OSCAR PREDIX #6: SCREENPLAYS AND SHORTS
I'm back predicting the winners of this year's Oscars with less than a week left until the awards are passed out. Today I am updating the Screenplay and Shorts categories. As always TFF #47 film are in Bold.
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1) Promising Young Woman
2) The Trial of the Chicago 7
3) Minari
4) Judas and the Black Messiah
5) Sound of Metal
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
1) Nomadland
2) The Father
3) Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
4) One Night in Miami
5) The White Tiger
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
1) If Anything Happens I Love You
2) Burrow
3) Genuis Loci
4) Opera
5) Yes-People
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
1) A Concerto Is a Conversation
2) A Love Song for Latasha
3) Colette
4) Do Not Split
5) Hunger Ward
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
1) Two Distant People
2) Feeling Through
3) The Present
4) The Letter Room
5) White Eye
I'll have another set of predictions on Thursday and then a special Sunday morning edition of MTFB with final predictions for this long, long Oscar season.
THE GURUS UPDATE
The newest Gurus of Gold is up at Movie City News. We were tasked this week with predicting Best Picture as well as picking three upsets that would make us happy...not that would necessarily actually win.
CANNES COMMMITS
Lots of outlets were reporting this week that Cannes International Film Festival Director Thierry Fremaux is adamantly claiming that the fest will take place July 6-17 and will be a live not virtual event.
Variety was the first source that I could find that was talking about the commitment to the date back on April 8th. The article also says the effort to schedule the world premiere of Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch for Cannes has been ongoing.
Subsequently, I have discovered further news stories that are bolder about the fest's plans. Rappler.com reporting that:
“We are sure that Cannes will take place in July,” declared Thierry Fremaux, director of Cannes Film Festival in our recent video conversation.
Thierry vowed that the world’s most prestigious film festival, which he has led since 2004, will go live, in-person from July 6 to 17 this year."
Fremaux is also quoted as having lined about The French Dispatch as well as Paul Verhoeven's Benedetta for the French fest:
“Regarding films, I, of course, won’t tell you any title except the films that we all know were already selected from last year, including by Wes Anderson (The French Dispatch) and Paul Verhoeven (Benedetta). They will be back in the official selection.”
Fremaux is also quoted as saying that he expects to announce the lineup in late May or early June.
Should Cannes actually take place in July, the fall film fests, including Telluride would largely be unaffected. For TFF that probably means that the sharing of what is an on average of eight or so films with Cannes could still be likely.
LATE BREAKING NEWS FROM CANNES...
Variety is reporting this morning that the 74th Cannes Film Festival will open with Leos Carax's Annette starring Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver. Variety reports the film will screen on July 7th and will play in competition.
Here's the trailer that dropped with the announcement from YouTube:
THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS COLLECT MORE HARDWARE
Fresh off their DGA for Best Direction of a Feature Documentary on April 10th, The Truffle Hunters directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw won the American Society of Cinematographers Award for Best Cinematography for a Documentary this past weekend.
The Truffle Hunters was a selection of TFF #47.
Mank won Best Cinematography for a Feature Film beating out Nomadland in a bit of a surprise.
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