Here are my latest Oscar nomination predictions for Picture, Director and Screenplays. TFF #46 films are indicated in Bold.
LATEST GURUS OF GOLD
Movie City News has posted its latest edition of the Gurus of Gold focused on the Big Eight categories of Best Picture, Direction, all four Acting categories as well as both screenplay categories.
Here's the link to the latest Gurus.
As mentioned here before, I'm serving my second year as a Guru. Also included as Gurus this year are some Oscar predicting heavyweights: Sasha Stone of Awards Daily, Dave Karger of Turner Classic Movies and IMDb, Peter Howell of The Toronto Star, Jeff Sneider of Collider, Gregory Ellwood of The Playlist and Mark Johnson of Awards Watch among others.
You might notice that my Guru picks and my own posted on the blog here today may not line up exactly...Why? Time. My Guru picks were sent in a few days ago, whereas I worked on the freshest picks for today's blog post yesterday and this morning.
AN MTFB FIRST
Well...what do you know?
I've been plugging away at this Blog thing since August of 2008. Lots of cool things have happened as a result of this little experience but had a first this week.
I had an Oscar screener land in my email this week. No...no...it's not Little Women or 1917...
It's a link for a short listed Oscar Short form Documentary film. The film: Yo Seung-Jun's In the Absence. The description included in the email describes the focus of the doc as follows:
"When the passenger ferry MV Sewol sank off the coast of South Korea in 2014, over three hundred people lost their lives, most of them schoolchildren. Years later, the victims’ families and survivors are still demanding justice from national authorities."
The short film's IMDb page is linked here.
According to accompanying material the film screened at DOC NYC and AFI Docs.
Oscar winner Laura Poitras (Citizen Four) is one of the Executive Producers of the film.
I plan to get it in over the holiday break. I'll get back to you about it soon.
TRAILER FOR THE CLIMB
Sony Pictures Classics has released a trailer for low key buddy dramedy The Climb. The film had a modest reception at Telluride. It's set for release on Mar. 20th. Here's the trailer from YouTube:
EMAIL: mpgort@gmail.com OR michael_speech@hotmail.com
BEST PICTURE (last updated 12/16)
1) Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (1)
2) The Irishman (2)
3) Parasite (3)
4) 1917 (4)
5) Marriage Story (5)
6) Jojo Rabbit (6)
7) Joker (7)
8) Ford v Ferrari (8)
9) Bombshell (-)
10) The Two Popes (9)
Other possibles: The Farewell, Little Women. Knives Out
BEST DIRECTION (last updated 12/9)
1) Quentin Tarantino/Once Upon a Time... (2)
2) Bong Joon-ho/Parasite (4)
3) Martin Scorsese/The Irishman (3)
4) Sam Mendes/1917 (1)
5) Noah Baumbach/Marriage Story (5)
6) Todd Phillips/Joker (-)
Other possibles: James Mangold/Ford v Ferrari, Taika Waititi/Jojo Rabbit, Fernando Merrielle's/The Two Popes
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (last updated 12/9)
1) The Irishman (1)
2) Jojo Rabbit (3)
3) The Two Popes (2)
4) Little Women (5)
5) Joker (4)
6) A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (6)
Other possibles: Hustlers, Richard Jewell, Just Mercy, Dolemite Is My Name
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (last updated 12/9)
1) Marriage Story (1)
2) Once Upon a Time... (2)
3) Parasite (3)
4) The Farewell (4)
5) Knives Out (5)
6) Uncut Gems (6)
Other possibles: Bombshell, 1917, Pain and Glory, Ford v Ferrari
LATEST GURUS OF GOLD
Movie City News has posted its latest edition of the Gurus of Gold focused on the Big Eight categories of Best Picture, Direction, all four Acting categories as well as both screenplay categories.
Here's the link to the latest Gurus.
As mentioned here before, I'm serving my second year as a Guru. Also included as Gurus this year are some Oscar predicting heavyweights: Sasha Stone of Awards Daily, Dave Karger of Turner Classic Movies and IMDb, Peter Howell of The Toronto Star, Jeff Sneider of Collider, Gregory Ellwood of The Playlist and Mark Johnson of Awards Watch among others.
You might notice that my Guru picks and my own posted on the blog here today may not line up exactly...Why? Time. My Guru picks were sent in a few days ago, whereas I worked on the freshest picks for today's blog post yesterday and this morning.
AN MTFB FIRST
Well...what do you know?
I've been plugging away at this Blog thing since August of 2008. Lots of cool things have happened as a result of this little experience but had a first this week.
I had an Oscar screener land in my email this week. No...no...it's not Little Women or 1917...
It's a link for a short listed Oscar Short form Documentary film. The film: Yo Seung-Jun's In the Absence. The description included in the email describes the focus of the doc as follows:
"When the passenger ferry MV Sewol sank off the coast of South Korea in 2014, over three hundred people lost their lives, most of them schoolchildren. Years later, the victims’ families and survivors are still demanding justice from national authorities."
The short film's IMDb page is linked here.
According to accompanying material the film screened at DOC NYC and AFI Docs.
Oscar winner Laura Poitras (Citizen Four) is one of the Executive Producers of the film.
I plan to get it in over the holiday break. I'll get back to you about it soon.
TRAILER FOR THE CLIMB
Sony Pictures Classics has released a trailer for low key buddy dramedy The Climb. The film had a modest reception at Telluride. It's set for release on Mar. 20th. Here's the trailer from YouTube:
TAPLEY PODCASTS BAUMBACH
Kris Tapley has put together another of his series of podcasts for Netflix under the name of The Call Sheet. The latest features an outing with Marriage Story director and scribe Noah Baumbach.
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