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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