Michael's Telluride Film Blog : 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.

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