The National Board of Review released its choices for the best films in 2019 on Tuesday. Martin Scorsese's The Irishman was named best film of the year. NBR also includes superlatives in a number of lists and categories. TFF #46 standout Parasite was named Best Foreign Language Film.
Among their Ten Best films of the year were these TFF #46 entrants:
Ford v Ferrari
Marriage Story
Uncut Gems
Waves
From the NBR list of the five Best Foreign Language Films:
Pain and Glory
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
And from their list of the Ten Best Independent Films:
A Hidden Life
Judy
Other individual awards from NBR for TFF #46 films/performances included:
Adam Sandler-Best Actor-Uncut Gems
Renee Zellweger-Best Actress-Judy
Uncut Gems-Best Original Screenplay
The complete rundown of the NBR's awards is linked here from Indiewire.
AFI AND TELLURIDE
In addition to the NBR announcement on Tuesday we also saw revealed the "Best of 2019" list from the American Film Institute.
In as far as far as TFF films are concerned, only Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story made the AFI Top Ten list. AFI did name Bong Joon-ho's Parasite as a special award winner.
Here's the complete lowdown of AFI's lists from The Wrap.
GOTHAM AWARD WINNERS: MARRIAGE STORY WINS BIG
The Gotham Awards were passed out earlier this week and Noah Baumbach's TFF #46 film Marriage Story did very, very well. It was named Best Feature, Best Screenplay and Adam Driver was named Best Actor. The film was also named winner of the Gotham's Audience Award.
The other TFF #46 awarded film came for Taylor Russell as Breakthrough Performer for Waves.
The complete Gothams award list is linked here from Indiewire.
NEW YORK CRITICS AND TELLURIDE
The New York Film Critics Circle also announced their " Best of" for 2019 yesterday and the list of winners included these TFF #46 entrants:
Best Director: The Safdie Brothers/Uncut Gems
Best Actor: Antonio Banderas/Pain and Glory
Best Supporting Actress: Laura Dern/Marriage Story and Little Women
Best Cinematography: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Best Foreign Language Film: Parasite
and Randy Newman was awarded a "Special Award" One has to think that, in part, he was being recognized for his work on the score for Marriage Story
The NYFCC named Martin Scorsese's The Irishman as the Best Film of the year.
You can see the entire list of NYFCC award winners from Indiewire by clicking here.
AND IT'S NEVER TOO EARLY...
The first big list of most anticipated films for 2020 is out from The Playlist. That outlet posted its 100 Most Anticipated Films for 2020 on Tuesday and I have culled it for the dozen films that seem the most TFF #47 friendly...at least on the surface.
Largely these 12 films make my cut based on TFF history. Here they are (in reverse order of their position on The Playlist list):
83) The White Tiger (d. Ramin Bahrani)
66) Mainstream (d. Gia Coppola)
64) Good Night Midnight (d. George Clooney)
59) Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (d. George C. Wolfe)
55) The Trial of the Chicago 7 (d. Aaron Sorkin)
48) Stillwater (d. Tom McCarthy)
27) Nomadland (d. Chloe Zhao)
17) I'm Thinking of Ending Things (d. Charlie Kaufman)
16) Bergman Island (d. Mia Hansen-Love)
13) Nightmare Alley (d. Guillermo Del Toro)
9) Mank (d. David Fincher)
4) Dune (d. Denis Villnueve)
The Playlist's top anticipated film is Christopher Nolan's Tenet.
The complete list of 100 films plus some honorable mentions is linked here.
UPDATED OSCAR PREDICTIONS: INTERNATIONAL, DOCS, ANIMATED FEATURE
I'm updating my predictions today for three categories: International, Documentary and Animated Features. Their last predicted position is indicated in parentheses; TFF #46 films are Bold.
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
1) Parasite (1)
2) Pain and Glory (2)
3) Les Miserables (3)
4) Atlantics (4)
5) This Invisible Life (-)
6) Corpus Christi (-)
Other possibles: And Then They Danced, Monos, Beanpole
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
1) American Factory (1)
2) Apollo 11 (2)
3) One Child Nation (3)
4) For Sama (-)
5) Honeyland (-)
6) The Biggest Little Farm (-) (TFF #45)
Other possibles: Sea of Shadows, Edge of Democracy, The Cave, The Kingmaker
ANIMATED FEATURE
1) Toy Story 4 (1)
2) Frozen II (2)
3) I Lost My Body (4)
4) The Missing Link (3)
5) How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (5)
6) Klaus (-)
Other possibles: Abominable, Funan
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