Oscar Experts Predict: Sasha Stone-Awards Daily / World of Reel's 35 most Anticipated / New Views of Nomadland / Metacritic on This Year's Films

OSCAR EXPERTS PREDICT: SASHA STONE-AWARDS DAILY

As I have been doing periodically, here's a look at where an Oscar expert is currently predicting for Best Picture and the number and categories of nominations that she is predicting for each.  

Today's expert is founder and head of Awards Daily, website that is regarded as one of the most influential Oscar sites on the web.

The films are ordered by number of nominations.  TFF films are in Bold.

Mank (12 noms): Picture, Director (Fincher), Actor (Oldman), Supporting Actress (Seyfried), Supporting Actor (Howard), Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Production Design, Sound, Costumes, Original Score.

News of the World (10 noms): Picture, Director (Greengrass), Actor: (Hanks), Supporting Actress (Zengel), Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Production Design, Costumes, Original Score,

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (8): Picture, Actress (Davis), Actor (Boseman), Adapted Screenplay, Production Design, Sound, Costumes, Original Score.

Nomadland (6 noms): Picture, Director (Zhao), Actress (McDormand), Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing

The Father (5 noms): Picture, Director (Zeller), Actor (Hopkins), Supporting Actress (Colman), Adapted Screenplay.

The Trial of the Chicago 7 (4 noms): Picture, Supporting Actor (Langella), Film Editing.

Minari (3 noms): Picture, Director (Chung), Supporting Actress (Youn).

One Nigh in Miami (3 noms): Picture, Supporting Actor (Odom), Adapted Screenplay.

Promising Young Woman (3 noms): Picture, Actress (Mulligan), Original Screenplay.

The United States vs. Billie Holiday (1 nom): Picture

 

WORLD OF REEL'S 35 MOST ANICIPATED

Jordan Ruimy's World of Reel website has posted its list of the 35 most anticipated titles for 2020.  Much like I did The Playlist's list earlier this week I have tried to parse the WOR list for TFF #48 possibilities.  Here's what I found (with the position on Jordan's list):

#27) Stillwater

#26) Bergman Island

#24 Petite Maman

#23) Next Goal Wins

#22) C'mon C'mon

#20) Babylon

#19) The Card Counter

#17) The Last Duel

#16) The Power of the Dog

#15) Armageddon Time

#13) Annette

#6) Blonde

#5) Nightmare Alley

#4) The French Dispatch

#3) The Tragedy of Macbeth

Ruimy's complete list with descriptions is linked here.

NEW VIEWS FOR NOMADLAND

We have a new trailer for Chloe Zhao's marvelous Nomadland (I've actually seen it twice).  Also a new poster for the film as well.

Here's the new poster:

And also, via YouTube, here's the new trailer for the film:

METACRITIC ON THIS YEAR'S FILMS

Here's a scan of Metacritic's current Top 25 films for 2020 thus far with my eye toward where films are that either played TFF #46 or where selected for inclusion in TFF's announced list of films for TFF #47.  By their position on the Metacritic chart:

#18) Beanpole (TFF #46)

#17) The Assistant (TFF #46)

#2) Nomadland (TFF #47)

#1) First Cow (TFF #46)

The complete list is linked here.

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