MTFB Oscar Update: Screenplays and More / BAFTA Nominations Announced

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SCREENPLAYS AND MORE

Here are the latest nomination predictions for these five categories.  These were last predicted on Jan. 20th.  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: Parallel Mothers and The French Dispatch

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 (5)

Alternates: Dune and The Tragedy of Macbeth

VISUAL EFFECTS

1) Dune (1)

2) Spiderman: No Way Home (2)

3) The Matrix Resurrections (4)

4) No Time to Die (3)

5) Shang Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings (5)

Alternates: Godzilla vs. King Kong and Free Guy

SOUND

1) Dune (1)

2) West Side Story (2)

3) No Time to Die (3)

4) Spiderman: No Way Home (5)

5) The Power of the Dog (Alt.)

Alternates: The Matrix Resurrections and Belfast

MAKEUP/HAIR

1) Dune (1)

2) Cruella (2)

3) House of Gucci (3)

4) The Eyes of Tammy Faye (4)

5) Coming 2 America (5) 

Alternates: No Time to Die and West Side Story

My final nomination predictions for all categories will be up Monday and I will have a special post on Tuesday after the Oscar nominations are announced.

BAFTA NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED

The British Association of Film and Television Arts announced their nominees today.  It's the last major "precursor" prior to Tuesday morning's Oscar announcement.  An astonishing 13 films from TFF #48 and one form TFF #47 were nominated for at least one BAFTA award this morning.  The Power of the Dog had the second most nominations overall with eight (Dune led all films with 11) and was the most nominated Telluride film.  Here's the rundown of what/who was nominated that played at The SHOW:

The Power of the Dog-8- Best Film, Direction (Campion), Actor (Cumberbatch), Supporting Actor (Smit-McPhee), Supporting Actor (Plemons), Adapted Screenplay, Score and Cinematography.

Belfast-6- Best Film, Best British Film, Supporting Actress (Balfe), Supporting Actor (Hinds), Original Screenplay, Editing.

Cyrano-4- Best British Film, Production Design, Costumes, Makeup/Hair

King Richard-4- Actor (Smith), Supporting Actress (Ellis), Original Screenplay and Casting.

The French Dispatch-3- Score, Production Design and Casting.

Almost Love (from TFF #47)-3- Best British Film, Debut (Khan) Direction (Khan)

The Lost Daughter-2- Original Screenplay and Supporting Actress (Buckley).

Flee-2- Best Film Not in the English Language and Best Animated Film.

Hand of God-2- Best Film Not in the English Language and Casting.

C'mon C'mon-1-Supporting Actor (Norman).

Petit Maman-1- Best Film Not in the English Language.

Becoming Cousteau-1- Documentary.

Cow-1- Documentary.

The Rescue-1- Documentary.

The complete listing of BAFTA nominees is linked here from Variety.

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