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 MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SUPPORTING ACTORS AND MORE

Oscar nominations are coming soon.  Nominations will be announced in 23 categories on Tuesday Feb. 8th.  MTFB will have its final predictions here on Monday Feb. 7th.  I am also planning a special added post on Feb. 8th after the nominations have been announced.

Here's your update on the Supporting Acting races as well as Score, Song and Costumes.  These predictions were last updated on Jan. 17th.  TFF #48 performances/films are indicated in Bold and their previous position in my predictions are indicated to the right in parentheses.

Check out my current predictions for all 20 feature film categories on MTFB's Oscar Update Page.  

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Ariana DeBose/West Side Story (1)

2) Kirsten Dunst/The Power of the Dog (3)

3) Caitirona Balfe/Belfast (2)

4) Aunjunue Ellis/King Richard (4)

5) Ruth Negga/Passing (5)

Alternates: Cate Blanchett/Nightmare Alley and Anne Dowd/ Mass

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Kodi Smit-McPhee/The Power of the Dog (1)

2) Troy Kotsur/CODA (2)

3) Bradley Cooper/Licorice Pizza (4)

4) Ciaran Hinds/Belfast (3)

5) Jared Leto/House of Gucci (5)

Alternates: Jamie Dornan/Belfast and Ben Affleck/The Tender Bar

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

1) Dune (1)

2) The Power of the Dog (2)

3) The French Dispatch (3)

4) Don't Look Up (4)

5) Encanto (Alt.)

Alternates: Parallel Mothers and Spencer

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

1) No Time to Die/No Time to Die (1)

2) Be Alive/King Richard (2)

3) Dos Oruguitas/Encanto (3)

4) Just Look Up/Don't Look Up (5)

5) Down to Joy/Belfast (4)

Alternates: Guns Go Bang/The Harder They Fall and Here I Am/Respect

BEST COSTUMES

1) Cruella (1)

2) Dune (2)

3) West Side Story (3)

4) Nightmare Alley (5)

5) House of Gucci (4)

Alternates: Cyrano and Spencer

CURRENT PREDICTED OSCAR TOTALS

Over on MTFB's Oscar Take page, here's the current breakdown of Oscar nomination predictions I have for TFF #48 films as well as totals for the 10 films I am currently predicting will be Best Picture nominees.

Belfast Total-10 and 1 Alternate: Picture, Direction (Branagh), Supporting Actress (Balfe), Supporting Actor (Hinds), Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Sound, Production Design and Song.  Alternate: Supporting Actor (Dornan).

The Power of the Dog- Total 9 and 1 Alternate. Picture, Direction (Campion) , Actor (Cumberbatch), Supporting Actress (Dunst), Supporting Actor (Smit-McPhee), Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Score. Alternate:  Sound

King Richard Total-5: Picture, Actor (Smith), Supporting Actress (Ellis), Original Screenplay and Song.  

Flee Total- 3: International Feature, Animated Feature, Documentary Feature

The Lost Daughter Total-2 and 1 Alternate: Actress (Colman), Adapted Screenplay.  Alternate: Best Direction (Gyllenhaal) 

The French Dispatch Total-2: Production Design and Score. 

Spencer Total- 1 and 3 Alternates- Actress (Stewart).  Alternates: Original Score, Costumes and Cinematography

Cyrano Total- 1 and 1 Alternate: Actor (Dinklage).  Alternate: Costumes

A Hero Total- 1 and 1 Alternate: International Feature.  Alternate: Original Screenplay

The Hand of God Total- 1: International Feature

The Rescue Total-1: Documentary Feature

Procession Total-1: Documentary Feature

C'mon C'mon Total- 1 Alternate: Original Screenplay

The Velvet Underground Total -1 Alternate: Documentary Feature

As of this assessment, TFF #48 films are predicted to net 37 nominations with another 10 Alternates in play. An incredible14 TFF #48 films could have at least one Oscar nomination on Feb. 8th.

My other Best Picture predictions and what I expect that they're nominations will be:

Dune-10 nominations: Best Picture, Direction (Villenueve), Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Score, Costumes, Visual Effects, Sound and Makeup/Hair.  Also possible: Adapted Screenplay

West Side Story- 9 nominations: Best Picture, Direction (Spielberg), Supporting Actress (DeBose), Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Costumes and Sound.  Also possible: Makeup/Hair

Don't Look Up- 5 nominations: Best Picture, Original Screenplay, Editing, Score, Song.  Also possible Actor (DiCaprio) 

Being the Ricardos- 3 nominations: Best Picture, Actress (Kidman) and Original Screenplay.  Also possible: Actor (Bardem)

CODA- 3 nominations: Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Kotsur) and Adapted Screenplay

tick, tick...BOOM- 2 nominations: Best Picture, Actor (Garfield).  Also possible: Sound

Licorice Pizza- 4 nominations: Best Picture, Direction (Anderson), Supporting Actor (Cooper), Original Screenplay.  Also possible: Actress (Haim) and Editing.

And right now I have House of Gucci the most nominated without getting a Best Picture nomination with 4: Best Actress (Gaga), Supporting Actor (Leto), Costumes and Makeup/Hair.

Last note here: I feel like Nightmare Alley is gaining ground.  I currently have it predicted for 2 nominations (Production Design and Costumes) with a shot at Supporting Actress (Blanchett) and Cinematography.  Since its Writers Guild nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay last week, I'm beginning to think that should it land an Oscar nomination in that category and if Blanchett lands in the five Supporting Actress nominees, Nightmare Alley might sneak into Best Picture and supplant Being the Ricardos or tick, tick...BOOM or even Don't Look Up.

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

Jamie Dornan of Belfast from The Belfast Telegraph

The cast and crew of The Power of the Dog with Variety

Kristen Stewart and Pablo Larrain of Spencer from Variety

The cast and crew of Cyrano from Variety

Director Robert Greene of Procession from The Chicago Daily Herald

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MTFB Oscar Update: Lead Acting and More / Lots of News Today /ASC Names Its Nominees / Online Film Critics Society Loves the Dog / Interviews and Profiles

 MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: LEAD ACTING AND MORE

Here's an update for my predictions of  the lead acting categories, cinematography, editing and production design for the 94th Academy Awards.  As always, TFF #48 films/performers are in Bold. The previous position for these predictions is indicated to the right in parentheses.  These categories were last predicted on Jan. 13th.

BEST ACTRESS

1) Nicole Kidman/Being the Ricardos (2)

2) Olivia Colman/The Lost Daughter (3)

3) Lady Gaga/House of Gucci (5)

4) Jessica Chastain/The Eyes of Tammy Faye (4)

5) Kristen Stewart/Spencer (1)

Alternates: Jennifer Hudson/Respect and Alana Haim/Licorice Pizza

BEST ACTOR

1) Will Smith/King Richard (1)

2) Benedict Cumberbatch/The Power of the Dog (2)

3) Andrew Garfield/tick, tick...BOOM (3)

4) Denzel Washington/The Tragedy of Macbeth (4)

5) Peter Dinklage/Cyrano (5)

Alternates: Javier Bardem/Being the Ricardos and Leonardo DiCaprio/Don't Look Up

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

1) Dune (1)

2) The Power of the Dog (2)

3) The Tragedy of Macbeth (4)

4) Belfast (5)

5) West Side Story (3)

Alternates: Nightmare Alley and Spencer

BEST EDITING

1) Dune (1)

2) Belfast (2)

3) West Side Story (3)

4) The Power of the Dog (4)

5) Don't Look Up (Alt.)

Alternates: Licorice Pizza and No Time to Die

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

1) Dune (1)

2) Nightmare Alley (2)

3) West Side Story (3)

4) Belfast (4)

5) The French Dispatch (5)

Alternates: The Tragedy of Macbeth and Cruella

  

LOTS OF GUILD NEWS TODAY

Really good day for Belfast, The Power of the dog and King Richard

TFF #48 Guild nominees:

Producers Guild: Belfast, King Richard, The Power of the Dog

Directors Guild: Kenneth Branagh/Belfast, Jane Campion/The Power of the Dog

Writers Guild: King Richard for Original Screenplay, The French Dispatch for Original Screenplay

Editors Guild: Belfast, King Richard, The Power of the Dog

Actors Guild (from two weeks ago): Cast nominees: Belfast and King Richard.  The Power the Dog had three individual acting nominees.

ASC NAMES ITS NOMINEES

The American Society of Cinematographers announced its nominees for the best work of 2021 on Tuesday.  In the feature film category two TFF #48 films made the grade.  Belfast and The Power of the Dog were among the five films named.  Others included Nightmare Alley, Dune and The Tragedy of Macbeth.  A number of Oscarologists reported that the ASC and Oscar normally match 4 for 5 each year.  This year's odd film out could have been West Side Story.

The cinematographers' guild will be matched today with guild nominations from the writers, the directors and the producers.  What that will tell us about possible Oscar nominations could be very interesting and enlightening.

Deadline has a listing of  all categories that the ASC named Tuesday linked here.

ONLINE FILM CRITICS SOCIETY LOVES THE DOG

Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog won several major categories from OFCS which announced their winners on Monday.  The film won:

Best Picture, Direction (Campion), Actor (Cumberbatch), Supporting Actress (Dunst), Supporting Actor (Smit-McPhee), Adapted Screenplay, Editing and Cinematography and Original Score.

Other TFF #48 films that received recognition included The Lost Daughter which saw Olivia Colman named Best Lead Actress and Maggie Gyllenhaal was named for Best Debut Feature , The French Dispatch won Best Production Design,  Petite Maman was named one of ten Best Non-U.S. Features.

The complete list of winners and nominees are here from Next Best Picture.

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES: 

The Power of the Dog from Variety.

Belfast from Deadline.

Jamie Dornan of Belfast from Deadline.

Caitriona Balfe of Belfast from YouTube.

Maggie Gyllenhaal on The Lost Daughter from Deadline.

Asghar Farhadi on A Hero from Indiewire.

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MTFB OSCAR TAKE: BEST PICTURE AND MORE 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 Jan. 10th.  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) West Side Story (3)

4) King Richard (6)

5) Dune (4)

6) CODA (7)

7) Licorice Pizza (5)

8) Don't Look Up (8)

9) tick, tick...BOOM (9)

10) Being the Ricardos (Alt.)

Alternates: House of Gucci and The Tragedy of Macbeth

Comment:  The top six films look solid.  Licorice Pizza and Don't Look Up are probable and then after those it's a free for all.  As you can see, I currently have tick, tick...BOOM and Being the Ricardos in to get nominated and House of Gucci and The Tragedy of Macbeth as alternates but you could also see Drive My Car and Nightmare Alley sneak in and don't discount the outside shots of the Lost Daughter, No Time to Die or Spiderman: No Way Home.

BEST DIRECTION

1) Jane Campion/The Power of the Dog  (1)

2) Kenneth Branagh/Belfast (2)

3) Denis Villenueve/Dune (3)

4) Steven Spielberg/West Side Story (4)

5) Paul Thomas Anderson/Licorice Pizza (5)

Alternates: Ryusuke Hamaguchi/Drive My Car and Maggie Gyllenhaal/The Lost Daughter

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

1) Drive My Car/Japan (1)

2) The Worst Person in the World/Norway (2)

3) The Hand of God/Italy (5)

4) A Hero/Iran (3)

5) Flee/Denmark (4)

Alternates: Compartment #6/Finland and I'm Your Man/Germany

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

1) Encanto (1)

2) The Mitchells vs. the Machines (3)

3) Flee (2)

4) Luca (4)

5) Raya and the Last Dragon (5)

Alternates: Belle and Sing 2

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

1) Flee (2)

2) The Rescue (1)

3) Summer of Soul (3)

4) Ascension (5)

5) Procession (Alt.)

Alternates: The First Wave and The Velvet Underground 

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

Flee director Jonas Poher Rasmussen willbe live with Variety's Screening Room with Peter DeBruge tomorrow.  Here's where you can register for that Q+A.

Writer and Director Maggie Gyllenhaal talks The Lost Daughter for Indiewire.

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MTFB Oscar Update: Screenplays and More / Interviews and Profiles Including Kirsten Dunst

 MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SCREENPLAYS AND MORE

Here are the latest nomination predictions for these five categories.  These were last predicted on Jan. 6th.  TFF #48 films are indicated in Bold.  The film's previous ranking is indicated to the right in parentheses.

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1) Belfast (1)

2) Licorice Pizza (2)

3) Don't Look Up (3)

4) King Richard (4)

5) Being the Ricardos (5)

Alternates: C'mon C'mon and A Hero

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1) The Power of the Dog (10

2) The Lost Daughter (2)

3) CODA (4)

4) West Side Story (3)

5) Drive My Car (5)

Alternates: Dune and The Tragedy of Macbeth

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

1) Dune (1) 

2) Spiderman: No Way Home (2)

3) No Time to Die (4)

4) The Matrix Resurrections (3)

5) Shangchi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Alt.)

Alternates: Godzilla vs. King and Free Guy

BEST SOUND

1) Dune (1)

2) West Side Story (2)

3) No Time to Die (3)

4) Belfast (5)

5) Spiderman: No Way Home (4)

Alternates: tick, tick...BOOM and The Power of the Dog

BEST MAKEUP/HAIR

1) Dune (1)

2) Cruella (2)

3) House of Gucci (3)

4) The Eyes of Tammy Faye (4)

5) Coming 2 America (New)

Alternates: West Side Story and The Suicide Squad

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

For Cyrano:

From Variety 

From Gold Derby

For Flee

From Variety

From Awards Daily

For The Power of the Dog

Kirsten Dunst on The Power of the Dog

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MTFB OSCAR TAKE: SUPPORTING ACTORS AND MORE

Here's your update on the Supporting Acting races as well as Score, Song and Costumes.  These predictions were last updated on Jan. 3rd.  TFF #48 performances/films are indicated in Bold and their previous position in my predictions are indicated to the right in parentheses.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Ariana DeBose/West side Story (1)

2) Caitriona Balfe/Belfast (2)

3) Kirsten Dunst/The Power of the Dog (4)

4) Aujunue Ellis/King Richard (3)

5) Ruth Negga/Passing (5)

Alternates: Anne Dowd/Mass, Cate Blanchett/Nightmare Alley and Rita Moreno/West Side Story

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Kodi Smit-McPhee/The Power of the Dog (1)

2) Troy Kotsur/CODA (3)

3) Ciaran Hinds/Belfast (2)

4) Bradley Cooper/Licorice Pizza (Alt.)

5) Jared Leto/House of Gucci

Alternates: Jamie Dornan/Belfast and Ben Affleck/The Tender Bar

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

1) Dune (1)

2) The Power of the Dog (2)

3)The French Dispatch (4)

4) Don't Look Up (3)

5) Parallel Mothers (Alt.)

Alternates: Spencer and Encanto

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

1) No Time to Die/No Time to Die (2)

2) Be Alive/King Richard (1)

3) Dos Oruguitas/Encanto (4)

4) Down to Joy/Belfast (Alt.)

5) Just Look Up/Don't Look Up (3)

Alternates: Guns Go Bang/The Harder They Fall and Here I Am/Respect

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

1) Cruella (1)

2) Dune (2)

3) West Side Story (3)

4) House of Gucci (4)

5) Nightmare Alley (Alt.)

Alternates: Spencer and The French Dispatch

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

Actor Peter Dinklage on Cyrano from The Playlist

Dinklage and actress Haley Bennett plus more from Cyrano from Variety

Writer/Director Asghar Farhadi on A Hero from The Hollywood Reporter

Writer /Director Kenneth Branagh plus actors: Jude Hill, Caitriona Balfe, Jamie Dornan and Ciaran Hinds 

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MTFB Oscar Take: Lead Acting and More Updated / SAG Nominations and TFF #48 / BAFTA Longlist and TFF #48

MTFB OSCAR TAKE: LEAD ACTORS AND MORE UPDATED

Here's an update for my predictions of  the lead acting categories, cinematography, editing and production design for the 94th Academy Awards.  As always, TFF #48 films/performers are in Bold. The previous position for these predictions is indicated to the right in parentheses.  These categories were last predicted on Dec. 30th.

BEST ACTRESS

1) Kristen Stewart/Spencer (1)

2) Nicole Kidman/Being the Ricardos (2)

3) Olivia Colman/The Lost Daughter (4)

4) Jessica Chastain/The Eyes of Tammy Faye (3)

5) Lady Gaga/House of Gucci (5)

Alternates: Alana Haim/Licorice Pizza and Rachel Zegler/West Side Story

BEST ACTOR

1) Will Smith/King Richard (1)

2) Benedict Cumberbatch/The Power of the Dog (2)

3) Andrew Garfield/tick, tick...BOOM (3)

4)Denzel Washington/The Tragedy of Macbeth (4)

5) Peter Dinklage/Cyrano (5)

Alternates: Leonardo DiCaprio/Don't Look Up and Nicolas Cage/Pig

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

1) Dune (1)

2) The Power of the Dog (2)

3) West Side Story (3)

4) The Tragedy of Macbeth (5)

5) Belfast (4)

Alternates: Nightmare Alley and Spencer

BEST EDITING

1) Dune (1)

2) Belfast (2)

3) West Side Story (4)

4) The Power of the Dog (3)

5) Licorice Pizza (5)

Alternates: Don't look Up and King Richard

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

1) Dune (1)

2) Nightmare Alley (2)

3) West Side Story (3)

4) Belfast (5)

5) The French Dispatch (4)

Alternates: The Tragedy of Macbeth and Cyrano

SCREEN ACTORS GUILD NOMINATIONS AND TFF #48

The Screen Actors Guild announced nominees for their prizes yesterday.  TFF #48 films fared as follows:

Belfast: Best Cast and Supporting Actress Caitriona Balfe

King Richard: Best Cast and Lead Actor Will Smith

The Power of the Dog: Best Lead Actor Benedict Cumberbatch, Supporting Actress Kirsten Dunst and Supporting Actor Kodi Smit-McPhee

The Lost Daughter: Lead Actress Olivia Colman

Surprises:

No Best Cast nomination for The Power of the Dog despite a leading three nominations in the individual acting categories.

No Kristen Stewart Best Actress nomination for Spencer

Strong support for House of Gucci with a Best Cast nomination and individual nods for Lady Gaga and Jared Leto.

Don't Look Up gets a Best Cast nomination but not a single individual nomination.

West Side Story getting a single individual nomination for Ariana De Bose and no Best Cast nomination.

Here's the link to the entire list of SAG-Aftra nominees.

BAFTA LONG LIST AND TFF #48

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced their long lists for each competitive film category yesterday.  The longlists establish what films are still alive for actual BAFTA nominations.  Here's how TFF #48 films fared.  Total 

Belfast (14): Best Film, Best British Film, Direction, Original Screenplay, Supporting Actress (Balfe), Supporting Actress (Dench), Supporting Actor (Hinds), Supporting Actor (Dornan), Casting, Cinematography, Costumes, Editing, Production Design and Sound.

The Power of the Dog (14): Best Film, Direction, Adapted Screenplay, Actor (Cumberbatch), Supporting Actress (Dunst), Supporting Actor (Smit-McPhee), Supporting Actor (Plemons), Costumes, Cinematography, Costumes, Editing, Score, Production Design and Sound.

The French Dispatch (11): Best Film, Original Screenplay, Supporting Actor (Del Toro), Cinematography, Costumes, Editing, Makeup/Hair, Score, Production Design, Visual Effects and Sound.

The Lost Daughter (8): Best Film, Direction, Adapted Screenplay, Actress (Colman), Supporting Actress (Buckley), Costumes, Editing  and Score.

King Richard (7): Best Film, Direction, Original Screenplay, Actor (Smith), Supporting Actress (Ellis), Casting and Score.

Cyrano (7): Outstanding British Film, Adapted Screenplay, Actor (Dinklage), Cinematography, Costumes, Makeup/Hair and Production Design.

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (5): Outstanding British Film, Costumes, Makeup/Hair, Score and Production Design

The Hand of God (5): Best Non-English Language Film, Direction, Original Screenplay, Casting and Editing.

Spencer (4); Outstanding British Film, Actress (Stewart), Costumes and Score.

C'mon C'mon (4): Original Screenplay, Actor (Phoenix), Supporting Actor (Norman) and Cinematography

Petite Maman (3); Best Non-English Language Film, Direction and Original Screenplay.

Flee (3): Best Non-English Language Film, Animated Feature and Documentary Feature.

Single mentions for:

The Card Counter: Original Screenplay

The Duke: Original Screenplay

A Hero: Best Non-English Language Film

Encounter: Best Actor (Ahmed)

Becoming Cousteau: Best Documentary Feature

Cow: Best Documentary Feature

The Real Charlie Chaplin: Best Documentary Feature

The Rescue: Best Documentary Feature

The Velvet Underground: Best Documentary Feature

TFF #47 films on the longlist were

After Love (6): Outstanding British Film, Outstanding Debut, Direction, Original Screenplay, Actress (Scanlan) and Casting.

Also a single mention for First Cow for Direction.

(***The Duke was also listed as a TFF #47 selection)

All told 23 feature films from the last two SHOWS are still in the hunt for BAFTA recognition.  BBAFTA will announce the nominees on February 3rd.

The complete list of the BAFTA longlist is linked here.

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PETER BOGDANOVICH 1939-2022

Peter Bogdanovich died on Thursday.  Over the past 20+ years he was a frequent presence at The SHOW beginning with his choice to Guest Direct the festival in 1998.  That year he programmed: Orson Welles Touch of Evil.  Bogdanovich's own Directed by John Ford was also featured at the 25th TFF.

Bogdanovich returned to T-ride a number of times thereafter including 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2018.  He was part of my first Telluride in 2006 as he was back at the fest with Directed by John Ford again.

His film legacy included: The Last Picture Show, What's Up Doc? Paper Moon, Saint Jack and Mask among others.  He was twice Oscar nominated for The Last Picture Show as Best Director and co-writer with Larry McMurtry.

On a different note, although never an attendee (at least to my knowledge) of the Telluride Film Festival, I have to also note the passing of Sidney Poitier.  Truly a giant in the world of film.

NSFC AND THE GOLDEN GLOBES

The National Society of Film Critics and The Golden Globes announced their winners for films from 2021 over the weekend.

THE NSFC 

The NSFC announces winners and runners-up through third place (and the vote totals for each).  Here are the TFF #48 films/performers that were named winners or runners-up.

Best Picture: #2 Petite Maman #3 The Power of the Dog (Drive My Car was named Best Picture.

Best Direction: #2 Jane Campion/The Power of the Dog, #3 Celine Sciamma/Petite Maman

Best Nonfiction Film: #1 Flee, #2 Procession, #3 The Velvet Underground

Best Cinematography #2 The Power of the Dog

Best Supporting Actress: #1 Jesse Buckley/The Lost Daughter

Best Actor: #2 Benedict Cumberbatch/The Power of the Dog, #3 Simon Rex/Red Rocket

TFF regulars Bertrand Tavernier and Peter Bogdanovich both received notice being named winners of the NSFC Film Heritage Award.

The complete list of winners and runners-up is linked here from The NSFC.

THE GOLDEN GLOBES WINNERS

A modified version of the Golden Globes was held last night as The Hollywood Foreign Press Association continues to try to rehabilitate itself into the awards power that it has been over the last several years.  Absent a television presentation, the HFPA "announced" their awards via social media.  TFF #48 winners in Bold.

Best Picture/Drama: The Power of the Dog

Best Picture/Musical or Comedy: West Side Story

Best Direction: Jane Campion/The Power of the Dog

Best Actress/Drama: Nicole Kidman/Being the Ricardos

Best Actor/Drama: Will Smith/King Richard

Best Actress/Musical or Comedy: Rachel Zegler/West Side Story

Best Actor/Musical or Comedy: Andrew Garfield/tick, tick...BOOM

Best Supporting Actress: Ariana DeBose/West Side Story

Best Supporting Actor: Kodi Smit-McPhee/The Power of the Dog 

Best Screenplay: Kenneth Branagh/Belfast

Best Non-English Language Film: Drive My Car

Best Animated Film: Encanto

Best Score: Dune

Best Song: No Time to Die/No Time to Die

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: BEST PICTURE, DIRECTION AND MORE

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 Dec. 27th.  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) West Side Story (3)

4) Dune (4)

5) Licorice Pizza (5)

6) King Richard (6)

7) CODA (7)

8) Don't Look Up (8)

9) tick, tick...BOOM (9)

10) The Tragedy of Macbeth (Alt.)

Alternates: Being the Ricardos and The Lost Daughter

BEST DIRECTION

1) Jane Campion/The Power of the Dog

2) Kenneth Branagh/Belfast

3) Denis Villenueve/Dune

4) Steven Spielberg/West Side Story

5) Paul Thomas Anderson/Licorice Pizza

Alternates: Ryusuke Hamaguchi/Drive My Car and Maggie Gyllenhaal/The Lost Daughter

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

1) Drive My Car/Japan (1)

2) The Worst Person in the World/Norway (3)

3) A Hero/Iran (2)

4) Flee/Denmark (4)

5) The Hand of God/Italy (5)

Alternates: Compartment #6/Finland  and I'm Your Man/Germany

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

1) Encanto (1)

2) Flee (2)

3) The Mitchells vs. The Machines (3)

4) Luca (4)

5) Raya and the Last Dragon (5)

Alternates: Belle and Sing 2

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

1) The Rescue (2)

2) Flee (1)

3) Summer of Soul (3)

4) Attica (4) 

5) Ascension (Alt.)

Alternates: Procession and Faya Dayi

THE FILM STAGE'S 100 MOST ANTICIPATED

The Film Stage posted its list of 100 films for 2022 (maybe).  As you might expect, I have culled it for TFF #49 possibilities.  Here they be:

100) Babylon

94) Peter Von Kant

89) Red, White and Water

83) All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

81) The Wonder

72) Monica

68) The Son

66) Maestro

63) The Holdover

51) Bones and All

48) Poor Things

45) R.M.N.

43) White Noise

28) The Killer

26) The End

24) Asteroid City

21) The Zone of Interest

20) Broker

15) The Master Gardener

12) One Fine Morning

11) Blonde

10) Women Talking

8) Tar

3) Showing Up

1) Killers of the Flower Moon

The complete list of 100 films plus some honorable mentions is linked here.

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

Actress Kirsten Dunst on The Power of the Dog from Awards Daily  and also from Awards Watch.

Writer/Director Asghar Farhadi on A Hero from Deadline.com

Writer/Director Kenneth Branagh on Belfast fromVulture

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MTFB Oscar Update: Screenplays and More / Interviews and Profiles for Cyrano, The Hand of God and King Richard

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SCREENPLAYS AND MORE

Here are the latest nomination predictions for these five categories.  These were last predicted on Dec. 23rd.  TFF #48 films are indicated in Bold.  The film's previous ranking is indicated to the right in parentheses.

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1) Belfast (2)

2) Licorice Pizza (1)

3) Don't Look Up (4)

4) King Richard (5)

5) Being the Ricardos (3)

Alternates: C'mon C'mon and A Hero

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1) The Power of the Dog (1)

2) The Lost Daughter (2)

3) West Side Story (4)

4) CODA (3)

5) Drive My Car (New)

Alternates: Dune and Passing

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

1) Dune (1)

2) Spiderman: No Way Home (30

3) The Matrix Resurrections (2)

4) No Time to Die (New)

5) Godzilla vs. Kong (4)

Alternates: Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Free Guy

BEST SOUND

1) Dune (1)

2) West Side Story (2)

3) No Time to Die (3)

4) Spiderman: No Way Home (New)

5) Belfast (4)

Alternates: tick, tick...BOOM and The Power of the Dog

BEST MAKEUP/HAIR

1) Dune (1)

2) Cruella (4)

3) House of Gucci (2)

4) The Eyes of Tammy Faye (3)

5) Nightmare Alley (5)

Alternates: The Suicide Squad and West Side Story

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

Director Joe Wright and Actor Peter Dinklage for Cyrano from Gold Derby

Joe Wright on Cyrano from Indiewire

Behind the Scenes of Cyrano from Playbill.com

Writer-Director Paolo Sorrentino on The Hand of God from Variety

Actor Jon Bernthal for King Richard from The Desert Sun

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MTFB Oscar Update: Supporting Acting and More / Interviews and Profiles

 MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SUPPORTING ACTING, SCORE, SONG AND COSTUMES

Here's your update on the Supporting Acting races as well as Score, Song and Costumes.  These predictions were last updated on Dec. 20th.  TFF #48 performances/films are indicated in Bold and their previous position in my predictions are indicated to the right in parentheses.

BEST SUPPORTING SCTRESS

1) Ariana DeBose/West Side Story (2)

2) Caitriona Balfe/Belfast (1)

3) Aujunue Ellis/King Richard (4)

4) Kirsten Dunst/The Power of the Dog (3)

5) Ruth Negga/Passing (5)

Alternates: Rita Moreno/West Side Story and Anne Dowd/Mass

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Kodi Smit-McPhee/The Power of the Dog (2)

2) Ciaran Hinds/Belfast (1)

3) Tony Kotsur/CODA (3)

4) Jamie Dornan/Belfast (4)

5) Jared LKodieto/House of Gucci (5)

Alternates: Bradley Cooper/Licorice Pizza and Ben Affleck/The Tender Bar

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

1) Dune (1)

2) The Power of the Dog (2)

3) Don't Look Up (3)

4) The French Dispatch (5)

5) Spencer (4)

Alternates: Parallel Mothers and Encanto

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

1) Be Alive/King Richard (1)

2) No Time to Die/No Time to Die (2)

3) Just Look Up/Don't Look Up (4)

4) Dos Oruguitas/Encanto (5)

5) Guns Go Bang/The Harder They Fall (New)

Alternates: Down to Joy/Belfast and So May We Start/Annette

BEST COSTUMES

1) Cruella (2)

2) Dune (1)

3) West Side Story (3)

4) House of Gucci (New)

5) Spencer (Alt.)

Alternates: The French Dispatch and Nightmare Alley

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

Writer/Director Asghar Farhadi on A Hero from The National Board of Review

Cinematographer Robert Yeoman/The French Dispatch from Next Best Picture

Film Editor Una Ni Dhonghaile/Belfast from Gold Derby

The Crew from Procession from Indiewire

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