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MTFB'S OSCAR TAKE: PICTURE, DIRECTION, INTERNATIONAL, ANIMATED AND DOCUMENTARY UPDATED

Here's the MTFB latest update on predictions for Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Director, International Feature, Animated Feature and Documentary Feature.  These categories were last predicted here on Nov. 11th.  As always TFF #48 films are indicate in Bold and the film's previous position is indicated to the right in parentheses.

BEST PICTURE

1) Belfast (1)

2) The Power of the Dog (2)

3) Licorice Pizza (6)

4) King Richard (3)

5) Dune (4)

6) Nightmare Alley (5)

7) West Side Story (7)

8) The Tragedy of Macbeth (9)

9) Spencer (8)

10) CODA (10)

Alternates: tick, tick...BOOM and C'mon C'mon

BEST DIRECTION

1) Belfast/Brannagh (1)

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

3) Dune/Villenueve (3)

4) Licorice Pizza/Anderson (4)

5) Nightmare Alley/Del Toro (5)

Alternates: Spencer/Larrain and West Side Story/Spielberg

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

1) The Worst Person in the World/Norway (1)

2) A Hero/Iran (2)

3) Flee/Denmark (3)

4) The Hand of God/Italy (4)

5) Titaine/France (5)

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

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

1) Flee (1)

2) Encanto (3)

3) The Mitchell's vs. The Machines (2)

4) Luca (4)

5) Belle (5)

Alternates: Raya and the Last Dragon and The Summit of the Gods

BEST DOCUMENTARY

1) Flee (1)

2) The Rescue (2)

3) Summer of Soul (3)

4) Ascension (4)

5) Procession (5)

Alternates: Who We Are and Attica

NEW TRAILER FOR THE HAND OF GOD

From YouTube:

INTERVIEWS, PROFILES AND PODCASTS 

BELFAST 

Variety

Screen Rant

Collider

The Hollywood Reporter

KING RICHARD

Deadline

Indiewire

Screen Rant

THE POWER OF THE DOG

The Hollywood Reporter

Deadline

THE ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN

Deadline

A HERO  

Deadline

JULIA

The Guardian

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

Awards Chatter/The Hollywood Reporter

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER HAS A LIST

The Hollywood Reporter's Tyler Coates has collected a list of 30 films that he suggests are in the running for a Best Picture nomination.  In alphabetical order, here are the TFF #48 films that Coates has on the list:

Belfast

The Card Counter

C'mon C'mon

Cyrano

Flee

The French Dispatch

The Hand of God

A Hero

King Richard

The Lost Daughter

The Power of the Dog

Red Rocket

Spencer

That's 13 of the 30 films on Coates' list.  That's amazing and is an indication of how stunning the Telluride curation was for TFF #48.

The complete Coates' list is linked here.

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