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Monday, February 10, 2020

And the Oscar Goes to...Parasite / The "Telluride Effect" Returns

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... PARASITE




TFF #46 films in Bold

BEST PICTURE
Winner: Parasite 

BEST DIRECTION
Winner: Bong Joon-ho/Parasite

BEST ACTRESS
Winner: Renee Zellweger/Judy

BEST ACTOR
Winner: Joaquin Phoenix/Joker

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Winner: Laura Dern/Marriage Story

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Winner: Brad Pitt/Once Upon a Time...

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Winner: Jojo Rabbit

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Winner: Parasite

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
Winner: Parasite

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Winner: American Factory

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Winner: Toy Story 4

BEST FILM EDITING
Winner: Ford v Ferrari

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Winner: 1917

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Winner: I'm Gonna Love Me Again/Rocketman

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Winner: Joker

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Winner: 1917

BEST COSTUMES
Winner: Little Women

BEST MAKEUP/HAIR
Winner: Bombshell

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Winner: 1917

BEST SOUND EDITING
Winner: Ford v Ferrari

BEST SOUND MIXING
Winner: 1917

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
Winner: The Neighbor's Window

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Winner: Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)

BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Winner: Hair Love


Telluride films win eight Oscars: Picture, Direction, Original Screenplay and INternational Film for Parasite.  Film Editing and Sound Editing for Ford v Ferrari.  Best Actress for Renee Zellweger in Judy and Best Supporting Actress for Laura Dern in Marriage Story

My personal prediction rate for Oscar #92: 19 of 24 for a 79.2% rate almost exactly my prediction average for the last decades (79.6%)

Surprises were all but non-existent.  If you check out Sunday's predictions here you'll see that in every instance where I missed the film that won, the film I had listed as a "Maybe" picked up the trophy.

That said, the Parasite wins for directing and Best Picture were electrifying.  Parasite, as I noted yesterday, had clearly been gaining momentum and a lot of Oscar pundits did call for it to win.  Despite that, there was still a real sense of surprise in the hall, at least so it seemed to me, when Jane Fonda made the announcement.

Parasite's win is historic as it marks the first time in the Academy's history that a non-English language film has won Best Picture.  My bet is that the diversification initiative that the Academy has been pursuing regarding its membership over the past few years made Parasite's win a reality.  Additionally, as my friend Sasha Stone is fond of saying...Actors rule...and it feels like that branch of the Academy (its largest) made the difference over 1917 which had won awards from the PGA, DGA, Bafta and the Golden Globe for drama.




THE "TELLURIDE EFFECT" RETURNS




And, of course, Parasite's Best Picture win brings Telluride back into the conversation as an indispensable stop for films that are serious Oscar contenders.  The Telluride string was broken last year with Green Book's win but Parasite re-establishes TFF in the Oscar pantheon with the 10th Best Picture winner in the last 12 years having screened at the Fest prior to its winning the top honor.

You have to hand it to Tom Luddy, Julie Huntsinger and the rest of the crew that curates the fest's selections.  Parasite wins four Oscars plus Best Picture nominations for Marriage Story and Ford v Ferrari meaning that a full third of the BP nominees played Telluride plus The Two Popes which may well have been the 10th place film in initial balloting.  Don't forget Renee Zellweger's Best Actress winning turn in Judy which bowed at Telluride before anywhere else and Laura Dern's win for Best Supporting Actress.


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