THIS WEEK'S OSCAR PRECURSORS: NBR SATELLITES AND GOTHAMS
TFF #44 films fared moderately well with this week's release of film accolades from The National Board of Review but were largely ignored by the Gotham Awards.
The NBR named Steven Spielberg's The Post the best film of the year and also recognized Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep as Best Actor and Actress for that film.
The NBR, as it annually does also named a list of their ten best films of the year and that list included two Telluride films: Lady Bird and Downsizing. Conspicuously absent were The Shape of Water, Battle of the Sexes and Darkest Hour.
Lady Bird also was named for Greta Gerwig's direction and for Laurie Metcalf's performance as Best Supporting Actress.
Foxtrot was named Best Foreign Language Film.
Angelina Jolie's First They Killed My Father was named co-winner of NBR's Freedom of Expression award.
Other TFF #44 films that were highlighted by the NBR included Faces Places as one of the year's best documentaries and Loving Vincent was named to the list of ten best independent films. A Fantastic Woman and Loveless were named to the list of five best foreign language films.
Two TFF #43 films also were lauded. Frantz was listed in the foreign language film category and Norman: The Rise and and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer made the independent film list.
The International Press Association announced the nominees for their Golden Satellite Awards yesterday and TFF #44 films were also well represented among the film nominees. Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk led all films with 11 nominations and TFF #44 favorite The Shape of Water followed closely with 10.
It was good news for The Shape of Water which (as you can see above) was left off of the NBR list. Guillermo Del Toro's film was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress for Sally Hawkins, Best Supporting Actor for Michael Shannon, Direction, Original Screenplay, Original Score, Cinematography, Visual Effects, Film Editing and Art Direction/Production Design.
Lady Bird and Darkest Hour were two other TFF #44 films landing multiple nominations. Lady Bird had six with nominations for Best Picture, Best Actress for Saoirse Ronan, Best Supporting Actress for Laurie Metcalf, Direction, Original Screenplay and Cinematography. Writer/director Greta Gerwig will also receive a special Auteur Award.
Darkest Hour was nominated in four categories: Best Actor for Gary Oldman, Cinematography, Film Editing and Sound Mixing and Editing.
Other TFF #44 films nominated by the IPA included:
Emma Stone for Best Actress in Battle of the Sexes
First They Killed My Father, Loveless and Foxtrot for Best International Film
Loving Vincent for Best Animated Film
Human Flow was nominated for Best Documentary.
A complete listing of all nominees for the Satellites is here from The Wrap.
Meanwhile, The Gotham Awards were handed out in New York earlier this week and TFF #44, which had a meager presence among the nominees to begin with, only scored one win and that was for Saoirse Ronan as Best actress in Lady Bird.
The night was big for Call Me By Your Name which was named Best Feature and Get out which won the most awards.
The New York Critics are set to weigh in with their list of superlative films and performances later today.
LADY BIRD SETS A RECORD
Awards Daily and others reported this week that Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird surpassed Toy Story 4 as the film that had received the most 100% ratings from Rotten Tomatoes making it "the best reviewed film of all time of that rating service.
Toy Story 4 had held the top spot with with 163 100% ratings of critic's reviews until this week when Lady Bird hit 164.
The story from Sasha Stone at Awards Daily is here.
FOCUS ON THE SHAPE OF WATER
As Guillermo Del Toro's The Shape of Water moves closer to release a number of outlets are highlighting various participants in the film. Included in that this week were interviews or profiles with:
Actor Michael Stuhlbarg at GQ.com
Actor Michael Shannon at RogerEbert.com
and composer Alexander Desplat with Awards Daily.com
The Shape of Water opens on Dec. 8th.
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