SAG AWARDS NOMINATIONS ARE 40% TELLURIDE
The Screen Actors Guild announced their nominees for acting excellence for 2016 yesterday morning. Actors from TFF #43 films were named in 10 of the 25 slots. SAG nominates the traditional Actresses and Actors in Lead and Supporting roles in addition to their Ensemble nomination and stunt cast nominations.
Here's what went down vis-a-vis Telluride among those nominations yesterday.
Manchester by the Sea-4: Ensemble, Casey Affleck/Male Lead, Michelle Williams/Female Supporting, Lucas Hedges/Male Supporting.
Moonlight-3: Ensemble, Naomie Harris/Female Supporting, Mahershala Ali/Male Supporting
La La Land-2: Emma Stone/Female Lead, Ryan Gosling/Male Lead
Arrival: Amy Adams/Female Lead.
Complete nominations:
Ensemble: Captain Fantastic, Fences, Hidden Figures, Manchester, Moonlight
Female Lead: Amy Adams/Arrival, Emily Blunt/Girl on the Train, Natalie Portman/Jackie, Emma Stone/La La Land and Meryl Streep/Florence Foster Jenkins
Male Lead: Casey Affleck/Manchester, Ryan Gosling/La La, Andrew Garfield/Hacksaw Ridge, Viggo Mortensen/Captain Fantastic, Denzel Washington/Fences
Female Supporting: Viola Davis/Fences, Naomie Harris/Moonlight, Nicole Kidman/Lion, Octavia Spencer/Hidden Figures and Michelle Williams/Manchester
Male Supporting: Mahershala Ali/Moonlight, Jeff Bridges/Hell or High Water, Hugh Grant/Florence Foster Jenkins, Lucas Hedges/Manchester, Dev Patel/Lion
Thoughts: It seems to me that Hidden Figures and Fences pick up some heat for a Best Picture nomination and that 20th Century Women and Loving are losing steam. I think her nomination is terrific news for Amy Adams. Meanwhile, Tom Hanks campaign for Sully looks like it's in trouble.
Category by category:
Ensemble: The inclusion of Captain Fantastic was a bit of a stunner. La La Land's exclusion doesn't seem to me to be that problematic. It's not an ensemble piece so I don't think even calling it a snub would be accurate but a number of the big time Oscar pros think that it IS a deal. Their point being that its been over 20 years since a Best Picture winner emerged without a SAG ensemble nomination.
Best Actress looks like the category where the most weirdness occurred. As of last Monday's FAC post only 2 of the 5 "probable" Best Actress Oscar nominees made the SAG list yesterday: Stone and Portman. Adams was listed at #6 and Streep #7 last week and Emily Blunt was nowhere to be found. Not included on the SAG list but on the latest FAC are Ruth Negga/Loving (#4), Anette Bening/20th Century Women (#3) and Emily Blunt/Girl-Train who had dropped out of The FAC top ten.
Best Actor: Kind of a bit of a surprise that Mortensen is a SAG nominee. He edges out Joel Edgerton who I had as the #5 guy in the latest FAC.
Best Supporting Actress: #6 on the FAC Octavia Spencer is in for #5 Greta Gerwig.
Best Supporting Actor: #6 Lucas Hedges is in for the FAC's #5 Liam Neeson.
The SAG is the first of the guilds to weigh in with other major guilds still to come: Producers, Directors and Writers.
I'll be interested to see if Wednesday's announcement moves the needle for some Oscarologists in the next few days.
The next big precursors isn't until the Writers Guild nominations on Jan. 4. The editors Guild announces their nominations the day before.
Here's the complete list of nominees for film and television from SAG-AFTRA.
Additionally, here's analysis from Sasha Stone at Awards Daily.
OSCAR CHANGES THE LAY OF THE LAND
In the space of the three days since MTFB/FAC's last post, a couple of Oscar racers got some big changes as a result of determinations made concerning eligibility.
AMPAS has determined that both Moonlight and Loving, which have been thought to be competing in the Original Screenplay category will. in fact by relegated to the Adapted category. That probably makes Moonlight the favorite for that trophy on Oscar night.
Coverage of the switch of categories is here from:
The Los Angeles Times
Indiewire
Entertainment Weekly
Meanwhile, as seems to happen every year, there were some surprise decisions about Original Scores and there eligibility including the decision that Arrival's score is not eligible for Oscar consideration nor is the score from Manchester by the Sea.
Here's reportage from Variety , Indiewire and Entertainment Weekly.
NORMAN MAKES AN APPEARANCE
I saw three films at TFF #43 that have really flying under the radar since Labor Day: Una (still without U.S. distribution), Wakefield and Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer.
Now, the Richard Gere starrer (Norman) looks like its peeking its head out as we saw the arrival yesterday of a teaser trailer for the film.
You'll find the teaser as well as coverage of the release for the film from Sony Pictures Classics in these dispatches from The Playlist as well as this story from my friend Alex Billington at FirstShowing.net
That'll be a wrap for this second full week of December. Next Monday's post will include an update of the Supporting Acting categories.
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