MTFB Oscar Take: Picture and Director / Changes to the Pages / Jenny Slate and The Boston Globe / Time's Look at Nuclear Family

 MTFB OSCAR(r) TAKE: PICTURE AND DIRECTOR

Here's an update for Academy Award predictions for Best Picture and a first take for Best Direction.  A film's past position is indicated in parentheses.  As always TFF #48 films are indicated in Bold.

BEST PICTURE

1) Belfast (2)

2) The Power of the Dog (1)

3) King Richard (4)

4) Licorice Pizza (5)

5) Dune (3)

6) West Side Story (6)

7) Nightmare Alley (7)

8) Macbeth (New)

9) Spencer (New)

10) Don't Look Up (8)

Alternates: House of Gucci and CODA

BEST DIRECTION

1) Kenneth Branagh/Belfast 

2) Jane Campion/The Power of the Dog

3) Denis Villenueve/Dune

4) Paul Thomas Anderson/Licorice Pizza

5) Guillermo del Toro/Nightmare Alley

Alternates: Reinaldo Marcus Green/King Richard and Pablo Larrain/Spencer

Current predicted nominations for TFF #48 films in the "above the line" categories:

Belfast (6): Picture, Direction, Supporting Actress (Balfe), Supporting Actress (Dench), Supporting Actor (Hinds), Original Screenplay.

The Power of the Dog (6): Picture, Direction, Actor (Cumberbatch), Supporting Actress (Dunst), Supporting Actor (Smit-McPhee), Adapted Screenplay.

King Richard (4): Picture, Actor (Smith), Supporting Actress (Ellis), Original Screenplay.  Alternate for Direction (Green)

Spencer (2): Picture, Actress (Stewart), Alternate for Direction (Larrain) and Original Screenplay

C'mon C'mon (2): Actor (Phoenix), Original Screenplay

The Lost Daughter: Alternate for Adapted Screenplay

Cyrano: Alternate for Actor (Dinklage)

CHANGES TO THE PAGES

As I mentioned last Thursday. I have, as of today, added a new page to the "Pages" section of MTFB that features my ongoing Oscar (r) predictions for this year.  I'll update that page each time I update any categories  throughout the season.  In addition to that addition I have updated "History of the Telluride Film Festival Part Two: 1996-Present" include 2020 and 2021.  I have also retired the Select History of the Fest page as it is redundant with the larger History sections.  Take a look!

JENNY SLATE AND THE BOSTON GLOBE

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The voice of and co-creator of Marcel the Shell, Jenny Slate, was recently interviewed by The Boston Globe as she was participating at the Globe Summit.  Naturally Slate's film, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, was a part of that conversation.

Here's the link to The Globe interview.

TIME'S LOOK AT NUCLEAR FAMILY

Floating under the threshold of getting enough votes in either MTFB's Professional or People's polls of TFF #48 films was Ry Russo-Young's Nuclear Family.   Thorough the Labor Day weekend, however, I persistently heard good things about the film while I was in line.

Time.com has profiled the film maker and her family in post from last week.

That post is linked here.

And, from YouTube, here is the official trailer:

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