Thursday, October 8, 2020

Oscar 2021 First Attempt-Best Adapted Screenplay / TFF #47 Running Totals / The Wrap Talks Truffles

 OSCAR 2021 FIRST ATTEMPT-BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY





MTFB continues its first pass at predicting Oscar nominees for 2020-21 in various major categories.  Today we're looking at Best Adapted Screenplay with, as always, a focus on those performances that were a part of the list of 29 films that TFF released that would have been screened as a part of TFF #47.  Performers designated with *** are in films that may not be released prior to the Feb, 28, 2021 Oscar eligibility deadline.   TFF#47 performers are in Bold:

1) Nomadland
2) The Father
3) One Night in Miami
4) News of the World***
5) Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
6) I'm Thinking of Ending Things
7) Hillbilly Elegy***
8) First Cow+++
9) The U.S. vs. Billie Holiday
10) French Exit

+++ First Cow was a TFF #46 selection.

TFF #47 RUNNING TOTALS





Here are the running totals of predicted nominations regarding TFF #47 films.  I'll add to this over the next week as I add the screenplay categories.

Nomadland: Best Picture, Director (Zhao), Actress (McDormand), Supporting Actor (Stratharin), Adapted Screenplay.
Ammonite: Best Picture, Actress (Winslet), Supporting Actress (Ronan).  Maybe: Director (F. Lee)
The Father: Actor (Hopkins), Supporting Actress (Colman)., Adapted Screenplay Maybe: Best Picture, Director (Zeller).


THE WRAP TALKS TRUFFLES




The Wrap's Steve Pond recently sat down with the co-directors of the documentary The Truffle Hunters.  Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw talked about their discovery of the world of men and dogs who are immersed in the unusual world of searching for one of nature's most rare gastronominc delicacies.  






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