Thursday, January 19, 2023

MTFB Oscar Update: Supporting Acting and More / BAFTA Nominations and TFF / Visitations: Nighy and More

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SUPPORTING ACTING AND MORE


                                              




I am updating predictions in the categories of Best  Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Original Score, Original Song and Sound.   These were last predicted on Jan. 5th.  Past ranking is to the right in parentheses.  Films from TFF #49 are in Bold.

FINAL MTFB OSCAR NOMINATIONS PREDICTIONS WILL BE IN MONDAY'S POST FOR ALL 23 CATEGORIES!

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS



1) Kerry Condon/The Banshees of Inisherin (1)
2) Angela Bassett/Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2)
3) Jamie Lee Curtis/Everything Everywhere All at Once (3)
4) Stephanie Hsu/Everything Everywhere All at Once (7)
5) Hong Chau/The Whale (-)

6) Janelle Monae/Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (5)
7) Dolly DeLeon/Triangle of Sadness (6)

Out: Jesse Buckley/Women Talking
Should be in the mix: Buckley, Foy, McCarthy and Ivey from Women Talking


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 (3)
4) Paul Dano/The Fabelmans (5)
5) Judd Hirsch/The Fabelmans (4)

6) Brad Pitt/Babylon (6)
7) Bryan Tyree Henry/Causeway (7)

Should be in the mix: Whishaw /Women Talking, Strong/Armageddon Time



BEST ORIGINAL SCORE




1) The Fabelmans (1)
2) Babylon (4)
3) Women Talking (2)
4) Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio (3)
5) The Banshees of Inisherin (5)

6) The Woman King (6)
7) Avatar: The Way of Water (7)



BEST ORIGINAL SONG

1) Naatu Naatu/RRR (2)
2) Lift Me Up/Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (1)
3) Hold My Hand/Top Gun: Maverick (3)
4) Ciao Papa/Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio (4)
5) New Body Rhumba/White Noise (7)

6) Applause/Tell It Like a Woman (5)
7) Carolina/Where the Crawdads Sing (6)




BEST SOUND


1) Top Gun: Maverick (1)
2) Avatar: The Way of Water (2)
3) Elvis (3) 
4) All Quiet on the Western Front (7)
5) The Batman (6)

6) Everything Everywhere All at Once (7)
7) Babylon (5)


BAFTA NOMINATIONS AND TFF


The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) announced their nominees for film excellence this morning.  Seven TFF films earned a total of 19 nominations with Todd Field's TAR leading the wat for films from The SHOW with five nominations.  Here's the listing:

TAR (5): Best Film, Direction/Field, Actress/Blanchett, Original Screenplay and Sound.
Living (4): Best British Film, Actor/Nighy, Adapted Screenplay and Rising Star/Wood.
Aftersun (4): Best British Film, Debut/Wells, Actor/Mescal and Casting.
Empire of Light (3): Best British Film, Best Supporting Actor/Ward and Cinematography.
The Wonder (1): Best British Film
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (1): Best Documentary
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (1): Best Animated Film

Edward Bergers' All Quiet on the Western Front earned the most nominations of any film with 14.





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