MTFB Oscar Take Updated: Best Picture and Direction / MTFB Oscar Predix: New Categories / Release Dates for TFF #48 Films / Profiles and Interviews: Branagh and Garbus / A Hero Has a Trailer

 MTFB OSCAR TAKE: UPDATED BEST PICTURE AND DIRECTOR

Here's the MTFB latest update on predictions for Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Director.  These categories were last predicted here on Oct. 18th.  As always TFF #48 films are indicate in Bold and the film's previous position is indicated to the right in parentheses.

1) Belfast (1)

2) The Power of the Dog (3)

3) King Richard (2)

4) Dune (5)

5) Nightmare Alley (7)

6) Licorice Pizza (4)

7) West Side Story (6)

8) Spencer (8)

9) The Tragedy of Macbeth (9)

10) CODA (Alt.)

Alternates: House of Gucci and Flee

BEST  DIRECTION

1) Kenneth Branagh/Belfast (1)

2) Jane Campion/The Power of the Dog (2)

3) Denis Villenueve/Dune (3)

4) Paul Thomas Anderson/Licorice Pizza (5)

5) Guillermo Del Toro/Nightmare Alley (4)

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

MTFB OSCAR PREDIX: NEW CATEGORIES: INTERNATIONAL, ANIMATED AND DOCUMENTARY FESTURES (TFF #48 films in Bold)

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:

1) The Worst Person in the World/Norway

2) A Hero/Iran

3) Flee/Denmark

4) The Hand of God/Italy

5) Titane/France

Alternates: Drive My Car/Japan and Compartment #6/Finland

BEST ANINATED FEATURE

1) Flee

2) The Mitchells vs. The Machines

3) Encanto

4) Luca

5) Belle

Alternates: Raya and the Last Dragon and Sing 2

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

1) Flee

2) The Rescue

3) Summer of Soul

4) Ascension

5) Procession

RELEASE DATES FOR TFF #48 FILMS

From IMDb:

2021:

Nov. 5 Spencer

Nov. 12 Belfast

Nov. 17 The Power of the Dog

Nov. 19 King Richard, C'mon C'mon

Dec. 3 Red Rocket, Flee

Dec. 10 Encounter

2022:

Jan. 7: A Hero

Release dates for other non-TFF 48 Oscar possibles:

2021:

Nov. 24 House of Gucci

Nov. 26 Licorice Pizza

Dec. 10 Being the Ricardos, West Side Story

Dec. 17: Nightmare Alley

Dec. 25 The Tragedy of Macbeth, A Journal for Jordan

PROFILES AND INTERVIEWS

Sir Kenneth Branagh- writer/director of Belfast with Brent A. Lang from Variety

Liz Garbus, director of Becoming Cousteau with Jazz Tangcay from Variety

A HERO HAS A TRAILER

Amazon Studios has released a trailer for Asghar Farhadi's International Oscar contender A Hero.  Here it is from YouTube:

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