END OF YEAR CRITICS LISTS
Both Indiewire and Metacritic this week have posted stories with accumulated data from multiple critics. Here's your review of where TFF #44 films ended up on those lists.
Beginning with Indiewire's poll of over 200 critics.
Best Film: #2-Lady Bird, #6-The Shape of Water (Jordan Peele's Get Out edged out Lady Bird for the top spot)
Director: #3-Greta Gerwig/Lady Bird
Best Actress: #1-Saoirse Ronan/Lady Bird, #4-Sally Hawkins/The Shape of Water
Best Actor: #5-Gary Oldman/Darkest Hour
Supporting Actress- #1-Laurie Metcalf/Lady Bird
Screenplay- #2-Lady Bird
Documentary- #1-Faces/Places
Foreign Language Film: #2 Faces/Places
Cinematography- #4 The Shape of Water
Animated Feature- #3 Loving Vincent
Best Films of 2018 That Have Already Been Seen: #2-The Rider, #3-First Reformed, #5-Lean on Pete
The complete story from Indie wire is here.
Metacritic posted two different stories. The first focused on collating end of the year critics groups accolades, the other collated critics year end top ten lists.
From the collation of critics awards highlighted TFF #44 films as follows:
Top Ten Films:
#2 The Shape of Water
#4 Lady Bird
Director: #1-Guillermo Del Toro/The Shape of Water, #3- Greta Gerwig-Lady Bird
Actor- #1 Gary Oldman/Darkest Hour
Actress- #2-Sally Hawkins/The Shape of Water, #3-Saoirse Ronan/Lady Bird
Supporting Actor- #3-Richard Jenkins/The Shape of Water
Supporting Actress- #1- Laurie Metcalf/Lady Bird
Screenplay- #2-Lady Bird, #7- The Shape of Water
Cinematography- #3-The Shape of Water
Film Editing- #3-The Shape of Water
Foreign Language Film- #3 First They Killed My Father
Documentary- #2- Faces/Places
Animated Feature- #2- Loving Vincent
The complete rundown from Metacritic is here.
Metacritic's compilation of critical ratings of top ten lists for 2017 films came down with these TFF #44 films in the Top 20:
#2- Lady Bird
#7-The Shape of Water
#10- Faces/Places
The complete list plus the top tens from critics are here.
DARKEST HOUR SHORT LISTED
Seven films have been short listed by AMPAS for the Makeup/Hair Oscar. That list will be whittled to three by Oscar nomination announcement morning.
TFF #44's Darkest Hour was short listed for turning Gary Oldman into the physical presence of Winston Churchill.
Indiewire has that story here.
MORRIS ON WORMWOOD
Errol Morris spoke recently with Variety about his multi-part CIA docudrama Wormwood which bowed over Labor Day weekend at Telluride. Wormwood is now available for streaming on Netflix.
The Variety interview is accessible here.
That's all for today. I'll have a short post on Christmas morning and be back to business as usual next Thursday.
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