Thursday, February 24, 2022

MTFB'S Oscar Take: Updating the Big Eight / Indiewire's Critics Poll for 2021 / Interviews and Profiles: Joe Wright

MTFB'S OSCAR TAKE: UPDATING THE BIG EIGHT

With little more than a month to go until Oscar night, March 7th, here is an update on the eight major above the line categories with winners predictions.  As always TFF #48 films and performers are indicated in Bold.


BEST PICTURE




1) The Power of the Dog
2) Belfast
3) West Side Story
4) King Richard
5) Dune
6) Licorice Pizza
7) CODA
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) Licorice Pizza/Paul Thomas Anderson
5) Ryusuke Hamaguchi/Drive My Car


BEST ACTRESS

1) Nicole Kidman/Being the Ricardos
2) Jessica Chastain/The Eyes of Tammy Faye
3) Kristen Stewart/Spencer
4) Olivia Colman/The Lost Daughter
5) Penelope Cruz/Parallel Mothers


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


1) BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Ariana DeBose/West Side Story
2) Kirsten Dunst/The Power of the Dog
3) Aujanue 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 Plemons/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 Car
5) Dune


THE MOST RECENT PREDICTIONS FOR THE OTHER CATEGORIES


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


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


INDIEWIRE'S CRITICS POLL FOR 2021




Indiewire polled 187critics asking them what the best films were for 2021.  They posted those results with a Top 50 list earlier this week.  TFF #48 films did well.  Very well.  Here's the rundown of where films from The SHOW ended up on the list:

#49 King Richard
#44 Cyrano
#38 The Card Counter
#37 Spencer
#32 Red Rocket
#31 The Velvet Underground
#23 A Hero
#22 Bergman Island
#21 Belfast
#16 The Lost Daughter
#10 C'mon C'mon
#8 Petite Maman
#7 Flee
#6 The French Dispatch
#1 The Power of the Dog



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