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Thursday, November 28, 2019

Oscar Predictions Update: Director and Screenplays / Interviews with Directors: Baumbach, Norton, Meirelles

OSCAR PREDICTION UPDATES: DIRECTOR AND SCREENPLAYS



Here are my most recent picks for Oscar nominations in the categories of Directing, and Adapted and Original Screenplay.  These categories were last posted on Nov. 18th.  I have indicated the last time I posted them as well as that film's position in that previous posting.  As always all films from TFF #46 are in Bold.

BEST DIRECTION

1) Quentin Tarantino/Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (2)
2) Bong Joon-ho/Parasite (1)
3) Martin Scorsese/The Irishman (3)
4) Sam Mendes/1917 (5)
5) Noah Baumbach/Marriage Story (4)
6) Taika Waititi/Jojo Rabbit (6)

Other possibles: Fernando Meirelles/The Two Popes, James Mangold/Ford v Ferrari, Todd Phillips/Joker, Clint Eastwood/Richard Jewell


ADAPTED SCREENPLAY



1) The Two Popes (3)
2) Jojo Rabbit (1)
3) The Irishman (2)
4) Joker (5)
5) Little Women (4)
6) Hustlers (-)

Other possibles; Richard Jewell, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Judy


ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY



1) Marriage Story (1)
2) Once Upon a Time... (2)
3) Parasite (3)
4) The Farewell (4)
5) 1917 (-)
6) Bombshell (5)

Other possibles: Dolemite Is My Name, Knives Out, Honey Boy




INTERVIEWS WITH DIRECTORS: NOAH BAUMBACH, EDWARD NORTON AND FERNANDO MEIRELLES



Noah Baumbach photo from Interview



Nadja Sayej talks with Edward Norton about Motherless Brooklyn.  Here's the link to that interview.


Pete Hammond talks to Norton in this interview for Deadline's Contender series.  That is linked here.


Gold Derby's Zach Laws talks to The Two Popes' director Fernando Merirelles.  That is linked here.



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