TELLURIDE AND OSCAR PART THREE: BEST ACTRESS
Best Actress Oscar winner Emma Stone (La La Land TFF #43)
Tuesday I looked at T-ride and the Best Director nominees from the past 14 years. Today it's Best Actress. Here are the actresses that played films at TFF since 2005 who were Oscar nominated as leading actresses. Additionally, if that actress won it is indicated with ***.
2005: Reese Witherspoon/Walk the Line***
2006: Kate Winslet/Little Children, Penelope Cruz/Volver
2007: Ellen Page/Juno, Laura Linney/The Savages
2008: No nominees
2009: Carey Mulligan/An Education, Helen Mirren/The Last Station
2010: Natalie Portman/Black Swan***
2011: Glenn Close/Albert Nobbs
2012: Emanuelle Riva/Amour
2013: Sandra Bullock/Gravity
2014: Marion Cotillard/Two Days One Night, Reese Witherspoon/Wild
2015: Brie Larson/Room***, Charlotte Rampling/45 Years, Cate Blanchett/Carol
2016: Emma Stone/La La Land***
2017: Sally Hawkins/The Shape of Water, Saoirse Ronan/Lady Bird
2018: Olivia Colman/The Favourite***, Melissa McCarthy/Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Yalitza Aparicio/Roma
Notes: For Best Actress 22 nominations over these 14 years (to the best of my ability, I believe Jane Alexander was the first Best Actress nominee from a TFF film. That came in 1983 for Testament). Over the 14 years, five women of Telluride have won the trophy.
It does feel like the festival has gained some traction as a Best Actress launchpad over the last five fests (2014-18) with half the nominees and three of the five wins coming during that span.
2015 and 2018 were the strongest Best Actress years with three nominees coming from TFF films in both of those years.
Next Tuesday: time to look at Best Actor.
A DATE FOR A HIDDEN LIFE
Although I have continued to soft pedal its chances to play at Telluride, a recently announced released date for Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life continues to make it a possibility.
Multiple sources including Deadline and World of Reel reported last weekend that the Malick film will be released in the U.S. on Dec. 13th. smack in the middle of awards season. That's consistent with what had been reported earlier that Fox Searchlight would be proceeding with a strong awards push for the film.
The Dec. 13th date would allow Malick to play Telluride, Toronto, New York, London and/or AFI. It's Cannes premiere means that no Venice play is in its future.
A Hidden Life tells the true story of an Austrian conscientious objector during WWII.
BACURAU IS ACQUIRED
Specialty distributor Kino Lorber added Cannes award winner Bacurau from Brazilian film makers Kleber Mendonca Filho and Juliano Dornelles to their stable of films.
I took a brief look at Kino Lorber's Telluride chances in my post on June 28th and concluded that, at that time, KL had another Cannes film, Synonyms, that had a 50/50 chance of making the TFF #45 lineup.
Bacurau's acquisition by Kino Lorber definitely raises its profile for Telluride with the asterisk that Variety reports that the film is currently set for 2020...which isn't a complete disqualifier.
Give Bacurau a 30% chance of making this year's program.
Here's the story from Variety
That's all for this 4th of July. More on Friday including a new Ten Bets!
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