MTFB OSCAR TAKE: UPDATE: BEST PICTURE AND DIRECTION
In today's post I am updating Oscar predictions for Best Picture and Best Direction which were last posted on Oct. 6th. TFF #49 films are in Bold.
BEST PICTURE
1) The Fabelmans (1)
2) The Banshees of Inisherin (4)
3) Women Talking (2)
4) Everything Everywhere All at Once (5)
5) Top Gun: Maverick (6)
6) TAR (7)
7) Babylon (3)
8) Elvis (8)
9) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (9)
10) She Said (10)
11) The Woman King (11)empire of
12) Empire of Light (New)
Dropping out: Avatar: The Way of Water
Ought to think about: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On and Armageddon Time
BEST DIRECTION
1) Steven Spielberg/The Fabelmans (1)
2) Sarah Polley/Women Talking (2)
3) Todd Field/TAR (3)
4) Martin McDonagh/The Banshees of Inisherin (6)
5) The Daniels/EEAAO (5)
6) Damien Chazelle/Babylon (4)
7) Sam Mendes/Empire of Light (New)
Dropping out: Gina Prince-Blythwood/The Woman King
CRITIC'S CHOICE DOC NOMS INCLUDE TFF
The Critic's Choice Association announced its nominees for excellence in Documentaries on Monday and Telluride films fared well. A dozen films between TFF #48 and TFF #49 earned 28 nominations. Ryan White's Good Night Oppy led all TFF docs with six nominations, one behind the overall leader in nominations: Fire of Love.
Oppy, which was very buzzy throughout the Labor Day weekend, was nominated for: best Documentary, Direction, Editing, Score, Narration and Best Science/Nature documentary.
Other TFF films nominated include:
Three Minutes: A Lengthening (TFF #48): Best First Doc, Editing, Narration, Best Archival Doc, Best Historical Doc
The Automat (TFF #48): Best Doc, Best First Doc, Score, Best Historical Doc
Cow (TFF #48): Best First Doc, Cinematography, Best Science/Nature Doc
The U.S. and the Holocaust (TFF #49): Best Historical Doc. Best Doc Series
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (TFF #49): Best Direction and Best Political Doc
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song (TFF #48): Best Music Doc
If These Walls Could Talk (TFF #49): Best Music Doc
Retrograde (TFF #49): Best Political Doc
Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams (TFF #49): Best Biographical Doc
Sr. (TFF #49): Best Biographical Doc
The Return of Tanya Tucker (TFF #49): Best Music Doc
NEW TRAILER FOR CLOSE
The Match Factory dropped a new trailer for Lukas Dhont's Close on Monday. Belgium selected the film as its entry for the International Feature Oscar last month.
The description from IMDb:
"The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility."
And here is the new trailer form YouTube:
MATT NEGLIA'S OSCAR PICKS AND TFF #49
I am continuing my series wherein I check the Oscar predictions of a number of experts and how they have situated films that played at TFF #49. Previously I have passed along predictions from Variety's Clayton Davis, The Hollywood Reporter's Scott Feinberg and Awards Watch's Erik Anderson and Entertainment Weekly's Dave Karger. Today I'm highlighting Matt Neglia who founded Next Best Picture.
Matt is currently predicting all Oscar categories except the Shorts. Here's what he has Telluride films being nominated for:
Women Talking (6): Best Picture, Supporting Actress (Buckley), Supporting Actress (Foy), Supporting Actor (Whishaw), Adapted Screenplay and Original Score.
TAR (3): Best Direction, Actress (Blanchett), Original Screenplay
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (1): Best Documentary
Armageddon Time (1): Supporting Actor (Strong)
Bardo (1): International Feature
Empire of Light (1): Actress (Colman)
Living (1): Actor (Nighy)
TFF #49 total nominations: 14
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