OSCAR #95 IN THE BOOK
Here are your winners from last night's 95th Academy Awards:
BEST PICTURE: Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST DIRECTION: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert/Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST ACTRESS: Michelle Yeoh/Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST ACTOR: Brendan Fraser/The Whale
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jamie Lee Curtis/Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Ke Huy Quan/Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Women Talking
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE: All Quiet on the Western Front
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Navalny
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: All Quiet on the Western Front
BEST ORIGINAL SONG: Naatu Naatu/RRR
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: All Quiet on the Western Front
BEST EDITING: Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: All Quiet on the Western Front
BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
BEST MAKEUP/HAIR: The Whale
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: Avatar: The Way of Water
BEST SOUND: Top Gun: Maverick
BEST ANIMATED SHORT: The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT: An Irish Goodbye
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT: The Elephant Whispers
COMMENTARY:
TFF films go 1 of 17 on Oscar night #95 with the only winning coming for Sarah Polley's Adapted Screenplay for Women Talking, TAR, which led all Telluride films this year with six nominations ended the night with no wins. TAR was in good company as The Banshees of Inisherin went 0/9, Elvis was 0/8 and The Fabelman's was 0/7.
Everything Everywhere All at Once won seven Oscars, the most since Slumdog Millionaire back at the 2009 ceremony. Picture, Directors, Actress, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay and Editing.
All Quiet on the Western Front picked up a four trophies for a very solid night: International Feature, Cinematography, Production Design and Original Score.
The only other film to win more than one Oscar was The Whale winning for Best Actor and Makeup/Hair.
My track record was 18/23 for a rate of 78.3% That's about par for my course historically. I was particularly pleased that I landed all three of the winners in the Shorts categories. I don't think I've ever done that.
I missed Actor (I had Butler) and Supporting Actress (Condon), Production Design, Costumes and Makeup/Hair.
Now that Oscar 2023 is in the books, it's time to move to speculating about films that make the TFF #50 lineup in earnest. One of the first things to look at will be those way-too-early Oscar '24 predictions that will appear in the next few days.
WILD LIFE TRAILER
One of the buzziest titles at Telluride last September was Wild Life. It's from the same crew-Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi- that did Free Solo and The Rescue. The film wasn't screened as a part of South By Southwest last night.
In conjunction with the SXSW screening and ahead of its public release comes a trailer which you can see here via YouTube:
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Was "Wild Life" buzzy? I spoke to both Jimmy and Elizabeth at TFF and the conversations convinced me to go see the Sunday night Wild Life screening. It was okay, but not up to the usual standards. The visuals were not up to the usual standards set by Chin/Vasarhelyi because of the use of a lot of archival film. The story was interesting, but seemed more a labor of a tribute to a friend than a powerful story.
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