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Monday, April 26, 2021

TFF Oscar Streak Continues / 2021 Oscar Rundown

 TFF OSCAR STREAK CONTINUES



The Telluride Film Festival didn't happen for the 2020-21 Oscar season and still managed to extend its streak of having scheduled and screened (at a drive-in) the eventual Best Picture Oscar winner.  11 of the last 13 Oscar winning Best Pictures screened as a part of the festival.  The only two exceptions have been The Hurt Locker for 2009 and Green Book for 2018.

Here's the run:

2008: Slumdog Millionaire
2010: The King's Speech
2011: The Artist
2012: Argo
2013: 12 Years a Slave
2014: Birdman
2015: Spotlight
2016: Moonlight
2017: The Shape of Water
2019: Parasite
2020: Nomadland


2021 OSCAR RUNDOWN



Here are the winners of the 2021 Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Nomadland. 
Best Direction: Chloe Zhao/Nomadland,
Best Actress: Frances McDormand/Nomadland
Best Actor: Anthony Hopkins/The Father.
Best Supporting Actress: Yuh-jung Youn/Minari.  
Best Supporting Actor: Daniel Kaluuya/Judas and the Black Messiah.
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Father.
Best Original Screenplay: Promising Young Woman.
Best International Feature: Another Round. 
Best Documentary Feature: My Octopus Teacher.
Best Animated Feature: Soul. 
Best Original Score: Soul. 
Best Original Song: Fight for You/Judas and the Black Messiah
Best Cinematography: Mank.
Best Editing: Sound of Metal.
Best Production Design: Mank. 
Best Costume Design: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. 
Best Makeup/Hair: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
Best Sound: Sound of Metal. 
Best Visual Effects: Tenet. 
Best Animated Short: If Anything Happens I Love You. 
Best Live Action Short: Two Distant Strangers.  
Best Documentary Short: Colette

Nomadland led the way with three wins- Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Actress-on a night when The Academy really did share the wealth.  Its wins along with the two for The Father- Best Actor and  Best Adapted Screenplay-gave TFF #47 a respectable total of five Oscars.

The Father' double win was part of a substantial list of two win films on the night.

The rundown of wins by film:

Nomadland- 3- Picture, Direction, Actress.
The Father- 2- Actor, Adapted Screenplay
Soul- 2- Animated Feature, Score
Judas and the Black Messiah- 2- Supporting Actor, Song
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom- 2- Costumes, Makeup/Hair
Sound of Metal- 2- Editing, Sound
Mank- 2- Production Design, Cinematography

Single feature film wins for: Minari, Promising Young Woman, Another Round, My Octopus Teacher and Tenet.

On a personal level:

I correctly predicted 16 of the 23 categories with an additional four statues going to films that I listed as Upset Specials. That's just shy of 70% which is under my average (79.6%) for the past several years.

My biggest surprise of the evening was McDormand winning Best Actress.  I really did not believe she's win again so soon after her Three Billboards win.

Now we gear up with some seriousness of purpose working under the assumption the Telluride happens in 19 weeks to suss out what its lineup looks will look like.

Back to it!


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