The national Board of Review drops its list of best films of 2019 tomorrow. Last year its choice for Best Film, Green Book, went on to Oscar glory winning the Best Picture Oscar.
Expect the organization to announce winners of a number of individual awards in addition to Best Film such as Best Direction, Leading and Supporting performances, adapted and original screenplays and others. In addition expect a 10 Best list, a Ten Best Independent Films list, a Five Best Documentaries list and a Five Best Foreign Film list.
TFF #46 films that could make their way onto the NBR's various lists include:
The Aeronauts
Beanpole
The Climb
Diego Maradona
Ford v Ferrari
A Hidden Life
Judy
The Kingmaker
Marriage Story
Pain and Glory
Parasite
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
The Report
The Two Popes
Uncut Gems
Varda by Agnes
Waves
I'll have all the NBR/TFF breakdown on Thursday edition of MTFB.
OSCAR PREDICTIONS UPDATE: ACTING
Here's my latest batch of Oscar updates for the acting category nominations. I last posted acting predictions on Nov. 21. TFF #46 performances are Bold.
BEST ACTRESS
1) Renee Zellweger/Judy (1)
2) Charlize Theron/Bombshell (2)
3) Scarlett Johansson/Marriage Story (3)
4) Saoirse Ronan/Little Women (4)
5) Cynthia Erivo/Harriet (5)
6) Awkwafina/The Farewell (-)
Other possibles: Lupita Nyong'o/Us, Alfre Woodard/Clemency
BEST ACTOR
1) Joaquin Phoenix/Joker (2)
2) Adam Driver/Marriage Story (1)
3) Jonathan Pryce/The Two Popes (3)
4) Leonardo DiCaprio/Once Upon a Time...(4)
5) Robert DeNiro/The Irishman (-)
6) Antonio Banderas/Pain and Glory (5)
Other possibles: George MacKay/1917, Christian Bale/Ford v Ferrari, Eddie Murphy/Dolemite Is My Name, Taron Egerton/Rocketman, Paul Walter Hauser/Richard Jewell
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1) Laura Dern/Marriage Story (1)
2) Jennifer Lopez/Hustlers (2)
3) Margot Robbie/Bombshell (3)
4) Zhao Shuzhen/The Farewell (6)
5) Kathy Bates/Richard Jewell (-)
6) Scarlett Johansson/Jojo Rabbit (5)
Other possibles: Florence Pugh/Little Women, DaVine Joy Randolph/Dolemite Is My Name, Annette Bening/The Report, Maggie Smith/Downton Abbey
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1) Brad Pitt/Once Upon a Time... (1)
2) Al Pacino/The Irishman (2)
3) Joe Pesci/The Irishman (5)
4) Tom Hanks/A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (3)
5) Anthony Hopkins/The Two Popes (4)
6) Sam Rockwell/Richard Jewell (-)
Other possibles: Willem Dafoe/The Lighthouse, Wesley Snipes/Dolemite Is My Name, Alan Alda/Marriage Story, Shia LaBeouf/Honey Boy, Jamie Foxx/Just Mercy
Notes: The buzz surrounding Clint Eastwood's Richard Jewell (releasing Dec. 13) is lifting Kathy Bates, Sam Rockwell and Paul Walter Hauser into the acting conversations. It will be interesting to see if that sustains over the next couple of weeks.
The same is true for young and virtually unknown George MacKay for his work in 1917. The Sam Mendes film has huge buzz after some early screenings and has skyrocketed up a number of the charts from the Oscar experts for Best Picture. Currently Awards Circuit has it at #1. Awards Daily has it at #1 and Awards Watch has it at #4.
FILM MAKERS FEATURED
Annie Howard talks to The Two Popes Screen writer Anthony McCarten for The Hollywood Reporter here.
Anne Thompson of Indiewire talks to Adam Sandler and The Safdie Brothers about Uncut Gems here.
Joey Moser of Awards Daily talks with composer David Wingo about the music of Motherless Brooklyn.
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