Here are my latest Oscar nomination predictions for Best Actress updated since I last posted this category on Oct. 26th. A performer's past position is indicated to the right in parentheses. TFF #47 performers are indicated in Bold.
1) Frances McDormand/Nomdaland (2)
2) Vanessa Kirby/Pieces of a Woman (3)
3) Viola Davis/Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1)
4) Carey Mulligan/Promising Young Woman (5)
5) Sophia Loren/The Life Ahead (9)
6) Kate Winslet/Ammonite (7)
7) Michelle Pfeiffer/French Exit (8)
8) Andra Day/The People (10)
9) Amy Adams/Hillbilly Elegy (6)
10) Meryl Streep/The Prom (-)
Others: Elizabeth Moss/Invisible Woman, Sienna Miller/ Wander Darkly
Hot: Vanessa Kirby, Sophia Loren, Andra Day, Meryl Streep
Not: Michelle Pfeiffer, Amy Adams
Notes: Currently the top three candidates are bunched very tightly and are all looking like locks. The rest of the filed for the final two nominations is also tightly bunched but way, way back of McDormand, Kirby and Davis.
FULL TRAILER FOR YOUR (BEE GEES) BROKEN HEART
HBO Max dropped a new full length trailer for the Frank Marshall documentary The Bee Gees: How Do You Mend a Broken Heart this past weekend. This follows up a teaser that I had here back on Nov. 2nd.
Here's the look at the new 2 1/2 minute trailer from YouTube:
NOMADLAND ODDS AND ENDS
Chloe Zhao's Nomadland won a big honor this week within the craft of cinematography at the EnergaCamerimage Film Festival Golden Frog Award as well as FIPRESCI Jury Prize honors. The fest honors the best in international cinematography each year. Joker won the Golden Frog last year.
Meanwhile, Tom Bruggemann, writing for Indiewire, had an interesting article up this week about how Searchlight has taken something of a traditionalist approach (if such a thing is even imaginable in the age of Covid-19) to the Awards campaign for Nomadland.
The film is thought to be strong contender for nominations for Picture, Director (Zhao), Actress (McDormand), Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography and Film Editing with outside shots for Supporting Actress (Swankie) and Supporting Actor (Stratharin).
NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN PICKED UP BY KINO LORBER
Polish feature, Never Gonna Snow Again, a selection for what would have been TFF #47 as well as Poland's submission for consideration for Best International Feature, has been acquired for North American distribution by Kino Lorber.
The film was a Venice premiere where it won the Premio Fondazione Fai Persona Lavoro Ambiente Award. It was also screened as a pert of the BFI London Film Festival among others.
Never Gonna Snow Again was directed by Małgorzata Szumowska and co-directed by Michał Englert. It is described by IMDb:
"Zhenia, a Russian-speaking immigrant from the East works as a masseur in Poland and becomes a guru-like figure in a wealthy gated community where his clients live."
BERLIN LOOMING
Organizers of the Berlin Film Festival have announced plans for a stripped down but still physical version of the fest. Deadline reports that the festival is currently dated for Feb. 11-21, 2021.
From the Andreas Wideman/Deadline article:
"A festival spokesperson told us: “The Berlinale still plans to take place as a physical event in February. Press screenings and public screenings will take place, as always, in the cinemas, but access will be possible only with pre-booked tickets for allocated seats."
Berlin often is the premiere festival for a couple of films that ultimately become choices for Telluride.
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