Thursday, November 19, 2020

Oscar Update: Best Director / Ammonite News / The Climb Releases / MLK/FBI Trailer

 OSCAR UPDATE: BEST DIRECTOR


Here are my latest Oscar nomination predictions for Best Direction updated since I last posted this category on  Sept. 21st.  A director's past position is indicated to the right in parentheses.  TFF #47 films are indicated in Bold.


1) Chloe Zhao/Nomadland (1)
2) David Fincher/Mank (2)
3) Aaron Sorkin/The Trial of the Chicago 7 (4)
4) Regina King/One Night in Miami (7)
5) Florian Zeller/The Father (6)
6) Spike Lee/Da 5 Bloods (5)
7) Lee Isaac Chung/Minari (10)
8) Paul Greengrass/News of the World (3)
9) George C. Wolfe/Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (9)
10)Shaka King/Judas and the Black Messiah (8)

Others: Christopher Nolan/Tenet
Hot: Regina King, Lee Isaac Chung
Not: Paul Greengrass, Shaka King, Francis Lee, Sophia Coppola


AMMONITE NEWS


Annabelle Gutterman separates fact from fiction about the characters and story of Ammonite for Tome.com.  That's linked here.



THE CLIMB RELEASES

From TFF #46. The Climb rose into theaters this past week.  Here's the trailer from YouTube:




 




MLK/FBI TRAILER

Here's the trailer for Sam Pollards' documentary MLK/FBI from YouTube






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