OSCAR UPDATE: BEST ACTOR
Here are my latest Oscar nomination predictions for Best Actor updated since I last posted this category on Sept. 24th. A performer's past position is indicated to the right in parentheses. TFF #47 performers are indicated in Bold.
1) Anthony Hopkins/The Father (1)
2) Chadwick Boseman/Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (-)
3) Gary Oldman/Mank (2)
4) Delroy Lindo/Da 5 Bloods (4)
5) Tom Hanks/News of the World (3)
6) Riz Ahmed/The Sound of Metal (-)
7) Steven Yeun/Minari (-)
8) Ben Affleck/The Way Back (8)
9) Joaquin Phoenix/C'mon C'mon (7)
10) Colin Firth/Supernova (-)
Others: Bill Murray/On the Rocks, Daniel Kaluuya or LaKeith Stanfield/Judas and the Black Messiah.
TFF #47 FILMS SCORE AT MONTCLAIR
Chloe Zhao'e Nomadland and Mohammad Rasoulof's There Is No Evil were awarded major prizes at the conclusion of the Montclair Film Festival. The winners were announced Mnday at the conclusion of the ninth annual event.
Nomadland was named winner of the audience award for a fiction feature and There Is No Evil won the jury award for non-fiction feature.
Complete coverage of all of the winners from the Montclair fest can be found linked here from Variety.
CONCRETE COWBOY RIDES TO NETFLIX
Ricky Staub's Concrete Cowboy, a selection of the "would have been" 47th Telluride Film Festival, has been acquired by Netflix. Concrete Cowboy stars Idris Elba and was screened as a part of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Variety reports that the film will be released by Netflix at some point in 2021.
The IMDb description of the film is as follows:
"A teenager discovers the world of urban horseback riding when he moves in with his estranged father in North Philadelphia."
ODDS AND ENDS
Here are a few other tidbits that I found interesting...
1)The Hollywood Reporter reports that the entire cast of Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7 will be campaigned as Supporting Actors: The link to the THR story is here.
For my money look at Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jeremy Strong, Mark Rylance and Frank Langella.
2) ShowBiz 411 reports that MGM has re-dated Leisl Tommy's Respect, which stars Jennifer Hudson as Aretha Franklin, for August 13, 2021 which means two things. First, the move bumps the film and Hudson out of this year's Oscar race and second...the August date guarantees that the film will NOT be a part of a TFF #48 (if that's what it's referenced as) lineup. I had Hudson at #3 in the Best Actress predictions in last Monday's post.
3) Trailer drops for George Clooney's Midnight Sky from Netflix. Here it is via YouTube:
The film is scheduled for release on Netflix on Dec. 23rd.
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