Thursday, January 27, 2022

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.




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.




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