NEW OSCAR PREDICTIONS: FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND DOCUMENTARIES
Almost every year there is a least one Oscar category that seems like every nominee might have played Telluride. This year the Foreign Language category could go that way.
Honestly, Best Supporting Actress could as well but it's a bit more of a stretch in that category than Foreign Language.
So, here for the first time this Oscar season on MTFB is my set of opening prognostications for Best Foreign Language Film. As is usual here the films that played TFF #45 are Bold.
1) Roma
2) Cold War
3) Capernaum
4) Shoplifters
5) Burning
As you can see, at the moment I am predicting three of the five will have played TFF #45: Roma, Cold War and Shoplifters. There are a few other films that are just off this top five that could supplant some of these: Girl, Never Look Away, Birds of Passage, Border and Sunset.
Meanwhile, in the wild Feature Documentary category, these are the films that I am guessing make the top five...at least for the time being:
1) The Notorious RBG
2) Won't You Be My Neighbor
3) The Identical Strangers
4) Free Solo
5) McQueen
Others: Minding the Gap, Dark Money, The Sentence, Reversing Roe, Filmworker, Quincy, Science Fair, Whitney.
And if you missed it last week, there are new predictions up at Movie City News' Gurus of Gold for Best Picture, Actress and Supporting Actress. And, not to beat the proverbial dead horse, I'm acting as a "Guru" this year.
I am thrilled to be included with friends: Sasha Stone/Awards Daily, Tomris Laffly/RogerEbert.com, and Mark Johnson/AwardsCircuit. I'm also pleased to see Peter Howell of The Toronto Star (Peter and I have exchanged tweets and messages in the past few years about items related to the Toronto Film Fest) and Dave Karger who, among other things, appears from time to time on Turner Classic Movies, are also Gurus this year.
Go check them out by clicking here.
THE FRONT RUNNER'S INTERNATIONAL TRAILER
As we edge closer to its domestic release (Nov. 21), Sony/Columbia released an international version of the trailer for Jason Reitman's The Front Runner.
The film stars Hugh Jackman as U.S. Senator Gary Hart and follows the flame out of his 1988 Presidential bid.
Here's the new international trailer from YouTube:
The Front Runner is set to open in Sweden on Nov. 21.
INTERVIEWS: HUGH JACKMAN (THE FRONT RUNNER), JOSH SINGER (FIRST MAN) AND EVA MELANDER (BORDER)
Oscar nominee Hugh Jackman (for Les Miserables) could earn his second nomination for his work as Gary Hart in Jason Reitman's The Front Runner. Jackman was profiled over the weekend by The Hollywood Reporter in an interview that was conducted by Katie Kilkenny. That interview is linked here.
Oscar winner Josh Singer, who won the Oscar for co-writing Spotlight, and is the script writer for Damien Chazelle's First Man sat down with SlashFilm's Jack Giroux recently. SlashFilm posted the interview on Thursday and you can catch it here.
First Man is in theaters now.
Meanwhile, Eva Melander who stars in the weird and(at least at Telluride) somewhat divisive foreign film Border shared about her experiences with that film this past week wit Erik Anderson of Awards Watch.
That interview is here.
Border is the official submission from Sweden for this year's Foreign Language Oscar. The film opened this past weekend here in the United States.
That's your Monday MTFB. I'll have more on Thursday.
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