The films from TFF #49 (and #48) continue to have a tough time gaining traction during this awards season. Since Monday's post we have witnessed Guild nominations from, among others, actors, directors, cinematographers and art directors. The Producers Guild will announce its ten nominees later today and The Critics Choice Awards ceremony will occur Sunday and those two events are the last two big puzzle pieces/precursors prior to the Jan. 24th Oscar nomination announcement. The WGA nominees won't influence voters as they will not announce their nominees until the day after Oscar nomination. additionally, the WGA has ruled out so many probable nominees that the two lists are almost guaranteed to be wildly different.
Here's what was revealed this week from The Globes and Guilds regarding TFF films:
Golden Globes: TFF films had a total of nine GG nominations going into Tuesday night's ceremony. To recap, those were:
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
Of the nine nominations, TAR won twice for Cate Blanchett as Best Actress/Drama and for Todd Field's screenplay. The complete list of GG winners is linked here.
Among the Guilds:
The Screen Actors Guild nominees from TFF films were: Best Actress Cate Blanchett/TAR, Best Actor: Bill Nighy/Living and Women Talking as Outstanding Cast. Here's the link to all of the SAG nominees.
The Directors Guild nominated Todd Field/TAR. Meanwhile, Charlotte Wells was nominated for Best First Time Director for Aftersun. The complete list of DGA Feature film nominees is linked here. Field and Wells join Previously announced nominees for Documentary feature direction. That list included two docs that played at TFF: Laura Poitras/All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and Matthew Heineman for Retrograde.
The American Society of Cinematographers nominated Roger Deakins/Empire of Light and Darius Khondji/Bardo for best documentary feature. All of the ASC nominees can be found here.
The Art Directors Guild nominated both Bardo and TAR for Best Production Design for a Contemporary Feature and Marcel the Shell with Shoes On for Animated feature.
ANOTHER BILL PENCE REMEMBRANCE
Howie Mosvhovitz, who has worked at the Telluride Film Festival since 1992 as a part of the Student Symposium staff, penned another very nice remembrance of TFF co-founder Bill Pence who died early last month. The piece was posted by the Colorado Sun on Tuesday.
Movshovitz writes in part:
"What was Bill like? He adored the movies. He was tremendously focused and disciplined. He expected the same from people who worked on the festival. He made sure to get the best film prints possible (years before digital); he expected good projection; he chose to work with people he found capable and interesting, and with Stella and Tom Luddy created a Telluride family of some of the most devoted lovers of cinema in the world — Chuck Jones, Werner Herzog, Bertrand Tavernier, Ken Burns, Louis Malle, the international programmer Pierre Rissient. Bill Pence never made himself a star — the festival and the films were the stars."
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. 29th. TFF #49 films are in Bold.
BEST PICTURE
1) Everything Everywhere All at Once (1)
2) Top Gun: Maverick (4)
3) The Fabelmans (2)
4) The Banshees of Inisherin (3)
5) Avatar: The Way of Water (5)
6) Elvis (7)
7) TAR (6)
8) Women Talking (8)
9) All Quiet on the Western Front (11)
10) Babylon (9)
11) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (9)
12) Triangle of Sadness (12)
Stealth possibilities: Aftersun, Living, GDT's Pinocchio, The Woman King, RRR
BEST DIRECTION
1) Steven Spielberg/The Fabelmans (1)
2) The Daniels/Everything Everywhere All at Once (2)
3) James Cameron/Avatar: The Way of Water (4)
4) Martin McDonagh/The Banshees of Inisherin (3)
5) Todd Field/TAR (5)
6) Baz Luhrman/Elvis (7)
7) Sarah Polley/Women Talking (6)
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) Lightyear (-)
7) Strange World (7)
Out: In-Oh
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
1) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (1)
2) All That Breathes (3)
3) Fire of Love (2)
4) Descendant (5)
5) Navalny (4)
6) The Territory (6)
7) Retrograde (7)
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
1) All Quiet on the Western Front (1)
2) Close (2)
3) Decision to Leave (3)
4) Argentina 1985 (5)
5 Eo (New)
6) Saint Omer (6)
7) Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (7)
Out: Holy Spider
EMAIL: mpgort@gmail.com
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