Monday, January 14, 2019

Updated Oscar Predictions for Supporting and Screenplays / Critics Choice Awards and Telluride / First Man Stan / 100 2019 Films from The Film Stage

It's an MTFB Monday...


UPDATED OSCAR PREDICTIONS FOR SUPPORTING AND SCREENPLAYS



Here are my latest Oscar nomination predictions for the Supporting Acting and Screenplay races. TFF Films are Bold.

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Regina King/If Beale Street Could Talk
2) Amy Adams/Vice
3) Rachel Weisz/The Favourite
4) Emma Stone/The Favourite
5) Claire Foy/First Man

In Contention: Margot Robbie/Mary Queen of Scots, Nicole Kidman/Boy Erased, Tomasin Harcourt McKenzie/Leave No Trace, Emily Blunt/A Quiet Place


SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Mahershala Ali/Green Book
2) Richard E. Grant/Can You Ever Forgive Me?
3) Sam Elliott/A Star Is Born
4) Adam Driver/BlacKkKlansman
5) Timothee Chalamet/Beautiful Boy

In Contention: Sam Rockwell/Vice, Michael B. Jordan/Black Panther


ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1) The Favourite
2) Green Book
3) Roma
4) Vice
5) First Reformed

In Contention: Eighth Grade, A Quiet Place


ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1) BlacKkKlansman
2) If Beale Street Could Talk
3) A Star Is Born
4) Can You Ever Forgive Me?
5) First Man

In Contention: Black Panther, Leave No Trace, Crazy Rich Asians, The Death of Stalin


I'll have a big set of Oscar nomination predictions on Thursday and, of course, a complete final set of nomination predictions for all 24 categories a week from today.  Also...stay tuned for my picks on the Movie City News Gurus o' Gold charts.


CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS AND TELLURIDE



Here are the winners of last night's Critics Choice Awards from the Broadcast Film Critics Association (Telluride winners in Bold):

Best Picture: Roma
Direction: Alfonso Cuaron/Roma
Actress: (TIE) Glenn Close/The Wife. Lady Gaga/A Star Is Born
Actor: Christian Bale/Vice
Supporting Actress: Regina King/If Beale Street Could Talk
Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali/Green Book
Foreign Film: Roma
Animated Film: Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse
Young Actor/Actress: Elsie Fisher/Eighth Grade
Ensemble: The Favourite
Original Screenplay: Paul Schrader/First Reformed
Adapted Screenplay: Barry Jenkins/If Beale Street Could Talk
Cinematography: Roma
Production Design: Black Panther
Editing: First Man
Costume Design: Black Panther
Makeup/Hair: Vice
Visual Effects: Black Panther
Action Movie: Mission Impossible-Fallout
Comedy Film: Crazy Rich Asians
Actress in a Comedy: Olivia Colman/The Favourite
Actor in a Comedy: Christian Bale/Vice
SciFi/Horror Movie: A Quiet Place
Song: Shallow/A Star Is Born
Score: First Man

Telluride films won nine Critics Choice awards (including one for TFF #44 film First Reformed).

Cuaron's Roma was the night's big winner with four awards including Best Picture and Direction.

Other films with multiple wins were:

Black Panther-3
Vice-3
First Man-2
The Favourite-2
If Beale Street Could Talk-2
A Star Is Born-2


Here is coverage from last night's awards from:

Variety

Awards Daily

Indiewire

FIRST MAN STAN



I'm including a couple of links to First Man oriented posts/stories/interviews as I am unapologetically in its corner as we head into the last few days of Oscar voting.  I am, as the kids say in the parlance of our times, stanning for the film and performers...

Indiewire's Kate Erbland talks to Oscar winning (Spotlight) screen writer Josh Singer.

The L.A. Times' Glenn Whipp talks to star Ryan Gosling and director Damien Chazelle.

Kate Erbland's Indiewire story from right after First Man's Toronto screening.


And just because I really like the film and performances and think it should also make the final Oscar lineup for best picture...

Here's a story about Melissa McCarthy's casting in Marielle Heller's Can You Ever Forgive Me? from The Hollywood Reporters' Pamela McClintock.



ONE HUNDRED 2019 FILMS FROM THE FILM STAGE



The Film Stage has posted its long 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2019 list.  From that collection of titles here are a dozen titles that feel like (at least this far out) decent best to make the TFF #46 list:

#98-The Woman in the Window
#96-The Kindness of Strangers
#93-Lucy in the Sky
#86-Fireball
#80-Against All Enemies
#62-Ema
#51-Radioactive
#49-A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
#48-Mainstream
#16-The Truth
#15-Dry Run
#7- Little Women

Of course there are others on the list that I think might be in play come Labor Day (The Report, Motherless Brooklyn) and others that I'd love to see make TFF #46 (Radegund, The Irishman).

The complete 100 film list plus honorable mentions is linked here.


That's your MTFB fix for this Monday.  I'll have more on Thursday including a substantial Oscar predictions update...lots of categories as we countdown to Oscar nomination morning on Jan. 22nd.



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