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Thursday, March 18, 2021
New Gurus Predicting Oscar Winners / Concrete Cowboy Rides to Netflix / Talking Nomadland
NEW GURUS PREDICITNG OSCAR WINNERS
The latest Gurus of Gold went up at Movie City News on Tuesday after Oscar nominations were announced. We were tasked with predicting the likely winners in all of the feature film categories.
As of my Guru ballot on Monday afternoon I have Nomadland winning 4 Oscars on April 25th: Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay and Cinematography. As for its other two nominations, I am currently predicting Carey Mulligan will win Best Actress for Promising Young Woman over Frances McDormand and The Trial of the Chicago 7 winning the Oscar for film editing.
As to the other acting categories, I'm predicting Boseman for Actor, Kaluuya for Supporting Actor and Close for Supporting Actress, though I match up with the overall Gurus picks in all the categories I've mentioned so far except on the Close call. I'm pretty lonely there with the Gurus collectively picking Yuh-jung Youn from Minari. I'm not totally out in the cold with the Close prediction. Mark Johnson/Awards Daily and Nathaniel Rogers/The Film Experience have also chosen Close.
My other early predictions (and when applicable, where I diverge from the Guru collective):
Original Screenplay: Promising Young Woman
International Feature: Another round
Documentary Feature: Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (The Gurus have Time)
Production Design: Mank
Costumes: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Animated Feature: Soul
Makeup/Hair: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Score: Soul
Song: Speak Now/One Night in Miami
Sound: Sound of Metal
Visual Effects: Tenet
Biggest locks (having a perfect Gurus score):
Chloe Zhao/Director-Nomadland
Chadwick Boseman/Actor-Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Another Round-International Feature
Mank-Production Design
Soul-Best Score
Sound of Metal/Sound
Closest races:
Original Screenplay: Promising Young Woman and The Trial of the Chicago7 are close.
Cinematography: Nomadland and Mank look to duke it out.
Editing: Nomadland and The Trial of the Chicago 7 are tight.
Costumes: Ma Rainey, Emma and Mank are all close here.
Makeup/Hair: The battle is between Ma Rainey, Hillbilly Elegy and Mank.
Other semi-close races: Supporting Actress, Animated Feature and Documentary.
Netflix has acquired Ricky Staub's Concrete Cowboy starring Idris Elba and Caleb McLaughlin. The film was a selection of TFF #47. Netflix has set April 2nd as the release date for the film and has released both a poster (above) and a trailer (below) from YouTube:
TALKING NOMADLAND
Bloomberg recently posted an interview with the original author of Nomadland Jessica Bruder. That interview is linked here.
Meanwhile, Slashfilm linked a Chloe Zhao interview for the American Film Institute that's up on YouTube. Here that is:
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