THE DISTRIBUTORS 2019; MANY A SMALL FIRM-FINAL PART
-BLEECKER STREET MEDIA
Bleecker Street's Telluride bona fides are barely existent but they have a film that is in post-production that could be in line to make the grade for The SHOW this year. Sally Potter's Molly is currently listed as a 2020 release but...it has reportedly been in post-production since February.
Potter has some Telluride cred having screened her Yes there in 2004 and Ginger and Rosa in 2012 (with Molly star Elle Fanning in that cast). Additionally, frequent Telluride guest/participant/resident Laura Linney is also featured in the cast.
-MUSIC BOX FILMS
Francois Ozon could return to Telluride via Music Box with By the Grace of God. Ozon screened Frantz at Telluride in 2016 (also distributed by Music Box). Adding a bit of fuel to the fire was the film's win of Berlin;s Silver Bear award in February.
Chances for each film-
Molly 35% (would be higher if it was scheduled as a 2019 release)
By the Grace of God 35%
TELLURIDE AND OSCAR PART TWO: BEST DIRECTOR
Picking up where I left off yesterday, I'm continuing an eight part series of articles tracing the connection between films that have played Telluride's Film Fest and the eight "major" Oscar categories.
Yesterday I looked at T-ride and the Best Picture nominees from the past 14 years. Today it's the directors. Here are the directors that played films at TFF since 2005 who were Oscar nominated. Additionally, if that director won it is indicated with ***.
2005: Ang Lee/Brokeback Mountain***, Bennett Miller/Capote
2006: Alejandro Inarritu/Babel
2007: Jason Reitman/Juno, Julian Schnabel/The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Paul Thomas Anderson/There Will Be Blood (I count this and Benjamin Button even though we only saw a portion of each film in tributes to Daniel Day Lewis and David Fincher)
2008: Danny Boyle/Slumdog Millionaire***, David Fincher/The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2009: Jason Reitman/Up in the Air
2010: Tom Hooper/The King's Speech*** Darren Aronofsky/Black Swan.
2011: Michel Hazanavicius/The Artist***, Alexander Payne/The Descendents
2012: Michael Haneke/Amour
2013: Alfonso Cuaron/Gravity***, Steve McQueen/12 Years a Slave, Alexander Payne/Nebraska
2014: Alejandro Inarritu/Birdman***, Morton Tyldum/The Imitation Game, Bennett Miller/Foxcatcher
2015: Tom McCarthy/Spotlight, Lenny Abrahamson/Room
2016: Damian Chazelle/La La Land***, Barry Jenkins/Moonlight, Denis Villeneuve/Arrival, Kenneth Lonergan/Manchester by the Sea
2017: Guillermo Del Toro/The Shape of Water***, Greta Gerwig/Lady Bird
2018: Alfonso Cuaron/Roma***, Pawel Pawlikowski/Cold War, Yorgos Lanthimos/The Favourite
Over these 14 years 31 Best Directing nominations have landed with films that screened as a part of TFF with nine wins.
A couple of notes:
2016 was insane with four of the five nominees having come from Telluride films. The only nominee that year not from a TFF film: Adam McKay for The Big Short
It's good to be one of "The Three Amigos". The three Mexican directors who have been labeled with this sobriquet: Inarritu, Cuaron and Del Toro account for four of the nine wins. Cuaron twice. Inarritu has a second directing Oscar for The Revenant which, of course, did not screen at Telluride.
Thursday I'll take a glance at Best Actress nominees from TFF since 2005.
AND AN ASSIST FROM A FRIEND
I am always appreciative when one of the people I have become friends with that are actual journalists have the kindness to reference the blog. I always see a bump in traffic when something that happens.
With last Friday's first "Ten Bets" for TFF #46 I got a great assist from my friend Sasha Stone at Awards Daily. Sasha linked the Ten Bets and offered some of her views/analysis.
I also think she sort of promised that I could meet Tom Hanks if he's at the fest with A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. At least that's what I'm choosing to believe.
Here's the link to her Awards Daily story that's about Friday's post.
Going to wrap this up for today. More to come on Thursday.
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