OSCAR 2021 FIRST ATTEMPT-BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
MTFB continues its first pass at predicting Oscar nominees for 2020-21 in various major categories. Today we're looking at Best Original 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) The Trial of the Chicago 7
2) Mank
3) Minari
4) Soul
5) Judas and the Black Messiah
6) Never Rarely Sometimes Always
7) Da 5 Bloods
8) Promising Young Woman
9) Ammonite
10) Palm Springs
TFF #47 RUNNING TOTALS
Nomadland: Best Picture, Director (Zhao), Actress (McDormand), Supporting Actor (Stratharin), Adapted Screenplay. Total of 5 in these categories.
Ammonite: Best Picture, Actress (Winslet), Supporting Actress (Ronan). Maybe: Director (F. Lee) Best Original Screenplay. Total: 2.
The Father: Actor (Hopkins), Supporting Actress (Colman)., Adapted Screenplay Maybe: Best Picture, Director (Zeller). Total: 3
VARIETY'S DAVIS LOOKS AT DOCUMENTARY OSCAR CHANCES
Newly minted Variety Oscarologist Clayton Davis is a busy man as he has Oscar nomination predictions up at the venerable website/publication for 19 categories at this early stage of the now elongated Oscar season.
The most recent category addition to his Oscar analysis is for Best Documentary Feature. Among his Top 20 are a number of titles that were on the TFF #47 "Would Have Played" list. They are:
1) All In:The Fight for Democracy
8) MLK/FBI
9) The Truffle Hunters
12) The Way I See It
INDIEWIRE TALKS WITH NOMADLAND'S CHLOE ZHAO
Recently, Indiewire chief critic Eric Kohn talked to director/writer Chloe Zhao whose Nomadland has made big waves over the last month. The film won both the Golden Lion at Venice and the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Zhao talks about the process that she used in collaboration with star Frances McDormand in order to make one of the most critically lauded films of 2020.
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