FEINBERG'S FIRST OSCAR TAKE
In my last post I ran down the Oscar predictions from Variety's Clayton Davis in as far as TFF #49 films were concerned. Today, I'm taking the same approach with The Hollywood Reporter's Chief Awards Editor Scott Feinberg who dropped his first look at the Oscar race on Tuesday. If Scott is 100% accurate, this is how Oscar nominations shake out in the 11 categories he has included in his predictions.
Women Talking: Best Picture, Direction, Supporting Actress/Foy, Supporting Actress/Buckley, Adapted Screenplay
TAR: Best Picture, Direction, Actress/Blanchett
Empire of Light: Best Actress/Colman
Close: International Feature
Holy Spider: International Feature
Bardo: International Feature
Goodnight Oppy: Documentary Feature
Retrograde: Documentary Feature
Other TFF#49 Films/Performers who Feinberg has listed as "Major Threats" Include:
*Close and Goodnight Oppy in Best Picture
*Close/Lukas Dhont in Best Direction
*Living/Bill Nighy in Best Actor
*Women Talking/Rooney Mara and One Fine Morning/Lea Seydoux in Best Actress
*Women Talking/Ben Whishaw, Armageddon Time/Jeremy Strong and Empire of Light/Michael Ward in Best Supporting Actor
*Lady Chatterley's Lover and The Wonder in Adapted Screenplay
*TAR, Close and Armageddon Time in Original Screenplay
*All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Sr., The Return of Tanya Tucker and Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen (TFF #48) in Best Documentary
*Bones and All in Best Song
NEW TRAILER FOR TAR
Focus Features dropped a new trailer for Todd Fields' TAR starring Cate Blanchett yesterday. The film has earned strong reviews and won both MTFB's Professionals poll as well as the Composite poll. TAR is scheduled for release next week: Oct. 7th.
Here's the new trailer from YouTube:
AFTERSUN POSTER AND TRAILER
A24 has revealed a poster for Charlotte Wells' Aftersun as well as releasing a first trailer for the film. You can see the poster above and the trailer below via YouTube:
Aftersun is set to be released on Oct. 21st.
DENMARK SELECTS HOLY SPIDER AND WE GET A NEW TRAILER
Denmark has selected Ali Abbasi's Holy Spider as its entrant for the Best International Feature Oscar race. Last year Denmark entered Flee which ended up with an incredible set of nominations for Best International Feature, Best Documentary and Best Animated Feature.
Holy Spider is being distributed in the U.S. by Utopia and does not yet have a scheduled release date.
The announcement was made Tuesday by the Danish Film Institute. You can find that official announcement here.
And here's the new trailer for the film that was released yesterday (from YouTube):
NETFLIX ACQUIRES SR.
News this week that Netflix had acquired the documentary about Robert Downey Sr. that screened in Telluride four weeks ago. The film was well received by Telluride attendees as it finished third in my Telluride People's poll just behind women talking and TAR.
Sr. is directed by Chris Smith.
The Hollywood Reporter tells us that Netflix plans and Oscar push for the film and to expect it to be available on the streaming service before the end of the year.
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