PARSING THE OSCARS (THROUGH TELLURIDE'S LENSE
TFF #41 produces films that grab 33 Oscar nominations plus an additional two from TFF #40 title "Ida".
The breakdown:
Birdman-Nine- Picture, Direction, Actor, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. Surprisingly NOT nominated for Film Editing (could tell you that it doesn't have a shot at winning Best Picture), or Production Design.
The Imitation Game- Eight-Picture, Direction, Actor, Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Production Design and Original Score. That's exactly what The FAC had for this film.
Foxcatcher-Five- Direction, Actor, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay and Makeup/Hair. Foxcatcher really over-performed based on what The FAC expected but tell me how the film can be one of the five best directed, best written and best acted films and NOT be nominated for Best Picture? More admired than loved, I guess.
Mr. Turner-Four- Original Score, Production Design, Cinematography and Costumes. The score nomination was a surprise.
Wild-Two-Best Actress and Supporting Actress. Laura Dern sneaks in ahead of Rene Russo.
Two Days, One Night-One-Marion Cotillard gets a nod ahead of Jennifer Aniston and Amy Adams.
Single nominations for: "Salt of the Earth" as Best Doc Feature and "Leviathan" and "Wild Tales" for Foreign Language. "Feast" was nominated for Best Animated Short.
Overall, a remarkable year for Telluride films as far as Oscar recognition.
The FAC goes 75 out of 106 this morning or 71%...one of the least successful rates since I started doing this. Lots of 3/5 categories. The FAC's best category: Supporting Actor where I went 5/5 and Makeup...3/3. Worst categories: Doc Feature and Sound Mixing -2/5 in each. In the "close but no cigar" dept. Seven categories had nominations from a film that The FAC had as the #6 possibility.
Surprises and weirdness:
In addition to my amazement mentioned above vis-a-vis "Foxcatcher"...
The "American Sniper" trend turned out to be real...very real. Six nominations...Picture, Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Sound Editing and Mixing. The Final FAC had "Sniper" getting one nomination for screenplay.
"Budapest" performed better than expected and "Boyhood" (which is still your favorite for Best Pic, Director, Original Screenplay and Supporting Actress...but...see below) did exactly what was expected.
"Birdman" underperformed. as The FAC had it getting 10 nominations including Film Editing and Production Design on which is missed. It did get a Sound Mixing nomination, which was a bit of a surprise.
"Selma" Only two nominations...Song and Picture...how very odd.
"The Imitation Game" The FAC predicted "The Imitation Game eight nominations exactly. Picture, Actor, Supporting Actress, Direction, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Production Design and Score.
Category notes:
The Bennett Miller directing nomination is really a surprise.
Let this be remembered: don't bet against Bradley Cooper for an acting nomination.
"Birdman's" lack of a film editing nomination is probably an indication it won't be a Best Picture winner.
Best Song: "Grateful" from "Beyond the Lights" wasn't even in The FAC's final ten.
No "LEGO Movie" for Animated Feature...it was easily #1 in The FAC...that's a huge surprise.
No one can figure out Documentary feature nominees...
"Ida" for cinematography...way to go Kris Tapley!
Finally..."Boyhood", as mentioned above, is still your favorite...but...clearly The Academy loves "Grand Budapest" and "Imitation Game". At this point, if an upset is to occur, it'll be one of those two films.
Early faves in each major category:
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Imitation Game
Best Original Screenplay: Boyhood
Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette/Boyhood
Best Supporting Actor: JK Simmons/Whiplash
Best Actress: Julianne Moore/Still Alice
Best Actor: Michael Keaton/Birdman
Best Direction: Richard Linklater/Boyhood
Best Picture: Boyhood.
More later...and on Monday!
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