The Board of Governors for The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be meeting virtually later today. They are widely believed to decide that they will move the dates for the Oscar ceremony from its current date of Feb. 28th.
Some speculation has it that the ceremony could be pushed to March or even as late as April. We should know something more after the Board meeting today.
AMPAS has already made the decision to alter the eligibility rules to allow films that did not screen ina theater but had a release date scheduled to be eligible for the Oscar.
Should the organization make the decision to change dates, that also raises questions about whether there might be other tweaking regarding eligibilty and release dates. Additionally, one wonders if an Oscar date change will create a domino effect among other awards programs and the guild awards.
And, of course, you have to wonder what effect, if any, an Oscar date change might have on Telluride and the other fall film fests.
Indiewire's Anne Thompson took on a number of these issues in an article published on Tuesday which I have linked here.
THE DISTRIBS: SONY PICTURES CLASSICS
Over the past couple of decades of the Telluride Film Festival no distributor has had more features scheduled than Sony Pictures Classics. Here's the run for the last several years:
2019: The Climb, Lyrebird, Pain and Glory (3)
2018: The White Crow (1)
2017: A Fantastic Woman, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, Foxtrot, Loveless, The Rider (5)
2016: The Eagle Huntress, Maudie, Norman, Toni Erdmann (4)
2015: Son of Saul (1)
2014: Foxcatcher, Leviathan, Red Army, Mr. Turner, Wild Tales, Salt of the Earth and Merchants of Doubt (7)
2013: The Invisible Woman, The Lunchbox, The Past, Tim's Vermeer and Jodorowsky's Dune (5)
2012: The Gatekeepers, At Any Price, Rust and Bone, No, Wadjda, Amour (6)
2011: A Dangerous Method, In Darkness, Footnote, A Separation (4)
2010: Incendies, Of Gods and Men, Tamara Drewe, Another Year, The Illusionist, Inside Job (6)
2009: The Last Station, The White Ribbon, Coco Before Chanel, A Prophet, An Education (5)
2008: Waltz with Bashir, I've Loved You So Long, O'Horten (3)
2007: Brick Lane, When Did You Last See Your Father, Persepolis, The Band's Visit, The Counterfeiters, Steep! (6)
2006: Jindabyne, The Lives of Others, Volver, The Italian (4)
2005: Breakfast on Pluto, Capote, Cache, The Child (4)
2004: Being Julia, House of Flying Daggers, Bad Education, Merchant of Venice, Up and Down, Yes (6)
2003: The Fog of War, My Life Without Me, The Triplets of Belleville, Young Adam (4)
That's 74 films over a 17 year span for an average of 4.4 films per year.
At this point SPC looks to have only a couple of films that could be in consideration for TFF #47.
The most likely seems to be Zachary Furher's documentary John Prine: Hello in There. I suggest that it's the most likely only because it's post-production date is listed by IMDb as Feb. 2019. You have to figure that it's done.
SPC's other title is Azazel Jacob's French Exit starring Michelle Pfeiffer. It's much mire iffy as it went into post-production very late in the game (Dec. 10, 2019) with respect to the Covid-19 lockdown.
Though SPC only has these two titles in the pipe, they could very easily acquire a property or two that they then turnaround and submit to Telluride for possible inclusion so keep an eye open for news along those lines.
Chances...
Prine 40%
French Exit 20%
Some new acquisition 30%
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