GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS
Here are the winners from last night's Golden Globe awards with films from TFF #44 in Bold.
Best Picture-Drama- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Picture-Musical or Comedy-Lady Bird
Best Direction-Guillermo Del Toro/The Shape of Water
Best Actress-Drama-Frances McDormand/Three Billboards
Best Actress-Musical or Comedy-Saoirse Ronan/Lady Bird
Best Actor-Drama-Gary Oldman/Darkest Hour
Best Actor-Musical or Comedy-James Franco/The Disaster Artist
Best Supporting Actress-Allison Janney/I, Tonya
Best Supporting Actor-Sam Rockwell/Three Billboards
Best Screenplay-Three Billboards
Best Animated Feature-Coco
Best Foreign Language Film: In the Fade
Best Original Score-The Shape of Water
Best Song-This Is Me/The Greatest Showman
Takeaways: The HFPA really liked Three Billboards as it led all films with four wins. The Shape of Water and Lady Bird were the other two films that had multiple wins with two each. TFF#44 films scored 5 wins on the night.
What's it mean for Oscar? Three Billboards is maybe a more serious player than I thought. Otherwise, despite the fact that Oscar voting is going on right now, I'm not sure the results from last night will make a lot of difference.
PRODUCERS AND WRITERS GUILDS NOMINATE
Both the PGA (Producers Guild of America) and the WGA (Writers Guild of America) announced the nominees for their end of the year awards this week adding fuel to some Oscar fires and potentially signaling weakness for others.
The PGA announced 11 films as finalists for their award. That's the first time that has happened as a tie in voting created an 11th position for the nominations. PGA finalists are:
The Big Sick
Call Me By Your Name
Dunkirk
Get Out
I, Tonya
Lady Bird
Molly's Game
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Wonder Woman
The announcement was good news for The Big Sick, I Tonya, Molly's Game and Wonder Woman. Not so much for Darkest Hour or Phantom Thread.
This link is to the official announcement from the PGA.
Here is analysis from Deadline and Indiewire.
Also this week the WGA announced its finalists for Best Original and Adapted Screenplay.
The nominees for Best Original Screenplay are:
The Big Sick
Get Out
I, Tonya
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Adapted Screenplay nominees are:
Call Me By Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Logan
Molly's Game
Mudbound
It's worth remembering that some surefire Oscar contenders like Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri were not eligible for consideration under WGA rules.
WGA analysis is here from Indiewire, Entertainment Weekly and Awards Circuit.
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS WEIGHS IN
The last big critics group to announce their choices for the Best of 2017 did so on Saturday. The National Society of Film Critics (NFSC) named Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird the Best Film of the year in an incredible close vote as it topped Jordan Peele's Get Out by a single ballot.
Lady Bird claimed four wins in all as Gerwig was singled out as Best Director and the writer of the Best Screenplay as well and Laurie Metcalf was named Best Supporting Actress.
Other TFF #44 films also were honored:
Sally Hawkins was named Best Actress for The Shape of Water (and Maudie-TFF #43)
Graduation was named Best Foreign Film and Faces Places was named Best Non-Fiction Film.
TFF #44 films only missed on three awards from the group.
Additionally, Saoirse Ronan was runner-up for Best Actress for Lady Bird. Michael Sthulbarg was a runner-up for Best Supporting Actor in part for The Shape of Water. Faces Places was a runner-up for Best Foreign Language Film.
Variety has this report of the NSFC honors including runners-up in each category.
That's your MTFB for this Monday. Check back for more on Thursday.
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