Thursday, February 18, 2021

Oscar Update: Supporting and Screenplays / Writers Guild Nominations Announced / Touring Nomadland

 OSCAR UPDATE: SUPPORTING AND SCREENPLAYS




Here's my latest take on Oscar nomination predictions for the Supporting Acting and Screenplay categories.  My last predictions for the Supporting Acting categories was on Feb. 1st and for Screenplays, it was  on Feb. 4th.  The previous position for a performer of film is indicated in parentheses.  TFF films are in Bold.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS




1) Glenn Close/Hillbilly Elegy (6)
2) Youn Yuh-jung/Minari (3)
3) Olivia Colman/The Father (2)
4) Amanda Seyfried/Mank (1)
5) Maria Bakalova/Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (5)

6) Ellen Burstyn/Pieces of a Woman (4)
7) Helena Zengel/News of the World (10)
8) Jodie Foster/The Mauritanian (8)
9) Dominique Fishback/Judas and the Black Messiah (7)
10) Olivia Cooke/Sound of Metal (-)

Other Possible: Saoirse Ronan/Ammonite
Hot: Glenn Close, Helena Zengel, Olivia Cooke
Not: Amanda Seyfried, Dominique Fishback, Saoirse Ronan

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Daniel Kaluuya/Judas and the Black Messiah (1)
2) Sacha Baron Cohen/The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2)
3) Leslie Odom, Jr./One Night in Miami (3)
4) Chadwick Boseman/Da 5 Bloods (4)
5) Paul Raci/Sound of Metal (5)

6) Bill Murray/On the Rocks (6)
7) David Strathairn/Nomadland (7)
8) Jared Leto/The Little Things (-)
9) Mark Rylance/The Trial of the Chicago 7 (8)
10) Glynn Turman/Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (9)

Other Possibles: Stanley Tucci/Supernova, Eddie Redmayne/The Trial of the Chicago 7
Hot: Jared Leto
Not: Stanley Tucci

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY




1) Nomadland (1)
2) One Night in Miami (2)
3) Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (3)
4) The Father (4)
5) First Cow (5)

6) News of the World (6)
7) I'm Thinking of Ending Things (7)
8) Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (8)
9) Emma (9)
10) Pieces of a Woman (10)

Other Possibles: The White Tiger, The Mauritanian
No Hots and Nots...a really stable category at the moment.

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1) The Trial of the Chicago 7 (1)
2) Promising Young Woman (2)
3) Minari (3)
4) Mank (4)
5) Sound of Metal (8)

6) Da 5 Bloods (5)
7) Never Rarely Sometimes Always (7)
8) Judas and the Black Messiah (9)
9) Soul (6)
10) Palm Springs (10)

Other Possibles: Malcolm and Marie, On the Rocks
Hot: Sound of Metal
Not: Soul


WRITERS GUILD NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED




The Writers Guild of America announced their nominees for scripting excellence in film in three categories on Tuesday.  As always, there are some omissions that are considered possible/probable nominees that were ineligible for consideration (see note below).  The only TFF film that made the list was All In: The Fight for Democracy in the Documentary script category.

Nominees are as follows;

Adapted Screenplay:

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (#8 in my predictions above)
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (#3)
News of the World (#6)
One Night in Miami (#2)
The White Tiger (I've listed as an "Other Possible")

Both The Father, Pieces of a Woman and Nomadland were ineligible under WGA guidelines.

Original Screenplay:

Judas and The Black Messiah (#8)
Palm Springs  (#10)
Promising Young Woman (#2)
Sound of Metal (#5)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (#1)

Ineligible Original Screenplays included: Mank and Minari.


Documentary Screenplays:

All In: The Fight for Democracy
The Dissident
Herb Alpert Is...
Red Penguins
Totally Under Control




TOURING NOMADLAND 




Lots of new stuff  about Nomaldand as it nears its release date tomorrow.  

First, a new profile from Vulture on director/writer and more Chloe Zhao.  That's linked here.

SlashFilm also looks at Zhao and reports that she has become the most awarded single film maker of any award season (and there's still a ways to go!).  That analysis is linked here.

And Time digs in on the real people and stories as well as the book by Jessica Bruder that formed the basis for the film.  That article can be accessed here.


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