MTFB LANDMARK-400,000
Over the weekend Michael's Telluride Film Blog recorded its 400,000th view. Hard for me to believe.
As always, thanks to the dedicated readers and fans of the Telluride Film Festival as well as the Oscar race that take a peek at this space from time to time. Truly unbelievable to me.
THE OSCAR LANDSCAPE
Taking a look at the Gurus of Gold charts reported this week...for Best Picture the new number one is Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird
Also in play are TFF #44 films The Shape of Water at #5 and Darkest Hour at #9.
For Best Actor the only TFF #44 Actor/Film in play is Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour who remains at #1.
For Best Supporting Actor-The Shape of Water's Richard Jenkins sits at #4
and for Best Director-Guillermo Del Toro is at #1 for The Shape of Water while Lady Bird's Greta Gerwig is at #3.
Sasha Stone covers the Gurus with a post at her site linked here.
Meanwhile, Stone's own internal Awards Daily "Awards Squad" has TFF #44 films/performers listed as follows:
Best Picture: The Shape of Water at #1, Lady Bird at #4 and Darkest Hour at #9.
Best Direction: Del Toro/The Shape of Water at #2, Gerwig/Lady Bird #6
Best Actress: Saoirse Ronan/Lady Bird #1, Sally Hawkins/The Shape of Water #3, Emma Stone/Battle of the Sexes #7
Best Actor: Oldman/Darkest Hour #1, Christian Bale/Hostiles #10
Best Supporting Actress:Laurie Metcalf/Lady Bird #2, Octavia Spencer/The Shape of Water #3, Hong Chau/Downsizing #6
Best Supporting Actor: Jenkins/The Shape of Water #6, Michael Shannon/The Shape of Water #8, Tracy Letts/Lady Bird #9
Adapted Screenplay: Wonderstruck #5, First They Killed My Father #10
Original Screenplay: Lady Bird #2, The Shape of Water #4
Film Editing: The Shape of Water #2, Darkest Hour #9, Lady Bird #11
Cinematography: The Shape of Water #3, Wonderstruck #6, Darkest Hour #7
The complete rundown of the Awards Daily Oscar Squad is here.
THE CRITICAL LANDSCAPE
Last Thursday I included as a part of the post a link to Indiewire's collection from 200 critics of the best films of 2017. That list was truncated but now Indiewire has posted the 50 Best Films according to that critical compilation. From that list five TFF #44 films made the grade:
at #46-Battle of the Sexes
#41-Darkest Hour
#36-Hostiles
#6-The Shape of Water
#2 Lady Bird
Jordan Peele's Get Out was the top film according to the 200 critics that Indiewire surveyed. The complete gallery of their top 50 is here.
And that'll be a wrap for the Dec. 25th edition of MTFB.
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