
"The Imitation Game" nominated for Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Actor, Supporting Actress and Film Editing with a possibility of a nomination for Cinematography.
"Foxcatcher" nominated for Best Picture, Actor and Supporting Actor with possibilities for Original Screenplay, Director and Film Editing.
"Mr. Turner nominated for Best Actor, Original Screenplay and Cinematography with a possibility for Best Director.
"Wild" nominated for Best Actress, Supporting Actress and Adapted Screenplay with possibilities for Best Picture and Cinematography.
Additional films with possibilities include "Rosewater" for Best Adapted Screenplay, The Homesman foe Best Actress and "Wild Tales" for Best Original Screenplay.
Totals for these ten categories plus Documentary Feature and Foreign Films have 29 nominations for TFF #41 films with an additional 12 possible nominations. Of course, still not included are the remaining feature film categories.
BIRDMAN'S BEAT
One of the many distinctive qualities about Alejandro G. Inarritu's masterpiece, "Birdman", is the jazz percussion score. Now, frankly, it is the one element of the film that I'm not crazy about but I also can't deny that it's propulsive and unique. Matt Patches writing for HitFix posted an interview with Antonio Sanchez, the man behind the sounds. That interview is here:
http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/how-alejandro-inarritu-directed-drummer-antonio-sanchezs-birdman-score
ROSEWATER'S TONE
Jon Stewart may well have a shot at an Oscar nomination for his adaptation of Maziar Bahari's book, "Then They Came for Me". "Rosewater" had some champions critically coming out of Telluride but also some detractors (put me in the second camp...I thought it was a noble experiment that failed to connect and included too many warring impulses).
This week Anne Thompson/Thompson on Hollywood posted interviews and Telluride panels that included Stewart and actor Gael Garcia Bernal as the film moves to theaters next week. Here's that collection of material from Anne:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/watch-rosewaters-jon-stewart-and-gael-garcia-bernal-talk-purposeful-inauthenticity-exclusive-20140903
BIFA LOVES " '71" AND OTHERS
Nominations were announced this week for the British Independent Film Awards and a number of Telluride #41 films made the cut. Best Indie Film nominations included " '71", "The Imitation Game" and "Mr, Turner". As a matter of fact " '71" lead the pack with nine total BIFA nominations. "Mr. Turner" was nominated for five BIFA's and "Imitation" was nominated for four.
The Playlist has the complete breakdown of the BIFA nominees here:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/71-starring-jack-oconnell-leads-the-17th-british-independent-film-awards-nominees-20141103
More on Monday...hope your weekend is terrific!
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