OSCAR UPDATE: BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Here are my latest Oscar nomination predictions for Best Original Screenplay updated since I last posted this category on Oct. 12th. A screenplay's past position is indicated to the right in parentheses. TFF #47 films are indicated in Bold.
1) The Trial of the Chicago 7 (1)
2) Mank (2)
3) Minari (3)
4) Soul (4)
5) Promising Young Woman (8)
6) Judas and the Black Messiah (5)
7) Palm Springs (10)
8) Never Rarely Sometimes Always (6)
9) Da 5 Bloods (7)
10) Ammonite (9)
DOC NYC SHORTLIST FEATURES TFF #47 CHOICES
Indiewire's Anne Thompson reported this week on the 15 film shortlist for DOC NYC. The fest itself opened yesterday with over 100 feature documentaries programmed.
Thompson points out the influence/predictive power of the fest writing:
"Historically, most of the DOC NYC short list titles overlap with the Academy’s official 15-film Oscar Short List. For the last nine years, DOC NYC has screened the documentary that went on to win the Academy Award, including “American Factory,” “Free Solo,” “Icarus,” “O.J.: Made in America,” “Amy,” “Citizenfour,” “20 Feet From Stardom,” “Searching for Sugar Man,” and “Undefeated.” The festival has screened 24 of the last 25 Oscar-nominated documentary features. In 2019, DOC NYC screened 13 of 15 titles that were named to the subsequent Academy Award Documentary Shortlist."
This year's shortlist includes TFF #47 selections Sam Pollard's MLK/FBI (IFC Films) and Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw's The Truffle Hunters (Sony Pictures Classics).
ALL IN DIRECTORS TALK STACEY ABRAMS AND LAST WEEK'S ELECTION
Eric Kohn of Indiewire published an interview earlier this week with the directors, Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortes, of All In: The Fight for Democracy, a documentary focused on the fight to protect voting rights spearheaded by former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. Abrams is widely credited with what appears to be Joe Biden's win in that state.
The film was a selection of the 47th Telluride Film Festival zand is currently in release on Amazon Prime.
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