Bill Pence 1940-2022 / MTFB Oscar Update: Best Picture, Direction and More

BILL PENCE 1940-2022

Bill and Stella Pence at the 33rd telluride Film Festival

(Photo by Eugene Hernandez/Indiewire)

Sad news to report as Telluride Film Festival co-founder Bill Pence has died.  The news came over about a 24 hour period triggered by a chance viewing of Turner Classic Movies (TCM) year end TCM Remembers video that is posted to YouTube.  Mr. Pence's inclusion comes at the 2:03 mark:

What was puzzling was that I couldn't immediately find corroboration but over the course of the last day or so I have been able to confirm the news.  One piece of corroboration came last night via The Telluride Daily Planet's online edition which published a tribute from long time TFF staffer Jim Bedford.  You can find that linked here.

Another came with the discovery of an undated post from The Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth.  That post is undated and is linked here.

From Bedford's Telluride Daily Planet article:

"Bill Pence died on Dec. 6, 2022, after a long illness. He is survived by wife Stella, daughters Zazie and Lara, four grandchildren, and many others whose lives he influenced with his work, direction, and love. Bill's fire burned so very brightly and touched so many. Those who worked for him did it as much to not disappoint him as to carry on his vision. No one wanted to be the one who screwed up the Telluride Film Festival."

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: BEST PICTURE, DIRECTION AND MORE

In today's post I am updating Oscar predictions for Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Animated, Documentary and International features which were last posted on Dec. 15th.  TFF #49 films are in Bold.

BEST PICTURE

1) Everything Everywhere All at Once (3)

2) The Fabelmans (1)

3) The Banshees of Inisherin (2)

4) Top Gun: Maverick (5)

5) Avatar: The Way of Water (8)

6) TAR (6)

7) Elvis (7)

8) Women Talking (4)

9) Babylon (9)

10) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (10)

11) All Quiet on the Western Front (New)

12) Triangle of Sadness  (12)

Out: The Woman King

BEST DIRECTION

1) Steven Spielberg/The Fabelmans (1)

2) The Daniels/Everything Everywhere All at Once (5)

3) Martin McDonagh/The Banshees of Inisherin (3)

4) James Cameron/Avatar: The Way of Water (7)

5) Todd Field/TAR (4)

6) Sarah Polley/Women Talking (2)

7) Baz Luhrman/Elvis (New)

Out: Damien Chazelle/Babylon

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

1) GDT's Pinocchio (1)

2) Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2)

3) Turning Red (3)

4) Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (4)

5) Wendall and Wild (5)

6) Inu-Oh (New)

7) Strange World

Out: Lightyear

BEST DOUMENATRY FEATURE

1) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (3)

2) Fire of Love (2)

3) All That Breathes (4)

4) Navalny (5)

5) Descendant (6)

6) The Territory (7)

7) Retrograde (New)

BEST  INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

1) All Quiet on the Western Front (2)

2) Close (1)

3) Decision to Leave (3)

4) Argentina 1985 (5)

5) Holy Spider (4)

6) Saint Omer (6)

7) Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (7)

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MTFB Oscar Update: Screenplays and More / If the Nominations Were Announced This Today... / New Clip from Women Talking / Visitations: Nighy, Buckley, Foy, Mescal and More

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SCREENPLAYS AND MORE

Today I am updating predictions in the categories of Best Original and Adapted Screenplay.  These were last predicted on Dec. 12th.  In addition, I have included my first attempts to predict nominees in Makeup/Hair, Costumes and Visual Effects.  Past ranking is to the right of the performer in parentheses.  Films from TFF #49 are in Bold.

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1) Women Talking (1)

2) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2)

3) Living (5)

4) She Said (3)

5) The Whale (4)

6) White Noise (5)

7) All Quiet on the Western Front

Out: Top Gun: Maverick

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1) Everything Everywhere All at Once (1)

2) The Banshees of Inisherin (2)

3) The Fabelmans (3)

4) TAR (4)

5) Triangle of Sadness (5)

6) Aftersun (7)

7) Babylon (6)

MAKEUP/HAIR

1) Elvis

2) The Whale

3) The Batman

4) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

5) Babylon

6) All Quiet on the Western Front

7) Blonde

COSTUMES

1) Elvis

2) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

3) Babylon

4) The Fabelmans

5) The Woman King

6) Living

7) Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

VISUAL EFFECTS

1) Avatar: The Way of Water

2) Top Gun: Maverick

3) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

4) The Batman

5) Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

6) All Quiet on the Western Front

7) Nope

IF THE NOMINATIONS WERE ANNOUNCED TODAY...

So, I went back, now that I've posted predictions for all 20 Oscar feature film categories and harvested the numbers for TFF films and if the nominations were announced this morning this is what TFF films would be up for:

Women Talking- Five nominations and one other possibility: Best Picture, Direction, Supporting Actress (Buckley), Adapted Screenplay and Score.  The other possibility is Best Supporting Actor (Whishaw).

TAR- Four nominations and one other possibility: Best Picture, Direction, Actress (Blanchett), Original Screenplay.  The other possibility is for Editing.

Living- Two nominations and one other possibility: Best Actor (Nighy), Adapted Screenplay.  The other possibility is for Costume Design.

Several TFF films look likely to receive a single nomination:

Empire of Light: Cinematography and a possibility for Best Actress (Colman)

Close: International Feature

Holy Spider: International Feature

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed: Documentary Feature

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (TFF #48): Animated Feature 

A couple of other TFF films also have some possibility of sneaking into the list of nominees according to my current set of predictions,

Aftersun could earn a nomination for Best Actor (Mescal) and Original Screenplay.

Bardo might slide into a Cinematography nomination.

Of course with a month yet to go before nomination morning...all of this could change and likely will.

NEW CLIP FROM WOMEN TALKING

From YouTube:

VISITATIONS

WOMEN TALKING

Clare Foy from The Playlist.

Jesse Buckley and Sheila McCarthy from The Hollywood Reporter.

Ben Whishaw from The Playlist.

Sarah Polley from the Los Angeles Times.

Sarah Polley from Entertainment Weekly.

EMPIRE OF LIGHT

Oliva Colman, Sam Mendes and others from The Academy Conversations.

LIVING

Bill Nighy, Oliver Hermanus and Kazuo Ishiguro from Variety.

Bill Nighy from Awards Radar.

Bill Nighy and Oliver Hermanus from Academy Conversations.

Bill Nighy from ShowBiz411.

Bill Nighy from Deadline.

TAR

Nina Hoss from The Playlist.

AFTERSUN

Paul Mescal from Awards Radar.

BARDO

Alejandro G. Inarritu from Indiewire.

THE WONDER

Sebastian Lelio from The Playlist.

ARMAGEDDON TIME

James Gray from GQ.

James Gray from The Hollywood Reporter.

Anne Hathaway from The Hollywood Reporter.

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Oscar Narrows the Field/ MTFB Oscar Update: Supporting Acting and More / London Critics and TFF #49

OSCAR NARROWS THE FIELD

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences released shortlists for 10 of its 23 categories yesterday.  That means that the ultimate five nominees and Oscar winner in each of these categories must come from the lists announced Wednesday.  Here's how Telluride films fared within those categories:

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Women Talking.

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey A Song***, Last Flight Home, Retrograde (and Navalny if you count the Elk Park screening prior to the Fest starting).

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE: Close, Holy Spider, Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths.

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT: Anastasia, Angola Do You Hear Us: Voices from a Plantation Prison.

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT: Le Pupille, Sideral***

***Denotes TFF #48 films.

No Telluride films made the shortlists for Original Song, Makeup/Hair, Visual Effects, Sound or Animated Short.

The complete shortlists are linked here from The academy website.

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SUPPORTING ACTING AND MORE

I am updating predictions in the categories of Best  Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor.  These were last predicted on Dec. 8th. Additionally, here are my first predictions in th categories of Best Original Score, Original Song and Sound. Past ranking is to the right of the performer in parentheses.  Performances from TFF #49 are in Bold.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Kerry Condon/The Banshees of Inisherin (2)

2) Jesse Buckley/Women Talking (1)

3) Angela Bassett/Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (7)

4) Jamie Lee Curtis/Everything Everywhere All at Once (3)

5) Janelle Monae/Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (New)

6) Dolly DeLeon/Triangle of Sadness (New)

7) Carrie Mulligan/She Said (6)

Out: Clare Foy/Women Talking and Hong Chau/The Whale

Comment: This is such a dynamic and shifting category this season.  Despite dropping out of my top seven both Foy and Chau are still very serious contenders as is Stepahnie Hsu from Everything Everywhere All at Once.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Ke Huy Quan/Everything Everywhere All at Once (1)

2) Brendan Gleeson/The Banshees of Inisherin (2)

3) Barry Keoghan/The Banshees of Inisherin (6)

4) Judd Hirsch/The Fabelmans (3)

5) Paul Dano/The Fabelmans (4)

6) Brad Pitt/Babylon (New)

7) Ben Whishaw/Women Talking (5)

Out: Bryan Tyree Henry/Causeway 

Comment: Don't discount Henry sneaking in or, Eddie Redmayne (The Good Nurse) or Anthony Hopkins (Armageddon Time) either.

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

1) The Fabelmans

2) Women Talking

3) Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio

4) Babylon

5) The Banshees of Inisherin

6) The Woman King

7) She Said

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

1) Lift Me Up/Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

2) Naatu Naatu/RRR

3) Hold My Hand/Top Gun: Maverick

4) Ciao Papa/Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio

5) Carolina/Where the Crawdads Sing

6) Applause/Tell It Like a Woman

7) New Body Rhumba/White Noise

BEST SOUND

1) Top Gun: Maverick

2) Avatar: The Way of Water

3) Elvis

4) Babylon

5) The Batman

6) Everything Everywhere All at Once

7) All Quiet on the Western Front and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

LONDON CRITICS AND TFF #49

The London Film Critics Circle announced their nominees for film excellence yesterday.  Sven films that played at TFF #49 were included with a combined 27 nominations.  Charlotte Well's Aftersun led all Telluride films with a total of eight nominations.   Here's the breakdown by film:

Aftersun (8): Film of the Year, Director of the Year, Britsh/Irish Film of the Year, Actor of the Year (Mescal), Screenplay of the Year, British/Irish Actor if the Year (Mescal), British/Irish Breakthrough Filmmaker of the Year (Wells), Young British/Irish Performer of the Year (Corio).

TAR (6): Film of the Year, Director of the Year, Actress of the Year (Blanchett), Supporting Actress of the Year (Hoss), Screenplay of the Year, Technical Achievement: Sound Design.

The Wonder (5): British/Irish Film of the Year, Actress of the Year (Pugh), British/Irish Actress of the Year (Pugh), Young British/Irish Performer of the Year (Cassidy), Technical Achievement: Casting.

Living (4): Film of the Year, British/Irish Film of the Year, Actor of the Year (Nighy), British/Irish Actor of the Year (Nighy).

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2): Film of the Year, Documentary of the Year.

Women Talking (1): British/Irish Actress of the Year (Buckley).

Empire of Light (1): British /Irish Actress of the Year (Colman).

The complete list of nominees from The LFCC is linked here.

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MTFB Oscar Update: Lead Acting Plus More / Indiewire's Top 50 and TFF / Hollywood Critics Association and TFF / Visitations: Inarittu, Deakins, Polley and More

MTFB OSCAR TAKE: LEAD ACTING UPDATE 

I am updating predictions in the categories of Best Actress and Best Actor and adding first predictions for Cinematography, Editing and Production Design.  These were last predicted on Dec. 5th.  Past ranking is to the right of the performer in parentheses.  Performances from TFF #49 are in Bold.

BEST ACTRESS

1) Cate Blanchett/TAR (1)

2) Michelle Yeoh/Everything Everywhere All at Once (2)

3) Michelle Williams/The Fabelmans (3)

4) Danielle Deadwyler/Till (4)

5) Margot Robbie/Babylon (5)

6) Viola Davis/The Woman King (6)

7) Olivia Colman/Empire of Light (7)

BEST ACTOR

1) Brendan Fraser/The Whale (1)

2) Colin Ferrell/The Banshees of Inisherin (2)

3) Austin Butler/Elvis (3)

4) Bill Nighy/Living (4)

5) Tom Cruise/Top Gun: Maverick (5)

6) Paul Mescal/Aftersun (New)

7) Hugh Jackman/The Son (6)

Out: Gabriel LaBelle/The Fabelmans

BEST CINEMATOGRAHY

1) Avatar: The Way of Water

2) Top Gun: Maverick

3) The Fabelmans

4) Babylon

5) Empire of Light

6) All Quiet on the Western Front

7) Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

BEST FILM EDITING

1) Top Gun: Maverick

2) Everything Everywhere All at Once

3) The Fabelmans

4) Avatar: The Way of Water

5) Elvis

6) The Banshees of Inisherin

7) TAR

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

1) Elvis

2) Babylon

3) The Fabelmans

4) Avatar: The Way of Water

5) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

6) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

7) Everything Everywhere All at Once

INDIEWIRE'S TOP 50 AND TFF

Indiewire published its survey of more than 160 film critics and journalists on Wednesday this past week and TFF films nabbed nine of the 50 spots.  I have listed them in the order they appear on the list:

43) Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

34) Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (TFF #48)

31) Three Minutes: A Lengthening (TFF #48)

20) Bones and All

19) Living

18) Women Talking

10) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

2) Aftersun

1) TAR

The complete list of 50 films is linked here.

HOLLYWOOD CRITICS ASSOCAITION AND TFF

The Hollywood Critics Association announced their nominees for the best in cinema for 2022 on Thursday.  Eight TFF films landed at least one nomination and TFF films earned 20 nominations overall.  Women Talking and TAR led the way with five nominations each.  Here's the rundown:

Women Talking (5): Best Picture, Direction, Supporting Actor (Whishaw), Adapted Screenplay and Ensemble.  Women Talking had also been nominated for two HCA Creative Arts Awards on Dec. 8th for Best Casting Direction and Score.

TAR (5): Best Picture, Direction, Actress (Blanchett), Original Screenplay and Best Independent Film.

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On From (TFF #48) (3): Best Independent Film, Animated Film, Vocal Performance/Slate.

Aftersun (3): Best Independent Film, First Feature, Actor (Mescal).

Bones and All (1): Best Horror Film.

Close (1): Best International Film,

Good Night Oppy (1): Best Documentary,

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (1): Best Documentary.

Everything Everywhere All at Once led all films with a total of nine nominations.  Here us the complete list of nominees from The HCA.

VISITATIONS: INARITTU, DEAKINS, POLLEY AND MORE

Alejandro G. Inarittu on Bardo from Indiewire.

Alejandro G. Inarittu on Bardo from Awards Radar.

Roger Deakins on Empire of Light from Awards Watch.

Sarah Polley with Francis Ford Coppola on Women Talking from Variety.

Micheal Ward on Empire of Light from Next Best Picture.

Melissa Lesh and Trevor Frost on Wildcat from Indiewire.

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MTFB Oscar Take: Picture, Direction and More / Critics Choice Nominations / Trailer and Poster for Women Talking / Visitations: Inarittu, Polley and More

MTFB OSCAR TAKE: UPDATING BEST PICTURE AND DIRECTION...ADDING DOCUMENTARY, ANIMATED FEATURE AND INTERNATIONAL FILM

In today's post I am updating Oscar predictions for Best Picture and Best Direction which were last posted on Dec. 1st.  In addition I am including first predictions for Best Animated, Documentary and International films.  TFF #49 films are in Bold.

BEST PICTURE

1) The Fabelmans (1)

2) The Banshees of Inisherin (2)

3) Everything Everywhere All at Once (5)

4) Women Talking (3)

5) Top Gun: Maverick (4)

6) TAR (6)

7) Elvis (7)

8) Avatar: The Way of Water (9)

9) Babylon (8)

10) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (9)

11) The Woman King (New)

12) Triangle of Sadness  (10)

Out: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (11)

Stealth BP possibles: RRR, She Said, GDT's Pinocchio, Living

BEST DIRECTION

1) Steven Spielberg/The Fabelmans (1)

2) Sarah Polley/Women Talking (2)

3) Martin McDonagh/The Banshees of Inisherin (3)

4) Todd Field/TAR (4)

5) The Daniels/EEAAO (5)

6) Damien Chazelle/Babylon (6)

7) James Cameron/Avatar: The Way of Water (New)

Out: Rueben Ostlund/Triangle of Sadness

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

1) GDT's Pinocchio

2) Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

3) Turning Red

4) Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

5) Wendall and Wild

6) Strange World

7) Lightyear

BEST DOUMENATRY FEATURE

1) Good Night Oppy

2) Fire of Love

3) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

4) All That Breathes

5) Navalny

6) Descendant

7) The Territory

BEST  INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

1) Close

2) All Quiet on the Western Front

3) Decision to Leave

4) Holy Spider

5) Argentina 1985

6) Saint Omer

7) Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

CRITICS CHOICE NOMINATIONS

The Critics Choice Association named their nominees for film superlatives on Wednesday morning.  Nine different Telluride films earned at least one nomination with Todd Field's TAR leading the way with seven total nominations.  Here's the breakdown:

TAR (7): Best Picture, Direction, Actress (Blanchett), Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing and Score.

Women Talking (6): Best Picture, Direction, Supporting Actress (Buckley), Ensemble, Adapted Screenplay and Score.

Aftersun (3): Best Actor (Mescal), Young Actor (Corio), Original Screenplay

Living (2): Best Actor (Nighy), Adapted Screenplay

Empire of Light (1): Cinematography

Armageddon Time (1): Best Young Actor (Repeta)

Bardo (1): Best Foreign Language Film

Close (1): Best Foreign Language Film

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (1): Best Animated Film

Everything Everywhere All at Once led all films with 14 nominations.

You can fins the complete list of nominees linked here.

TRAILER AND POSTER FOR WOMEN TALKING

New views of Sarah Polley's Women Talking with a new poster and a trailer.  Here's the trailer via YouTube:

 And the new poster:

VISITATIONS: INARITTU, POLLEY AND MORE

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarittu on Bardo from Gold Derby.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarittu on Bardo from The Hollywood Reporter.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarittu on Bardo from The Playlist.

Sarah Polley on Women Talking from The Hollywood Reporter.

Mary McCartney on If These Walls Could Sing from Solzy at the Movies.

Micheal Ward on Empire of Light from Indiewire.

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MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SCREENPLAYS

Today I am updating predictions in the categories of Best Original and Adapted Screenplay.  These were last predicted on Nov. 14th.  Past ranking is to the right of the performer in parentheses.  Films from TFF #49 are in Bold.

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1) Women Talking (1)

2) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2)

3) She Said (3)

4) The Whale (4)

5) Living (6)

6) White Noise (5)

7) Top Gun: Maverick (7)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1) Everything Everywhere All at Once (2)

2) The Banshees of Inisherin (1)

3) The Fabelmans (3)

4) TAR (4)

5) Triangle of Sadness (5)

6) Babylon (7)

7) Aftersun (New)

Out: Armageddon Time

GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS AND TFF

It was a tough morning for TFF films today as TFF #49 (and #48) films were nominated for a meager total of nine Golden Globes.  TAR led TFF films with three nominations.  Here's the list:

TAR (3): Best Picture-Drama, Actress (Blanchett), Screenplay

Women Talking (2): Best Screenplay and Score

Living (1): Best Actor/Drama (Nighy)

Empire of Light (1): Best Actress/Drama (Colman)

Close (1): Best Picture Not in the English Language

 

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (from TFF #48) (1): Best Animated Film

The complete Golden Globes list of nominees is linked here.

LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION  AND NEW YORK FILM CRITICS ONLINE AND TFF

The Los Angeles Critics showed quite a bit of love to Telluride films Sunday with Todd Field's TAR getting the most of it.  TAR was named Best Film, and Field was named for Best Direction and Best Screenplay while Cate Blanchett was named co-winner for Best Lead Performance.  TAR also was runner-up for Best Editing.

Other TFF participants winning plaudits from the L.A. critics were:

Bill Nighy co-winner for Best Lead Performance in Living.

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed for Best Documentary

Aftersun for Best Editing

Jesse Buckley was co-runner-up for Best Supporting Performance for Women Talking

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On was runner-up for Best Animated Film (TFF #48)

The complete rundown from the LAFCA is linked here.

Meanwhile the New York Film Critics Online were much less enamored of TFF films with limited mentions.

TAR and Women Talking were named to the NYFCO 10 Best of 2022 list.

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed was named Best Documentary

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On was named Best Animated Film

Charlotte Wells was named Best Debut Director for Aftersun

The NYFCO complete list can be found here courtesy of Next Best Picture.

NBR AND AFI AND TFF #49

The national Board of Review and the American Film Institute named their "Best Of" lists this week.  Here's how Telluride films fared from those organizations.

The National Board of Review awarded the following to TFF films:

Best Directorial Debut: Charlotte Wells/Aftersun

Best Animated Film: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (from TFF #48)

Best International Film: Close

Best Documentary: Sr.

Best Acting Ensemble: Women Talking

Freedom of Expression Award: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Top 10 Films of the Year included Aftersun and Women Talking

Top 5 Documentaries included All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and Wildcat

Top 10 Independent Films included Armageddon Time, Living and The Wonder

Top Gun: Maverick was named Best Film of the Year by NBR.

The full NBR list is linked here.

The American Film Institute list of the the 10 Best Films of 2022 included TFF #49 films TAR and Women Talking.

The full AFI list is linked here.

VISITATIONS: MENDES, INARITTU, POLLEY AND MORE

Sam Mendes on Empire of Light from The Playlist.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarittu on Bardo from Deadline.

Sarah Polley on Women Talking from Deadline.

Dean Fleischer Camp on Marcel the Shell with Shoes On from Awards Daily.

Laura Poitras on All the Beauty and the Bloodshed from A. Frame.

Sheila McCarthy on Women Talking from Pop Culture Confidential.

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MTFB Oscar Take: Supporting Update / Satellites and TFF #49 / BIFA and TFF #49 / The Playlist 100 and TFF #50 / Visitations: Downey Jr., Whishaw and Wells

MTFB OSCAR TAKE: SUPPORTING UPDATE

I am updating predictions in the categories of Best  Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor.  These were last predicted on Nov. 24th.  Past ranking is to the right of the performer in parentheses.  Performances from TFF #49 are in Bold.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Jesse Buckley/Women Talking (1)

2) Kerry Condon/The Banshees of Inisherin (2)

3) Jamie Lee Curtis/Everything Everywhere All at Once (5)

4) Clare Foy/Women Talking (3)

5) Hong Chau/The Whale (6)

6) Carey Mulligan/She Said (4)

7) Angela Bassett/Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (7)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Ke Huy Quan/Everything Everywhere All at Once (2)

2) Brendan Gleeson/The Banshees of Inisherin (1)

3) Judd Hirsch/The Fabelmans (3)

4) Paul Dano/The Fabelmans (4)

5) Ben Whishaw/Women Talking (5)

6) Barry Keoghan/The Banshees of Inisherin (6)

7) Bryan Tyree Henry/Causeway (New)

Out: Eddie Redmayne/The Good Nurse 

SATELLITES AND TFF #49

The International Press Association announced the nominees for its Satellite Awards earlier this morning.  TFF #49 earned 25 nominations with one other nomination for a TFF #48 film.  Here's the breakdown:

Women Talking-6: Best Picture/Drama, Direction, Supporting Actress (Foy), Supporting Actor (Whishaw), Adapted Screenplay and Original Score

TAR-4: Best Picture: Drama,/Actress (Blanchett), Original Screenplay, Editing

Living-4: Best Picture/Drama, Actor (Nighy), Adapted Screenplay and Costumes

Empire of Light-2: Cinematography and Costumes

Close-2: Best Picture/ International  and Original Screenplay

Good Night Oppy-2: Best Documentary, Visual Effects

Armageddon Time-1: Supporting Actor (Strong)

Holy Spider-1: Best Picture/International

Bardo-1: Best Picture/International

The Return of Tanya Tucker-1: Documentary

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed-1: Documentary

And from TFF #48- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On for Best Animated Film

I am particularly pleased with the love for Living, the nominations for Jeremy Storng and Ben Whishaw in Supporting Actor and, of course, the Marcel nomination.

The complete list of nominees is linked here from the IPA.

BIFA AND TFF #49

The British Independent Film Awards were named  this past week and TFF #49 fils garnered nine awards led by Aftersun which won more BIFAs than any other film with seven.  The Wonder and Living each picked up a single accolade.  here's the breakdown:

Aftersun: Best British Independent Film, Direction, Debut Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing and Music Supervision.

The Wonder: Best Original Music.

Living: Best Production Design.

The complete list of nominees and winners from BIFA is linked here.

THE PLAYIST 100 AND TFF #50

As has become my habit, here is my review of The Playlist's just published 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2023 and some guesses as to what from that list that could make the lineup of the 50thedition of the Telluride Film Festival.  

Last year I ended up naming five films that DID play TFF #49: TAR, Armageddon Time, Bardo, Bones and All and Women Talking.  Looking back, it seems 5-6 films is about my average to get right from this exercise and generally they are films that are among the top 20 of the list.

Here are this year's guesses in the order that they appear on the list;

84) Rustin

78) Shirley

77) The Royal Hotel

66) The End

39) Strangers

37) The Actor

35) Nightbitch

34) The Way of the Wind

33) Love Lies Bleeding

29) Beth and Don

27) Megalopolis

16) Blitz

15) May/December

14) El Conde

11) Zone of Interest

10) Maestro

8) Priscilla

7) Poor Things

2) The Killer

1) Killers of the Flower Moon

Admittedly, The Killer and Flower Moon are likely more wishful thinking but a guy can dream.

The complete Playlist list is linked here.

VISITATIONS

Downey Jr. on Sr. from Indiewire.

Ben Whishaw on Women Talking from Gold Derby.

Charlotte Wells on Aftersun from Film at Lincoln Center.

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