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OSCAR HISTORY AND TFF PART EIGHT

Here's the concluding installment of my review of the history of Oscar nominations for films that played as a part of the Telluride Film Festival from its 1974 inception to last year's Oscar ceremony.  Today's installment covers the years from 2015 to the present.  Numbers in parentheses following each year are total number of nominations from TFF films for that year followed by the number of Oscars won by TFF films.


2015 (23/4)

Spotlight- Picture-WON, Original Screenplay-WON, Director- Tom McCarthy, Supporting Actress- Rachel McAdams, Supporting Actor-Mark Ruffalo, Film Editing

Son of Saul-Foreign Language-WON

Room- Actress-Brie Larson-WON, Picture, Director-Lenny Abrahamson, Adapted Screenplay

Carol- Actress-Cate Blanchett, Supporting Actress-Rooney Mara, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Score, Costume

Steve Jobs- Actor-Michael Fassbender, Supporting Actress-Kate Winslet

45 Years- Actress-Charlotte Rampling

Anomalisa- Animated

Winter on Fire- Documentary

The Look of Silence- Documentary


2016 (35/12)

Moonlight-Picture-WON, Supporting Actor-Mahershala Ali-WON, Adapted Screenplay-WON, Supporting Actress-Naomie Harris, Director-Barry Jenkins, Score, Cinematography, Film Editing

La La Land- Actress-Emma Stone-WON, Director-Damien Chazelle-WON, Score-WON, Original Song-WON, Production Design-WON, Cinematography-WON, Picture, Actor-Ryan Gosling, Original Song, Original Screenplay, Film Editing, Costume, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing

Manchester by the Sea- Actor-Casey Affleck-WON, Original Screenplay-WON, Picture, Director-Kenneth Lonergan, Supporting Actor-Lucas Hedges, Supporting Actress-Michelle Williams

Arrival- Sound Editing-WON, Picture, Director-Denis Villenueve, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Production Design, Sound Mixing

Toni Erdmann-Foreign Language

Fire at Sea-Documentary

Sully-Sound Editing


2017 (29/6)

The Shape of Water- Picture-WON, Director-Guillermo Del Toro-WON, Score-WON, Production Design-WON, Actress-Sally Hawkins, Supporting Actor-Richard Jenkins, Supporting Actress-Octavia Spencer, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Costume, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing

Darkest Hour- Actor-Gary Oldman-WON, Makeup-WON, Picture, Cinematography, Production Design, Costume

Lady Bird- Picture, Director-Greta Gerwig, Actress-Saoirse Ronan, Supporting Actress-Laurie Metcalf, Original Screenplay

A Fantastic Woman-Foreign Language

The Insult-Foreign Language

Loveless-Foreign Language

Loving Vincent-Animated

Faces Places-Documentary


2018 (33/6)

Roma- Director-Alfonso Cuaron-WON, Foreign Language-WON, Cinematography-WON, Picture, Actress-Yalitza Aparicio, Supporting Actress-Marina de Tavira, Original Screenplay, Production Design, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing

The Favourite- Actress-Olivia Colman-WON, Picture, Director-Yorgos Lanthimos, Supporting Actress-Emma Stone, Supporting Actress-Rachel Weisz, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Production Design, Costume

First Man-Visual Effects-WON, Production Design, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing

Free Solo- Documentary-WON

Can You Ever Forgive Me?- Actress-Melissa McCarthy, Supporting Actor-Richard E. Grant, Adapted Screenplay

Cold War- Director- Pawel Pawlikowski, Foreign Language, Cinematography

Shoplifters- Foreign Language

Border- Makeup



What will  we add for 2019?



MORE FROM RENEE ZELLWEGER

Rupert Goold's Judy opened this past weekend to middling reviews except in the case of Renee Zellweger's performance in the role of the icon Judy Garland.  Since its bow in Telluride, Zellweger has become the established front runner (along with Marriage Story's Scarlett Johannson) to earn a Best Actress Oscar nomination and win the gold man in early February.

Zellweger continued to be highlighted through the end of the past week with profiles and interviews in a number of outlets.  I linked several of those last Wednesday/Thursday and am adding a couple of more of them today:

From Variety

Indiewire



PORTRAIT IS NOT FRANCE'S CHOICE

France announced its choice of film for consideration for the Best International Feature (formerly the Foreign Language Film category) for this year's Oscars and it was not Celine Sciamma's TFF featured Portrait of a Lady on Fire.  In what was thought to be a very tough decision, the French instead chose Ladj Ly's Les Miserable.  Alice Wincour's Proxima was also said to have received serious consideration.

Portrait was the recipient of the Best Screenplay award at Cannes whereas Les Miserables was a Jury Prize winner for that fest.

Complete details of the decision are covered in this story by Zack Sharf linked from Indiewire.


MOTHERLESS OPENS ROME

We also found out over the weekend that Edward Norton's Motherless Brooklyn has been chosen to open the Rome Film Festival.  That fest takes off on Oct. 17th.

The complete Rome Film Fest lineup is set to be revealed on Friday.

I have included this link to the announcement for Motherless Brooklyn from The Hollywood Reporter.



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A DAY EARLY

You may have noticed that I published a post yesterday...That was a mistake.  I accidentally punched the button for what would have been today's regularly scheduled post.  So...today's actual post is here to tell you to take a look at what I posted yesterday.  It's fairly informative.

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Oscar Predictions: Direction and Supporting Actors / Oscar and TFF History Part Seven / Interviews from TFF #46 Films / Uncut Gems Cuts a Trailer / 63 Up Trailer

OSCAR PREDICTIONS: DIRECTION AND SUPPORTING ACTORS

Here's the next installment of my initial Oscar nomination predictions for this year.  Today's focus is on Best Direction and the Supporting Acting categories.  Films from TFF #46 are indicated in Bold.

BEST DIRECTION

1) Quentin Tarantino/Once Upon a Time in...Hollywood
2) Bong Joon Ho/Parasite
3) Noah Baumbach/Marriage Story
4) Sam Mendes/1917
5) Martin Scorsese/The Irishman

Other Possibles: Lulu Wang/The Farewell, James Mangold/Ford v. Ferrari, Greta Gerwig/Little Women, Fernando Meirelles/The Two Popes, Marielle Heller/A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Taika Waititi/Jojo Rabbit

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Laura Dern/Marriage Story
2) Jennifer Lopez/Hustlers
3) Margot Robbie/Once Upon a Time in...Hollywood
4) Annette Bening/The Report
5) Shuzen Zhao/The Farewell

Other Possibles: Nicole Kidman/Bombshell, Taylor Russell/Waves, Scarlett Johansson/Jojo Rabbit

SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Brad Pitt/Once Upon a Time in...Hollywood
2) Tom Hanks/A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
3) Anthony Hopkins/The Two Popes
4) Al Pacino/The Irishman
5) Willem Dafoe/The Lighthouse

Other Possibles: Alan Alda/Marriage Story, Christian Bale/Ford v. Ferrari, John Lithgow/Bombshell, Sterling K. Brown/Waves

OSCAR AND TFF HISTORY PART SEVEN: 2010-2014

My review of the history between The Academy Awards and the Telluride Film Festival continues today with the nominees and winners for the 21 feature categories of the Oscars from 2010-2014.  The total number of nominations and winners for each year are listed for that year in parentheses.

2010 (31/5)

The King's Speech- Picture-WON, Actor-Colin Firth-WON, Director-Tom Hooper-WON, Original Screenplay-WON, Supporting Actor-Geoffrey Rush, Supporting Actress-Helena Bonham Carter, Cinematography, Film Editing, Score, Costume, Art Direction, Sound Mixing

127 Hours- Picture, Actor-James Franco, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Score, Song

Black Swan- Actress-Natalie Portman-WON, Picture, Director-Darren Aronofsky, Cinematography, Film Editing

Inside Job-Documentary-WON

Biutiful- Actor-Javier Bardem

Another Year-Original Screenplay

Incendies- Foreign Language

Chico and Rita-Animated

The Illusionist- Animated

The Way Back-Makeup


2011 (23/7)

The Artist- Picture-WON, Actor-Jean Dujardin-WON, Director-Michel Hazanazvicius-WON, Score-WON, Costume-WON, Supporting Actress-Berenice Bejo, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Art Direction

The Descendants- Adapted Screenplay-WON, Picture, Actor-George Clooney, Director-Alexander Payne, Film Editing

A Separation- Foreign Language-WON, Original Screenplay

Albert Nobbs- Actress-Glenn Close, Supporting Actress-Janet McTeer, Makeup

Footnote- Foreign Language

In Darkness- Foreign Language

Pina- Documentary


2012 (15/4)

Argo- Picture-WON, Adapted Screenplay-WON, Film Editing-WON, Supporting Actor-Alan Arkin, Score, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing

Amour- Foreign Language-WON, Picture, Director, Actress-Emanuelle Riva, Original Screenplay

A Royal Affair- Foreign Language

No- Foreign Language

The Gatekeepers- Documentary


2013 (32/10)

12 Years a Slave- Picture-WON, Supporting Actress-Lupita N'yongo-WON, Adapted Screenplay-WON, Actor-Chiwetel Ejiofor, Supporting Actor-Michael Fassbender, Director-Steve McQueen, Film Editing, Production Design, Costume

Gravity- Director-Alfonso Cuaron-WON, Score-WON, Cinematography-WON, Film Editing-WON, Sound Mixing-WON, Sound Editing-WON, Visual Effects-WON, Picture, Actress-Sandra Bullock, Production Design

Nebraska-Picture, Actor-Bruce Dern, Supporting Actress-June Squibb, Director-Alexander Payne, Original, Screenplay, Cinematography

Inside Llewyn Davis- Cinematography, Sound Mixing

Prisoners- Cinematography

Invisible Woman- Costume

The Missing Picture-Documentary

The Wind Rises- Animated

All Is Lost- Sound Editing


2014 (29/6)


Birdman- Picture-WON, Director- Alejandro Inarritu-WON, Original Screenplay-WON, Cinematography-WON, Actor- Michael Keaton, Supporting Actress-Emma Stone, Supporting Actor-Edward Norton, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing

The Imitation Game- Adapted Screenplay-WON, Picture, Actor-Benedict Cumberbatch, Supporting Actress-Keira Knightley, Film Editing, Score, Production Design

Ida- Foreign Language-WON

Foxcatcher- Actor-Steve Carell, Supporting Actor-Mark Ruffalo, Director-Bennett Miller, Original Screenplay, Makeup

Wild- Actress-Reese Witherspoon, Supporting Actress-Laura Dern

Two Days One Night- Actress-Marion Cotillard

Leviathan-Foreign Language

Wild Tales-Foreign Language

Salt of the Earth-Documentary


INTERVIEWS FROM TFF #46 FILMS

Included here are interviews from the last couple of weeks from folks that were involved in films that played as a part of the 46th Telluride Film Festival:


RENEE ZELLWEGER/JUDY

From Time.com

From The Hollywood Reporter

From Entertainment Weekly


EDWARD NORTON/MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN

From The Wrap


MATT DAMON AND CHRISTIAN BALE/FORD V. FERRARI

From Entertainment Weekly


ANTONIO BANDERAS/PAIN AND GLORY

From The Wrap


VALERIE PACHNER AND AUGUST DIEHL/A HIDDEN LIFE

From The Wrap



UNCUT GEMS CUTS A TRAILER

We git a trailer for the Safdie Brothers' Uncut Gems yesterday featuring Adam Sandler in a performance that is generating some Oscar buzz.  Here's the trailer from YouTube:

Uncut Gems opens on Dec. 25th.



TRAILER FOR 63 UP

Michael Apted's on-going project of  following a group of people that he first had contact with back in 1964 continued at TFF #46.  Apted has re-visited that group every seven years since then.

This year's version is titled 63 Up and it has a trailer that was released earlier this month.

Here that is from YouTube:

That's your MTFB for this Thursday.  I'll be back after the weekend with more.

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OSCAR AND TFF HISTORY PART SIX 2005-2009

This is the continuation of my project to chart every Oscar nominee in the 21 feature categories that played at the Telluride Film Festival since the first TFF in 1974.

So today we move to 2005-2009.  The number of nominations and wins are indicated in parentheses for each year.

2005 (19/5)


Brokeback Mountain- Director-Ang Lee-WON, Adapted Screenplay-WON, Score-WON, Picture, Actor-Heath Ledger, Supporting Actor-Jake Gyllenhaal, Supporting Actress-Michelle Williams, Cinematography

Capote- Actor-Philip Seymour Hoffman-WON, Picture, Director-Bennett Miller, Supporting Actress-Catherine Keener, Adapted Screenplay

Walk the Line- Actress-Reese Witherspoon-WON, Actor-Joaquin Phoenix, Film Editing, Costume, Sound

Paradise Now- Foreign Language


2006 (14/2)


Babel- Score-WON, Picture, Director-Alejandro Inarritu, Supporting Actress- Rinko Kikuchi, Supporting Actress-Adriana Barraza, Original Screenplay, Film Editing

The Last King of Scotland-Actor-Forest Whitaker-WON

The Lives of Others-Foreign Language-WON

Little Children- Actress-Kate Winslet, Supporting Actor-Jackie Earle Haley, Adapted Screenplay

Volver- Actress-Penelope Cruz

Venus- Actor-Peter O'Toole


2007 (14/2 or ***22/4)


Juno- Original Screenplay-WON, Picture, Director-Jason Reitman, Actress-Ellen Page

The Counterfeiters- Foreign Language-WON

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly- Director-Julian Schnabel, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Cinematography

Into the Wild- Supporting Actor-Hal Holbrook, Film Editing

I'm Not There- Supporting Actress-Cate Blanchett

Persepolis- Animated

Encounters at the End of the World- Documentary

***and if you count it***
There Will Be Blood- Actor-Daniel Day Lewis-WON, Cinematography-WON, Picture, Director-Paul Thomas Anderson, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Art Direction, Sound Editing


2008 (13/8 or ***26/11)


Slumdog Millionaire- Picture-WON,  Director-Danny Boyle-WON, Adapted Screenplay-WON, Film Editing-WON, Cinematography-WON, Score-WON, Song-WON, Sound Mixing-WON, Sound Editing, Song

Waltz with Bashir-Foreign Language

Revanche- Foreign Language

Happy-Go-Lucky-Original Screenplay

***and if you count it***
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button- Art Direction-WON, Visual Effects-WON, Makeup-WON, Picture, Actor-Brad Pitt, Supporting Actress-Taraji P. Henson, Director-David Fincher, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Cinematography, Costume, Score, Sound Mixing


2009 (16)


Up in the Air- Picture, Actor-George Clooney, Supporting Actress-Vera Farmiga, Supporting Actress-Anna Kendrick, Director-Jason Reitman, Adapted Screenplay

An Education- Picture, Actress-Carey Mulligan, Adapted Screenplay

The Last Station- Actress- Helen Mirren, Supporting Actor-Christopher Plummer

The White Ribbon- Foreign Language, Cinematography

A Prophet-Foreign Language

Bright Star-Costume

Coco Before Chanel-Costume

NEW TRAILER FOR THE AERONAUTS

Tom Harper's The Aeronauts has a new trailer for its U.K. audiences.  The film is set to open there on Nov. 6th, a full month before its opening in the United States.

The Aeronauts stars Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne and Oscar nominee Felicity Jones.  Here's the trailer from YouTube:

THE BEST OF THE FESTS...

The Film Stage, much like a number of other outlets, has put together a list of films they regard as the best that emerged over the runs of the Telluride, Venice and Toronto festivals.

In their estimation that list included the following films from TFF #46:

Marriage Story

Uncut Gems 

Waves.

The article also includes letter grades for a number of other films that played across the three fests including:

Portrait of a Lady on Fire- A

A Hidden Life A-

Pain and Glory A-

Parasite A-

Varda by Agnes A-

The Climb B+

Diego Maradona B+

Family Romance LLC B+

Ford v. Ferrari B+

The Report B

Motherless Brooklyn C-

The complete listing from The Film Stage is linked here.

In addition to that article, Indiewire posted its own unique look at other aspects of the films that have been part of the film fest triumvirate with this article that focuses on their take of the best craft work in those films.  Among the films and tech work cited are these from TFF #46:

Parasite: Production Design

Portrait of a Lady on Fire: Cinematography

Marriage Story: Film Editing

Uncut Gems: Sound Mixing

Ford v. Ferrari: General

Take a look at the complete article here.

That's today's MTFB.  I'll have more on Thursday including a look at my first Oscar predictions for directing and the supporting acting categories.

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MTFB'S FIRST OSCAR STAB FOR 2019

It's that time of year.  The festival has concluded, the Pros, People and their Composite ratings have been gathered calculated and reported.  The next TFF is 11 1/2 months away and Oscar season is upon us.

As many of you know, I've been asked to Guru the Oscars again this year for Movie City News' Gurus of Gold so expect to see links and references to that website as we head to Oscar night, Feb. 9, 2020.

So we turn the focus of this space from puzzling out and speculating about the Telluride lineup to puzzling out and speculating how that lineup figures into the race for Oscar glory.  

I'm opening this year's Oscar guessing game with my first prediction for nominations for Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Actor.  Films from TFF #46 are Bold.

BEST PICTURE

1) The Irishman

2) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

3) Marriage Story

4) Ford v. Ferrari

5) Parasite

6) 1917

7) JoJo Rabbit

8) The Farewell

9) The Two Popes

10) A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Others: Little Women, Just Mercy, Joker, Waves, Judy, Ad Astra

BEST ACTRESS

1) Renee Zellweger/Judy

2) Scarlett Johansson/Marriage Story

3) Cynthia Ervio/Harriet

4) Awkwafina/The Farewell

5) Alfre Woodard/Clemency

Others: Saoirse Ronan/Little Women, Lupita N'yongo/Us, Helen Mirren/The Good Liar

BEST ACTOR

1) Adam Driver/Marriage Story

2) Leonardo DiCaprio/Once Upon a Time...

3) Jonathan Pryce/The Two Popes

4) Joaquin Phoenix/Joker

5) Antonio Banderas/Pain and Glory

Others; Michael B. Jordan/Just Mercy, Robert DeNiro/The Irishman, Ian McKellan/The Good Liar

Next week I'll take a crack at the Supporting Acting categories and Best Director.

TFF OSCAR HISTORY PART FIVE-2000-2004

Here's the continuation of my project to chart every Oscar nominee in the 21 feature categories that played at the Telluride Film Festival since the first TFF in 1974.

So today we move to 2000-2004.  The number of nominations and wins are indicated in parentheses for each year.

2000 (17/4)

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon- Foreign Language-WON, Original Score-WON, Cinematography-WON, Art/Set Direction-WON, Picture, Director-Ang Lee, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Costumes, Song

Quills- Actor-Geoffrey Rush, Costumes, Art/Set Direction

Sweet and Lowdown- Actor-Sean Penn, Supporting Actress-Samantha Morton

Shadow of the Vampire- Supporting Actor-Willem Dafoe, Makeup


2001 (7/1)

Amelie- Foreign Language, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Art/Set Direction, Sound

Mulholland Drive- Director- David Lynch

No Man's Land- Foreign Language- WON


2002 (13/4)

Frida- Score-WON, Makeup-WON, Actress- Salma Hayek, Song

City of God- Director-Fernando Meirelles, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Cinematography

Talk to Her- Original Screenplay-WON, Director- Pedro Almodovar

Spirited Away- Animated -WON

Bowling for Columbine- Documentary- WON

The Man Without a Past- Foreign Language


2003 (12/3)

The Barbarian Invasions- Foreign Language-WON, Original Screenplay

The Fog of War-Documentary-WON

Lost in Translation- Original Screenplay-WON, Picture, Director-Sophia Coppola, Actor-Bill Murray
Girl with a Pearl Earring- Costume, Cinematography, Art/Set Direction

The Triplets of Belleville- Animated, Song


2004 (3)

Being Julia- Actress-Annette Bening

The House of Flying Daggers- Cinematography

Kinsey- Supporting Actress-Laura Linney


ALL IN ONE PLACE

As a coda to this year's ratings averages from The People, The Professionals and The Composite...I have gathered them all here in one re-post as well as the current All Time Top Ten for each categorization as well:

THE PROFESSIONALS:

1) Parasite (4.75)
2) The Two Popes (4.42)
3) Marriage Story (4.40)
4) Waves (4.29)
5) A Hidden Life (4.20)
6) Portrait of a Lady on Fire (4.17)
7) Ford v. Ferrari (4.11)
8) The Report (3.87)
9) Pain and Glory (3.83)
10) Uncut Gems (3.78)
11) Motherless Brooklyn (3.58)
12) The Climb (3.50)
13) Judy (3.13)
14) The Aeronauts (3.08)
15) The Assistant (2.75)

TOP TEN SINCE 2012:

1) Moonlight (4.87) (16)
2) Parasite (4.75) (19)
3) Roma (4.73) (18)
4) Birdman (4.72) (14)
5) 12 Years a Slave (4.70-tie) (13)
6) Central Park Five (4.70-tie) (12)
7) Foxcatcher (4.63) (14)
8) La La Land (4.58) (16)
9) Argo (4.50-tie) (12)
9) The Shape of Water (4.50-tie) (17)
10) Son of Saul (4.44) (15)

THE PEOPLE:

1) The Two Popes (4.51)
2) Parasite (4.36)
3) Ford v. Ferrari (4.35)
4) Marriage Story (4.14)
5) Pain and Glory (3.81-Tie)
5) A Hidden Life (3.81-Tie)
7) Judy (3.80)
8) The Aeronauts (3.67)
9) The Report (3.66)
10) Motherless Brooklyn (3.64)
11) Lyrebird (3.62)
12) Waves (3.61)
13) Inside Bill's Brain (3.39)
14) Uncut Gems (3.22)
15) The Climb (3.07)
16) First Cow (3.02)

TOP TEN SINCE 2012

1) Stories We Tell (4.80) (12)
2) Argo (4.75) (12)-Won Best Picture
3) The Imitation Game (4.73) (14) Nominated Best Picture
4) The Attack (4.70) (12)
5) Tim's Vermeer (4.67) (13)
6) 12 Years a Slave (4.55) (13) Won Best Picture
7) The Two Popes (4.51) (19)
8) Roma (4.47) (15) TIE Nominated Best Picture
8) Room (4.47) (18) TIE Nominated Best Picture
10) Birdman (4.46) (14) Won Best Picture


THE COMPOSITE

1) Parasite (9.11) [2/1]
2) The Two Popes (8.93) [1/2]
3) Marriage Story (8.54) [4/3]
4) Ford v. Ferrari (8.46) [3/7]
5) A Hidden Life (8.01) [5/5]
6) Waves (7.90) [12/4]
7) Pain and Glory (7.63) [5/9]
8) The Report (7.53) [9/8]
9) Motherless Brooklyn (7.22) [10/11]
10) Uncut Gems (7.00) [14/10]
11) Judy (6.93) [7/13]
12) The Aeronauts (6.75) [8/14]
13) The Climb (6.57) [15/12]


TOP TEN SINCE 2012

1) 12 Years a Slave (9.25) 2013 Tie (Won Best Picture)
1) Argo (9.25) 2012 Tie (Won Best Picture)
3) Roma (9.20) 2018 (Won Best Foreign Language Film)
4) Moonlight (9.19) 2016 (Won Best Picture)
5) Birdman (9.18) 2014 (Won Best Picture)
6) Parasite (9.11) 2019
7) Stories We Tell (9.10) 2012
8) Tim's Vermeer (8.97) 2013
9) The Two Popes (8.93) 2019
10) La La Land (8.91) 2016 (Won Best Director)


MOST VIEWED OF TFF #46

Another metric of buzz and popularity that I just started looking at last year is the number of respondents to my Peoples poll that went to each film.  By that measure, Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story won the day.  Here are the top ten for this year expressed for each film as a percentage of the total number of respondents.

1) Marriage Story 71.43%
2) Motherless Brooklyn 58.57%
3) Uncut Gems 57.14%
4) Ford v. Ferrari 55.71%
5) Parasite 52.86%
6) Judy 50.00%
6) Waves 50.00%
8) The Report 48.57%
9) Lyrebird 47.14%
10) The Two Popes 44.29 %



METACRITIC AFTER TELLURIDE, VENICE AND TORONTO

Metacritic, the aggregate critic website, posted yesterday the composite critical ratings for several of the films that played at one of the triumvirate of film festivals just concluded.  I took the opportunity to cull those aggregate ratings for films that played at Telluride and here's what they reported:

1) Marriage Story 95 (actually, the top aggregate score for any film on the list from any of the three fests)
2) Uncut Gems 88
3) The Two Popes 83
4) Waves 81
5) The Kingmaker 77
6) First Cow 76
7) The Aeronauts 73
8) Ford v. Ferrari 71
9) Judy and The Assistant 65
11) Motherless Brooklyn 62


My guess as to the absence of films such as Parasite, The Report, Pain and Glory and others is that they were likely excluded having screened earlier at either Cannes or Sundance.

The complete article from Metacritic is linked here.


That's the MTFB for this Thursday.  More here on Monday.  Have a great weekend!

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THE COMPOSITE TELLURIDE

Regular readers of this space know that The Composite Telluride is the melding of the ratings of The People and The Professionals.  My thought when I began putting composites together was that it might give an even more complete overview of the reactions, in a general sense, of the attendees to each year's festival

Each table shows the films, in order of best composite,  that were shared by both The People and The Pros with their composite rating in parentheses and their two respective ranked positions in brackets.

Though I didn't originally do a composite Telluride in 2012, I have gone back and created that over the weekend.

2012

1) Argo (9.25) [2/2]
2) Stories We Tell (9.10) [3/1]
3) The Attack (8.70) [5/3]
4) Central Park Five (8.450 [1/13]
5) The Sapphires (8.36) [4/8]
6) Frances Ha (8.27) [5/9]
7) Amour (7.67) [10/6]
8) Rust and Bone (7.65) [7/16]
9) Baraka (7.50) [10/10]
10) The Iceman 7.41 [8/17]
11) No (6.61) [12/21]
12) The Gatekeepers (6.58) [14/18]
13) Hyde Park on Hudson (6.33) [14/20]
14) At Any Price (5.83) [9/24]
15) Everyday (4.88) [15/25]

2013

1) 12 Years a Slave (9.25) [1/2]
2) Tim's Vermeer (8.97) [4/1]
3) Gravity (8.75) [3/3]
4) Nebraska (8.38) [5/6]
5) All is Lost (8.26) [6/7]
6) Inside Llewyn Davis (8.25) [7/5]
7) Blue is the Warmest Color (8.15) [2/11]
8) The Past (7.71) [9/10]
9) The Lunchbox (7.55) [13/4]
10) The Wind Rises (7.1) [18/8]
11) Labor Day (7.0) [10/14]
11) (tie) Prisoners (7.0) [12/13]
13) Tracks (6.84) [16/12]
14) Palo Alto (6.4) [16/17]
15) The Invisible Woman (6.19) [20/18]
16) The Unknown Known (5.73) [15/20]
17) Under the Skin (5.1) [18/21]

2014

1) Birdman (9.18) [2/1]
2) Foxcatcher (8.83) [4/2]
3) The Imitation Game (8.79)  [1/7]
4) Wild Tales (8.43) [3/4]
5) '71 (8.15) [6/3]
6) Mommy (7.42) [8/8]
7) Red Army (7.30) [7/11]
8) Two Days, One Night (7.21) [13/9]
9) Mr. Turner (7.10) [14/6]
10) Wild (6.71) [8/13]
11) Rosewater (6.52) [12/14]
12) The Homesman (6.38) [16/11]
13) Madame Bovary (6.18) [15/12]

2015

1) Spotlight (8.86) [2/3]
2) Son of Saul (8.74) [5/1]
3) Beasts of No Nation (8.62) [3/5]
4) Steve Jobs (8.17) [10/4]
5) Carol (8.13) [8/6]
6) Black Mass (7.98) [7/9]
7) Room (7.97) [1/11]
8) 45 Years (7.84) [11/7]
9) Anomalisa (7.78) [14/2]
10) Suffragette (7.07) [12/12]
11) He Named Me Malala (6.22) [13/13]

2016

1) Moonlight (9.19) [1/1]
2) La La Land (8.91) [2/2]
3) Manchester by the Sea (8.13) [5/4]
4) Arrival (8.01) [6/7]
5) Maudie (7.89) [3/9]
6) Sully (7.68) [10/6]
7) Toni Erdmann (7.65) [9/8]
8) Things to Come (7.25) [19/3]
9) Una (6.85) [15/10]
10) California Typewriter (6.78)[13/11]
10) Into the Inferno (6.78) [21/5]
12) Wakefield (6.26) [12/14]
13) Bleed for This (6.12) [14/13]
14) Norman (5.97) [16/15]

2017

1) The Shape of Water (8.72) [2/1]
2) Lady Bird (8.58) [1/5]
3) Faces Places (7.96) [5/2]
4) Darkest Hour (7.90) [3/8]
5) Hostiles (7.78) [4/9]
6) The Rider (7.63) [10/2]
7) Battle of the Sexes (7.62) [6/7]
8) First Reformed (7.32) [13/6]
9) Lean on Pete (7.16) [7/12]
10) First They Killed My Father (7.05) [15/10]
11) Loving Vincent (7.00) [12/11]
12) Wonderstruck (6.6) [10/13]
13) Downsizing (6.17) [16/14)]
14) Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (6.16) [8/15]


2018

1) Roma  (9.20) [1/1]
2) First Man (8.51) [2/2]
3) Free Solo (8.33) [5/3]
4) Cold War (8.16) [6/3]
5) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (7.91) [8/5]
6) The Favourite (7.66) [9/6]
7) Boy Erased (7.43) [4/10]
8) White Boy Rick (6.94) [7/11]
9) The Front Runner (6.74) [10/13]
10) Destroyer (6.69) [12/9]
11) Border (6.57) [16/8]
12) The Old Man and the Gun (6.56) [14/10]


All Time Top Ten Composite scores through 2018:


1) 12 Years a Slave (9.25) 2013 Tie (Won Best Picture)
1) Argo (9.25) 2012 Tie (Won Best Picture)
3) Roma (9.20) 2018 (Won Best Foreign Language Film)
4) Moonlight (9.19) 2016 (Won Best Picture)
5) Birdman (9.18) 2014 (Won Best Picture)
6) Stories We Tell (9.10) 2012
7) Tim's Vermeer (8.97) 2013
8) La La Land (8.91) 2016 (Won Best Director)
9) Spotlight (8.86) 2015 (Won Best Picture)
10) Foxcatcher (8.83) 2014

AND NOW...YOUR 2019 COMPOSITE TELLURIDE RATINGS...

1) Parasite (9.11) [2/1]
2) The Two Popes (8.93) [1/2]
3) Marriage Story (8.54) [4/3]
4) Ford v. Ferrari (8.46) [3/7]
5) A Hidden Life (8.01) [5/5]
6) Waves (7.90) [12/4]
7) Pain and Glory (7.63) [5/9]
8) The Report (7.53) [9/8]
9) Motherless Brooklyn (7.22) [10/11]
10) Uncut Gems (7.00) [14/10]
11) Judy (6.93) [7/13]
12) The Aeronauts (6.75) [8/14]
13) The Climb (6.57) [15/12]


Both Parasite and The Two Popes will join the All Time Composite Top Ten displacing Spotlight and Foxcatcher.

The biggest disconnect between The Peeps and The Pros this year came with the evaluation of Waves where The Pros substantially regarded it more highly (The Pros gave it their fourth highest average rating while The People had it at #12).  Two other films that were somewhat of a disconnect were The Aeronauts and Judy which The People regarded more highly than The Professionals.

Finally, here's the updated Composite All Time Top Ten:


1) 12 Years a Slave (9.25) 2013 Tie (Won Best Picture)
1) Argo (9.25) 2012 Tie (Won Best Picture)
3) Roma (9.20) 2018 (Won Best Foreign Language Film)
4) Moonlight (9.19) 2016 (Won Best Picture)
5) Birdman (9.18) 2014 (Won Best Picture)
6) Parasite (9.11) 2019
7) Stories We Tell (9.10) 2012
8) Tim's Vermeer (8.97) 2013
9) The Two Popes (8.93) 2019
10) La La Land (8.91) 2016 (Won Best Director)


TFF OSCAR HISTORY PART FOUR

Here's the continuation of my project to chart every Oscar nominee in the 21 feature categories that played at the Telluride Film Festival since the first TFF in 1974.  As I move forward with this I will be posting in five year increments.

So today we move to the last half of the 90's.  The number of nominations and wins are indicated in parentheses for each year.


1995 (1)
Shanghai Triad- Cinematography

1996 (11/2)
Sling Blade- Adapted Screenplay-WON, Actor-Billy Bob Thornton
Secrets and Lies- Picture, Actress-Brenda Blethyn, Supporting Actress- Jean Marie Baptiste, Director-Mike Leigh, Original Screenplay
Breaking the Waves- Actress-Emily Watson
Koyla- Foreign Language-WON
Fly Away Home- Cinematography
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life- Documentary

1997 (4/1)
Affliction- Supporting Actor-James Coburn-WON, Actor-Nick Nolte
The Sweet Hereafter- Director- Atom Egoyan, Original Screenplay

1998 (3)
Central Station- Actress- Fernanda Montenegro, Foreign Language
Tango-Foreign Language

1999 (1)
The Straight Story- Actor-Richard Farnsworth



FORD V. FERRARI NEW TRAILER


 Over the weekend 20th Century Fox/Disney released a new trailer for James Mangold's Ford v. Ferrari.  Here that is from YouTube:

And a new poster as well:

TORONTO AWARDS JOJO

The Grolsch Audience Award for favorite film at the Toronto International Film Festival went to Taika Waititi's JoJo Rabbit won the prize.  TFF #46 films came close to the win with Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story named as first runner-up and Bong Joon-ho's Parasite named as second runner-up.

Last year Green Book won the TIFF audience award and then went on to win Best Picture on Oscar night.

Here's coverage of the award from Indiewire.

That's your MTFB for today.  I'll have more on Thursday.

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The Peoples Telluride / The TFF Oscar History Project Part Three / First Official Trailer: Portrait of a Lady on Fire / Thanks

Welcome to Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019...


THE PEOPLES TELLURIDE

After ten days and some 70 responses, The People's Telluride for TFF #46 is complete.  Those responding were asked to rate the films they saw on a scale of 1-5 with 1 being "not so good" and 5 being"OMG! This film is fantastic!"

Before the big reveal, here's some Peoples Telluride history...

The first Peoples Telluride was posted on Sept. 10, 2012.  The top ten films from that year's fest from the populist perspective were:

1) Stories We Tell- 4.80
2) Argo- 4.75
3) The Attack- 4.70
4) The Act of Killing-4.41
5) Wadjda-4.2
6) Amour 4.17
7) Barbara- 4.17
8) The Sapphires-4.11
9) Frances Ha-4.07
10) (Tie)The Hunt and Baraka - 4.00

In subsequent years the top ten were:

2013:

1) Tim's Vermeer (4.67)
2) 12 Years a Slave (4.55)
3) Gravity (4.40)
4) The Lunchbox (4.25)
5) Inside Llewyn Davis (4.15)
6) Nebraska (4.08)
7) All is Lost (4.06)
8) The Wind Rises (4.0)
9) Ida (4.0)
10) The Past (3.81)

2014:

1) The Imitation Game (4.73)
2) Birdman (4.46)
3) Wild Tales (4.23)
4) Foxcatcher (4.20)
5) Merchants of Doubt (4.04)
6) '71 (3.90)
7) Red Army (3.63)
8) Wild (Tie 3.50)
8) Escobar: Paradise Lost (Tie 3.50)
8) Mommy (Tie 3.50)

2015:

1) Room (4.47)
2) Spotlight (4.45)
3) Beasts of No Nation (4.35)
4) Ixcanul (4.31)
5) Son of Saul (4.30)
6) Marguerite (4.23)
7) Black Mass (4.13)
8) Carol (4.02)
9) Rams (3.98)
10) Steve Jobs (3.86)

2016:

1) Moonlight (4.37)
2) La La Land (4.33)
3) Maudie (4.29)
4) The Eagle Huntress (4.21)
5) Manchester by the Sea (4.18)
6) Arrival (4.13)
7) Bright Lights (3.90)
8) Frantz (3.89)
9) Toni Erdmann (3.80)
10) Sully (3.79)

2017:

1) Lady Bird (4.38)
2) The Shape of Water (4.22)
3) Darkest Hour (4.04)
4) Hostiles (3.99)
5) Faces Places (3.71)
6) Battle of the Sexes (3.68)
7) Lean on  Pete (3.66)
8) Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (3.57)
9) The Other Side of Hope (3.45)
10) Wonderstruck (3.43)

And from last year:

1) Roma (4.47)
2) First Man (4.34)
3) Shoplifters (4.29)
4) Boy Erased (4.23)
5) Free Solo (4.19)
6) Cold War (4.02)
7) White Boy Rick (3.88)
8) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (3.81)
9) The Favourite (3.76)
10) The Front Runner (3.69)


The Peoples collective yen best films since I began the poll in 2012 have been:

1) Stories We Tell (4.80) (12)
2) Argo (4.75) (12)
3) The Imitation Game (4.73) (14)
4) The Attack (4.70) (12)
5) Tim's Vermeer (4.67) (13)
6) 12 Years a Slave (4.55) (13)
7) Room (4.47) (15) and Roma (4.47) (18) TIE
9) Birdman (4.46) (14)
10) Spotlight (4.45) (15)


AND NOW...THE 2019 PEOPLES TELLURIDE

16 films had sufficient responses from The People to make the 2019 list:

1) The Two Popes (4.51)
2) Parasite (4.36)
3) Ford v. Ferrari (4.35)
4) Marriage Story (4.14)
5) Pain and Glory (3.81-Tie)
5) A Hidden Life (3.81-Tie)
7) Judy (3.80)
8) The Aeronauts (3.67)
9) The Report (3.66)
10) Motherless Brooklyn (3.64)
11) Lyrebird (3.62)
12) Waves (3.61)
13) Inside Bill's Brain (3.39)
14) Uncut Gems (3.22)
15) The Climb (3.07)
16) First Cow (3.02)

The 4.51 rating for Fernando Meirelles' The Two Popes means it lands in The Peoples Telluride all time top ten (well since I started the thing in 2012) at the #7 spot.  It will displace Spotlight which will drop to #11.

The new All Time Peoples Top Ten now is:

1) Stories We Tell (4.80) (12)
2) Argo (4.75) (12)-Won Best Picture
3) The Imitation Game (4.73) (14) Nominated Best Picture
4) The Attack (4.70) (12)
5) Tim's Vermeer (4.67) (13)
6) 12 Years a Slave (4.55) (13) Won Best Picture
7) The Two Popes (4.51) (19)
8) Roma (4.47) (15) TIE Nominated Best Picture
8) Room (4.47) (18) TIE Nominated Best Picture
10) Birdman (4.46) (14) Won Best Picture


Also...here's were Best Picture Oscar nominees from Telluride have landed on the Peoples list for each year since it was started in 2012:

2012: Argo-4.75 (Winner) #2, Amour-4.17 #6
2013: 12 Years a Slave-4.55 #2 (Winner), Gravity-4.40 #3, Nebraska-4.08 #6
2014: Birdman-4.46 (Winner) #2, The Imitation Game-4.73 #1
2015: Spotlight-4.45 (Winner) #2, Room-4.47 #1
2016: Moonlight-4.37 #1 (Winner), La La Land 4.33 #2, Manchester by the Sea-4.18 #5, Arrival-4.13 #6
2017: The Shape of Water-4.22 #2 (Winner), Lady Bird-4.38 #1, Darkest Hour-4.04 #3
2018: Roma-4.47 #1, The Favourite-3.76 #9


The COMPOSITE TELLURIDE (slamming The Pros and The Peeps together) will be coming your way on Monday!


TFF OSCAR HISTORY PROJECT PART THREE

Here's the continuation of my project to chart every Oscar nominee in the 21 feature categories that played at the Telluride Film Festival since the first TFF in 1974.  As I move forward with this I will be posting in five year increments.

So today we move to the first half of the 90's.  The number of nominations and wins are indicated in parentheses for each year.


1990 (10/2)
-Cyrano de Bergerac- Costumes- WON, Foreign Language,  Actor- Gerard Depardieu, Art Direction, Makeup
-Reversal of Fortune- Actor- Jeremy Irons- WON, Director- Barbet Schroeder, Adapted Screenplay
-The Nasty Girl- Foreign Language
-Ju Dou- Foreign Language

1991 (4)
-Rambling Rose- Actress-Laura Dern, Supporting Actress-Diane Ladd
-Oxen- Foreign Language
-Raise the Red Lantern- Foreign Language
-Wild by Law- Documentary

1992 (6/1)
-The Crying Game- Original Screenplay-WON, Picture, Director-Neil Jordan, Actor-Stephen Rea, Supporting Actor-Jaye Davidson

1993 (12/3)
-The Piano- Actress-Holly Hunter-WON, Supporting Actress-Anna Paquin-WON, Original Screenplay-WON, Picture, Director-Jane Campion, Film Editing, Cinematography, Costumes
-Three Colors: Blue- Director-Krzysztof Kielowski, Original Screenplay
-Farewell My Concubine- Foreign Language, Cinematography

1994 (11/3)
-Bullets Over Broadway- Supporting Actress-Dianne Wiest-WON, Supporting Actress- Jennifer Tilly, Supporting Actor- Chazz Palminteri, Director-Woody Allen, Original Screenplay, Costumes, Art/Set Direction
-Ed Wood- Supporting Actor-Martin Landau-WON, Makeup-WON
-Dust of Life- Foreign Language Film
-Strawberry and Chocolate-Foreign Language


FIRST OFFICIAL TRAILER FOR PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE

Here from Neon is the official trailer for Celine Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire from YouTube:

Portrait is set for U.S. release on Dec. 6th.


THANKS


And finally, for today, big gratitude to some of my industry type friends who not only participated in this year's Professional Telluride but who also pumped its posting this past Monday.  Specifically Sasha Stone and her sight Awards Daily who included much of it on there on Monday.  That's linked here.

Also, Jordan Ruimy had the results up at World Reel on Tuesday.

And Tweets and Re-Tweets Monday came from:  Clayton Davis/Awards Circuit, Marshall Flores/Awards Daily, Chris Willman/Variety, Matt Neglia/Next Best Picture and Erik Anderson/Awards Watch.


That's the blog for today.  More to come on Monday...including the 2019 COMPOSITE TELLURIDE.

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The Professionals Telluride / Oscar and TFF: A History Part Two / Trailers and Such from TFF #46 Films / Re-thinking This Project

Welcome to Monday and the return here at MTFB to the traditional twice a week publishing schedule.

THE PROFESSIONALS TELLURIDE

Here it is.  One week after the last day of the 46th Telluride Film Festival I have for you The Professionals Telluride.  This year's ratings averages for many of the films that played last week.

This year's professionals include a total of 18 pros who attended the festival and represent  broad spectrum of views regarding the film industry.  It includes critics, bloggers and others who are part of the biz.

Here's the list of this year's pros:

Erik Anderson/Awards Watch
J. Don Birnam-Jorge T/SplashReport.com
Clayton Davis/Awards Circuit
Scott Feinberg/The Hollywood Reporter
Marshall Flores/Awards Daily
Mark Johnson/Awards Circuit
Gary Kramer/Salon
Scott Menzel/We Live Entertainment
Kenny Miles/We Live Entertainment
Matt Neglia/Next Best Picture
Eugene Novikov/Rotten Tomatoes
John Rhodes/Screencraft
Christopher Schiller/ScriptMag.com
Sasha Stone/Awards Daily
Anne Thompson/Indiewire
Chris Willman/Variety
Anonymous

Huge thanks to these very busy pros who graciously took the time to supply me with their ratings of the films that they saw last week at TFF #46.

Here's the rundown of the Professionals ratings for each year since I started polling the Pros in 2012.

2018:

1) Roma (4.73)
2) First Man (4.17)
3) Cold War (4.14-tie)
3) Free Solo (4.14-tie)
5) Can You Ever Forgive Me ? (4.11)
6) The Favourite (3.90)
7) Watergate (3.60)
8) Border (3.50)
9) Destroyer (3.25)
10) Boy Erased (3.20)
11) The Old Man and the Gun (3.17)
12) White Boy Rick (3.06)
13) The Front Runner (3.05)

2017:

1) The Shape of Water (4.5)
2) (Tie) Faces Places (4.25)
2) (Tie) Loveless (4.25)
2) (Tie) The Rider (4.25)
5) Lady Bird (4.20)
6) First Reformed (4.0)
7) Battle of the Sexes (3.95)
8) Darkest Hour (3.85)
9) Hostiles (3.79)
10) First They Killed My Father (3.78)
11) Loving Vincent (3.63)
12) Lean on Pete (3.50)
13) Wonderstruck (3.25)
14) Downsizing (3.10)
15) Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2.60)

2016:

1) Moonlight (4.82)
2) La La Land (4.58)
3) Things to Come (4.20)
4) Manchester by the Sea (3.95)
5) Into the Inferno (3.92)
6) Sully (3.89)
7) Arrival (3.88)
8) Toni Erdmann (3.85)
9) Maudie (3.60)
10) Una (3.44)
11) California Typewriter (3.25)
12) Neruda (3.00)
13) Bleed for This (2.71)
14) Wakefield (2.67)
15) Norman (2.67)

2015:

1) Son of Saul (4.44)
2) Anomalisa (4.42)
3) Spotlight (4.41)
4) Steve Jobs (4.31)
5) Beasts of No Nation (4.27)
6) Carol (4.11)
7) 45 Years (4.06)
8) Taxi (4.00)
9) Black Mass (3.85)
10) Time to Choose (3.57)
11) Room (3.50)
12) Suffragette (3.49)
13) He Named Me Malala (2.83)

2014:

1) Birdman (4.72)

2) Foxcatcher (4.63)

       3) ’71 (4.25)

       4)  Wild Tales (4.20)

       5)  Leviathan (4.17)

       6)  Mr. Turner (4.10) 

       7)  The Imitation Game (4.06)

       8)  Mommy (3.92)

       9)  Two Days, One Night (3.90)

       10) The Homesman (3.80)

       11)  Red Army (3.67)

       12)  Madame Bovary (3.30)

       13)  Wild (3.21)

       14)  Rosewater (3.06)

2013:

1) 12 Years a Slave (4.7)
2) Blue is the Warmest Color (4.4)
3) Gravity (4.35)
4) Tim's Vermeer (4.3)
5) Nebraska (4.3)
6) All is Lost (4.2)
7) Inside Llewyn Davis (4.1)
8) Starred Up (4.0)
9) The Past (3.9)
10) Labor Day (3.6)
11) Bethlehem (3.6)
12) Prisoners (3.5)
13) The Lunchbox (3.5)
14) Salinger (3.3)
15) The Unknown Known (3.3)
16) Palo Alto (3.2)
17) Tracks (3.2)
18) Under the Skin (3.1)
18) (tie) The Wind Rises (3.1)
20) The Invisible Woman (3.0)


2012:

1) Central Park Five-4.7
2) Argo-4.5
3) Stories We Tell- 4.3
4) The Sapphires 4.25
5) (Tie) Frances Ha and The Attack- 4.2
7) Rust and Bone- 4.0
8) The Iceman- 3.8
9) At Any Price- 3.7
10) (Tie) Amour and Baraka- 3.5
12) No- 3.4
14) (Tie) Hyde Park on Hudson and The Gatekeepers 3.0
15) Everyday- 2.8

And the all time TFF Top Ten prior to the films of TFF #46 according to the industry pros since starting this in 2012:

1) Moonlight (4.87) (16)
2) Roma (4.73) (18)
3) Birdman (4.72) (14)
4) 12 Years a Slave (4.70-tie) (13)
4) Central Park Five (4.70-tie) (12)
6) Foxcatcher (4.63) (14)
7) La La Land (4.58) (16)
8) Argo (4.50-tie) (12)
8) The Shape of Water (4.50-tie) (17)
10) Son of Saul (4.44) (15)


15 films earned enough responses from the Pros to make it onto the list  for this year.

And now...drumroll please...This year's Professionals Telluride (with averaged rating in parenthesis):

1) Parasite (4.75)
2) The Two Popes (4.42)
3) Marriage Story (4.40)
4) Waves (4.29)
5) A Hidden Life (4.20)
6) Portrait of a Lady on Fire (4.17)
7) Ford v. Ferrari (4.11)
8) The Report (3.87)
9) Pain and Glory (3.83)
10) Uncut Gems (3.78)
11) Motherless Brooklyn (3.58)
12) The Climb (3.50)
13) Judy (3.13)
14) The Aeronauts (3.08)
15) The Assistant (2.75)


Parasite's 4.75 moves it to the #2 spot on the Top Ten films to play Telluride among the Pros since I started collecting these responses in 2o12.  The new All Time Top Ten:

1) Moonlight (4.87) (16)
2) Parasite (4.75) (19)
3) Roma (4.73) (18)
4) Birdman (4.72) (14)
5) 12 Years a Slave (4.70-tie) (13)
6) Central Park Five (4.70-tie) (12)
7) Foxcatcher (4.63) (14)
8) La La Land (4.58) (16)
9) Argo (4.50-tie) (12)
9) The Shape of Water (4.50-tie) (17)
10) Son of Saul (4.44) (15)


And finally...because MTFB is about to change its focus to the Oscar prospects for this year's crop of films from TFF...  Here's where Oscar nominees for Best Picture from TFF have landed each year according  to The Professionals:

2012: Argo-4.50 (Winner) #2, Amour-3.50 #10
2013: 12 Years a Slave-4.70 #1 (Winner), Gravity-4.35 #3, Nebraska-4.30 #5
2014: Birdman-4.72 (Winner) #1, The Imitation Game-4.06 #7
2015: Spotlight-4.41 (Winner) #3, Room-3.50 #11
2016: Moonlight-4.82 #1 (Winner), La La Land 4.48 #2, Manchester by the Sea-3.95 #4, Arrival-3.88 #7
2017: The Shape of Water-4.50 #1 (Winner), Lady Bird-4.20 #5, Darkest Hour-3.85 #8
2018: Roma-4.74 #1, The Favourite-3.90 #6

THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE IS COMING ON THURSDAY...YOUR RATING DEADLINE IS TOMORROW EVENING.



OSCAR AND TFF: A HISTORY PROJECT PART TWO

Picking up where I left off last week...here's the continuation of my project to chart every Oscar nominee in the 21 feature categories that played at the Telluride Film Festival since the first TFF in 1974.  As I move forward with this I will be posting in five year increments.

So today we move to the latter half of the 80's.  The number of nominations and wins are indicated in parentheses for each year.

1985 (2)
Colonel Redl- Foreign Language
The Journey of Natty Gann- Costumes

1986 (3)
Blue Velvet- Director-David Lynch
The Decline of the American Empire- Foreign Language
My Secret Little Village- Foreign Language

1987 (4/1)
Babette's Feast-Foreign Language- WON (first win for Best Foreign Film from TFF)
Au Revoir Les Enfants- Foreign Language, Original Screenplay
The Whales of August- Supporting Actress-Ann Sothern

1988 (2)
Salaam Bombay- Foreign Language
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown- Foreign Language

1989 (6/2)
My Left Foot- Actor-Daniel Day Lewis-WON (first Best Actor win from TFF) , Supporting Actress- Brenda Fricker-WON (first win for Best Supporting Actress from TFF) , Picture, Director-Jim Sheridan, Adapted Screenplay
Cinema Paradiso-Foreign Language-WON
Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren- Documentary
(First TFF with multiple Oscar wins)

On Thursday, I'll have the TFF Oscar history from 1990-1994.



TRAILERS AND SUCH FROM TFF #46 FILMS

Since last Thursday's post we have seen the emergence of a trailer as well as a behind-the-scene featurette and a clip from TFF #46 films.  Here they are:

TRAILER FOR WAVES

FEATURETTE FOR JUDY

CLIP FROM BILLIE

The word is that we can also expect a new trailer for Ford v. Ferrari very soon.




RE-THINKING THIS PROJECT

Now that TFF #46 is in the rear view...

This year's experience at TFF was different for a variety of reasons not the least of which was the decision by the Festival to deny my annual request to be accredited as a journalist.  I had been granted that status for eight years running and it became particularly useful in 2017 and 2018 as my pass status changed from the Patron Pass that had been a gift from former students who also hosted us in Telluride.

As you all know, that Patron Pass was a Golden Ticket.  When that situation changed in 2017 (and, in fairness, I had known that would be the case for a number of years) the journalist credential became very important.  It doesn't afford quite the same ease of access as a Patron Pass but it gets close.

I don't know why the request was denied but I have a couple of pretty good guesses.  At the top of the list are posts that may not have been well received by the fest folks.  And, of course, I have no doubt that the fest does not care for the central organizing principle of the blog...sussing out the possible films that will make the lineup before they're announced each year.

The festival explained in the email that denied the press credential that I was welcome to apply for the journalist accreditation again next year, but there is no guarantee that I get approved.  And I fully understand and acknowledge that the fest has every right to accredit who gets the credential and who doesn't.  I get that.

Further, I get how whiny this sounds.  Privileged and whiny.  For the vast majority of folks who attend with the Festival, Acme or Cinephile passes or who stand by in the individual ticket sales lines...this must seem, and understandably so, like just so much unearned grumpiness.

Yea...I get that too.

And yet, the whining continues...

I did eight films this year.  My average has been 11.

Other considerations...

As all of you know...Festival level passes are pricey (and required for anyone requesting journalist status) and lodging in Telluride is, let's say... a challenge both in terms of cost and availability.  Many of you know that my real gig is teaching at a public high school in Oklahoma...so you probably have a reasonable notion of my annual income.

Then there's the time and miles.  It's a lot.

I will say that it is heartening to speak to readers on line and around town.  I honestly don't know how many people read the thing but it seems like a bunch.  I also am pleased at the number of times one of the journalists (you know, the accredited ones) that come into town to cover the fest pass along the value that they place on the blog via email, Twitter or in person at the fest.  I have often wondered at what level, if any, the blog gets read by Guests of the fest.  I know that it happens at least a little bit because of a couple of past experiences.

As I've said on a number of occasions, when I first started this thing, I really didn't know if anyone would ever read it and, even if they did, whether anyone would take it seriously.

I just know that I felt untethered and lost last week and I'm not sure what I do to change that between now and next Labor Day or, more accurately, between now and when passes go on sale.

I have heard and seen in print this effort described as a "passion project" and it has been but the passion took a hit this year and I'm not sure where that lands me over the next few months.

Bottom line...maybe nothing changes...maybe it all changes.  At this point it's all up in the air (Jason Reitman/George Clooney TFF #36 reference).

Thanks for letting me ramble.


That's today's MTFB.  More to come on Thursday including THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE. Your deadline to rate TFF #46 films is tomorrow evening!

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Keep Those Ratings Coming / TFF Oscar Project Part One / Diego Maradona Trailer / Full Disclosure

Thursday...still exhausted...


KEEP THOSE RATINGS COMING

First of all a big thanks to all of you who have already sent me your ratings of the films that you saw in Telluride last weekend.  The numbers have been steadily coming in but we're still at about half the level of respondents that we had last year so, if you saw films and would like to contribute to the collective evaluation of the films that played TFF #46...the polls are still open and will be until next Tuesday evening at 9:00 EDT/5:00 PDT.

As a reminder, I include the collective rating for films that have received at least a level of 25% of the maximum possible of number of people that actually do participate which means that films that don't get rated by a sufficient number of respondents won't make it into the list.  My feeling is that the 25% threshold provides a large enough sample size to adequately compare ratings of film to film.

At this point it looks like some films already will have enough votes to make the list including:

The Aeronauts
The Climb
Ford v. Ferrari
Judy
Lyrebird
Marriage Story
Motherless Brooklyn
Parasite
The Report
The Two Popes
Uncut Gems
Waves

On the bubble:

A Hidden Life
Inside Bill's Brain
Pain and Glory

Other films may struggle to reach the necessary threshold to make the final list.

So keep those ratings coming in.  My plan is to publish The Peoples Telluride a week from today.

Meanwhile, the Professionals are about half way in.  When those ratings get published is a bit up in the air in as far as I'm waiting for a few of them to get their ratings into me.

As always, you can rate your films via any of the methods of contact listed at the bottom of this post.


TFF OSCAR PROJECT PART ONE

Not long ago I did a quick roundup of Oscar nominees in the eight main categories from Telluride films since 2005.  After that process, I started thinking that someone needed to do an entire history of Telluride films and the Oscar.

For the past three months or so, I have gone back to the beginning and researched all of the Oscar nominees and winners in the 21 feature categories that were screened at Telluride prior to their nominations.

As a result, beginning today and over the next month or so, I will be presenting the Oscar History of the Telluride Film Festival.  Eventually, after I get the whole history posted as a part of the dual weekly postings, I will post a new page dedicated to the one stop spot for that history.

So, I start today with the TFF Oscar Project Part One 1974-1985 (nominations for the films from a particular year's fest and wins are in parentheses):

1974 (3)
The Conversation- Picture, Original Screenplay, Sound

1981 (2)
Eight Minutes to Midnight- Documentary
Three Brothers-Foreign Language

1983 (5)
Carmen- Foreign Language
Entre Nous- Foreign Language
El Norte-Original Screenplay
Seeing Red- Documentary
Testament- Best Actress- Jane Alexander (first acting nomination from TFF)

1984 (2/1)
Camila- Foreign Language
The Times of Harvey Milk-Documentary-WON (first Oscar win from TFF)

1985 (2)
Colonel Redl- Foreign Language
The Journey of Natty Gann- Costumes


Stay tuned for the continuation of this series over the next few weeks.


DIEGO MARADONA TRAILER

Released just prior to the opening of TFF #46, the folks at HBO dropped this trailer for the documentary Diego Maradona...which examines the life and career of the world famous soccer player.

Here's that trailer from YouTube:

FULL DISCLOSURE

So, as it turns out, I was NOT perfect this year.  I misread the lineup when it was released a week ago.  My final list of 25 Bets included Hirokazu Kore-eda's The Truth.  Somehow I thought it WAS in the lineup announcement and it wasn't.  Consequently, rather than being 25 for 25 for TFF #46, MTFB was actually 24 of 25.

Over the last four years the final pre-SHOW predictions have been 93 of 95.

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