MTFB Oscar Take: Best Picture and More Updated / Interviews and Profiles: Gyllenhaal and Rasmussen

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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