Thursday, November 3, 2022

MTFB Oscar Take: Updating Best Picture and Direction / Davis' TFF #49 Predix / Visitations: Anne Hathaway, James Gray and More

MTFB OSCAR TAKE: UPDATING 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. 20th.  TFF #49 films are in Bold.

BEST PICTURE




1) The Fabelmans (1)
2) The Banshees of Inisherin (2)
3) Women Talking (3)
4) Everything Everywhere All at Once (4)
5) TAR (6)
6) Top Gun: Maverick (5)
7) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (9)
8) Babylon (7) 
9) She Said (10)
10) Elvis (8)
11) Triangle of Sadness (New)
12) Empire of Light (12)

Out: The Woman King
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) Martin McDonagh/The Banshees of Inisherin (4)
4) Todd Field/TAR (3)
5) The Daniels/EEAAO (5)
6) Damien Chazelle/Babylon (6)
7) Rueben Ostlund/Triangle of Sadness (New)

Dropping out: Sam Mendes/Empire of Light 


DAVIS' TFF #49 PREDIX




I'm keeping tabs this year on some of the Oscar prognosticators out there and what nominations they think TFF #49 films will earn when that announcement comes of the morning of Jan. 24th.

I started with Variety's Clayton Davis back on Sept. 26th.  At that time, this is what Davis had for TFF films:

Women Talking (7 nominations): Picture, Direction, Supporting Actress/Buckley, Supporting Actress/Foy, Supporting Actress/Ivey, Supporting Actor/Whishaw, Adapted Screenplay

TAR (5 nominations): Picture, Direction, Actress/Blanchett, Supporting Actress/Hoss, Original Screenplay

Empire of Light (3 nominations): Picture, Actress/Colman and Cinematography

Bardo (2 nominations) International Feature, Cinematography

Single nominations:

Living: Best Actor/Nighy
Close: International Feature
Holy Spider: International Feature
***Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (TFF #48): Best Animated Feature


Now, five and a half weeks later, this is what Mr. Davis has:

Women Talking (5 nominations): Best Picture, Direction/Polley, Supporting Actress/Buckley, Adapted Screenplay and Score.  Davis has dropped acting noms for Care Foy and Ben Whishaw.

TAR (5 nominations): Best Picture, Direction (Field), Actress (Blanchett), Supporting Actress/Hoss, Original Screenplay.  No changes.

Living (3 nominations): Best Picture, Actor/Nighy, Adapted Screenplay.  Davis has added Living to the Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay predictions.

Empire of Light (2 nominations): Best Cinematography and Original Score.  Empire has been dropped from Best Picture and Best Actress.

Single nominations:

Good Night Oppy: Documentary
Sr.: Documentary
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed: Documentary
Retrograde: Documentary
Holy Spider: International Feature
Close: International Feature

Total TFF #49 nominations predicted by Davis at this time: 21




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