MTFB Predicts the Oscar Winners in Six More Categories / Cannes Speculation Starts / Interviews and Profiles: Branagh and Hinds

MTFB PREDICTS THE OSCAR WINNERS IN SIX MORE CATEGORIES

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

1) Dune

2) The Power of the Dog

3) Don't Look Up

4) Encanto

5) Parallel Mothers

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

1) No Time to Die/No Time to Die

2) Dos Oruguitas/Encanto

3) Be Alive/King Richard

4) Down to Joy/Belfast

5) Somehow You Do/Four Good Days

BEST COSTUMES

1) Cruella

2) Dune

3) Nightmare Alley

4) West Side Story

5) Cyrano

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

1) Dune

2) Spiderman: No Way Home

3) No Time to Die

4) Shang Chi

5) Free Guy

BEST SOUND

1) Dune

2) West Side Story

3) Not Time to Die

4) The Power of the Dog

5) Belfast

BEST MAKEUP/HAIR

1) Dune

2) Cruella

3) The Eyes of Tammy Faye

4) The House of Gucci

5) Coming 2 America

Through the 20 predicted feature film categories I have TFF #48 films winning the following:

The Power of the Dog-Picture, Director, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay and Cinematography.  It is competitive also for Supporting Actress, Editing and Score.

Belfast-Original Screenplay.  Belfast is also competitive for Picture and Director.

King Richard- Actor

If my predictions are perfect then Dune will win Editing, Production Design, Score, Visual Effects, Makeup/Hair and Sound for a total of six wins.  Dune is also competitive for Cinematography and Costumes.

So the race for what films wins the most Oscars on March 27th boils down to a close tussle between The Power of the Dog and Dune.  Cinematography and Editing might be the determining categories.

Here are the predictions from the previous two posts of the 14 other Oscar categories:

BEST PICTURE

1) The Power of the Dog

2) Belfast

3) West Side Story

4) King Richard

5) Licorice Pizza

6)  CODA

7) Dune

8) Don't Look Up

9) Drive My Car

10) Nightmare Alley

BEST DIRECTION

1) Jane Campion/The Power of the Dog

2) Kenneth Branagh/Belfast

3) Steven Spielberg/West Side Story

4) Paul Thomas Anderson/Licorice Pizza

5) Ryusuke Hamaguchi/Drive My Car

BEST ACTOR

1) Will Smith/King Richard

2) Benedict Cumberbatch/The Power of the Dog

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

4) Denzel Washington/The Tragedy of Macbeth

5) Javier Bardem/Being the Ricardos

BEST ACTRESS

1) Nicole Kidman/Being the Ricardos

2) Kristen Stewart/Spencer

3) Jessica Chastain/The Eyes of Tammy Faye

4) Olivia Colman/The Lost Daughter

5) Penelope Cruz/Parallel Mothers

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Ariana DeBose/West Side Story

2) Kirsten Dunst/The Power of the Dog

3) Aunjanue Ellis/King Richard

4) Jesse Buckley/The Lost Daughter

5) Judi Dench/Belfast

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

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

2) Troy Kotsur/CODA

3) Ciaran Hinds/Belfast

4) Jesse Plemoms/The Power of the Dog

5) J.K. Simmons/Being the Ricardos

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1) Belfast

2) Licorice Pizza

3) Don't Look Up

4) King Richard

5) The Worst Person in the World

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1) The Power of the Dog

2) CODA

3) The Lost Daughter

4) Drive My CarInterviews and Pro

5) Dune

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

1) Summer of Soul

2) Flee

3) Attica

4) Ascension

5) Writing with Fire

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

1) Encanto

2) The Mitchells vs. the Machines

3) Luca

4) Flee

5) Raya and the Last Dragon

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

1) Drive My Car

2) The Worst Person in the World

3) The Hand of God

4) Flee

5) Luana: A Yak in the Classroom

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

1) The Power of the Dog

2) Dune

3) The Tragedy of Macbeth

4) Nightmare Alley

5) West Side Story

BEST EDITING

1) Dune

2) The Power of the Dog

3) Don't Look Up

4) King Richard

5) tick, tick...BOOM

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

1) Dune

2) Nightmare Alley

3) West Side Story

4) The Power of the Dog

5) The Tragedy of Macbeth

CANNES SPECULATION STARTS

Oscar nominations are out, the Sundance and Berlin Fests are over and it's time to start thinking about what films might play Cannes and which of those might be crossover films that could be selected for TFF #49.

The Hollywood Reporter's Alex Ritman offers up 20 possibilities in the post from today that I have linked here.

Of the 20 films listed, the titles and directors that stand out to me a possibilities for The SHOW sight unseen are:

She Said/Maria Schrader dist: Universal

Crimes of the Future/David Cronenberg dist: Neon

The Son/Florian Zeller dist: Sony Pictures Classics

Showing Up/Kelly Reichardt dist: A24

Asteroid City/Wes Andrson dist: N/A

Bardo/Alejandro Gonzalez Inarittu dist: N/A

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

Kenneth Branagh on IFTA Screen discussions:

Ciaran Hinds with The Los Angeles Times

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