My First Stab at Oscar / Trailer for All of Us Strangers /International Submissions / Daddio Has a Home

MY FIRST STAB AT OSCAR

Here's my way-too-early first attempt to predict Oscar nominations at the end of the run of Telluride-Venice-Toronto.  TFF #50 films are in Bold.

BEST PICTURE

1) Oppenheimer

2) Killers of the Flower Moon

3) Poor Things

4) Barbie

5) Maestro

6) American Fiction

7) The Holdovers

8) Past Lives

9) The Zone of Interest

10) The Color Purple

Alternates: Anatomy of a Fall, Air, Saltburn and Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse.

BEST DIRECTION

1) Christopher Nolan/Oppenheimer

2) Martin Scorsese/Killer of the Flower Moon

3) Yorgos Lanthimos/Poor Things

4) Greta Gerwig/Barbie

5) Jonathan Glazer/The Zone of Interest

Alternates: Alexander Payne/The Holdovers, Bradley Cooper/Maestro and Justine Triet/Anatomy of a Fall.

BEST ACTRESS

1) Lily Gladstone/Killers of the Flower Moon

2) Emma Stone/Poor Things

3) Carrie Mulligan/Maestro

4) Annette Bening/Nyad

5) Sandra Huller/Anatomy of a Fall

Alternates: Margot Robbie/Barbie, Natalie Portman/May December and Fantasia Barino/The Color Purple

BEST ACTOR

1) Cillian Murphy/Oppenheimer

2) Colman Domingo/Rustin

3) Leonardo DiCaprio/Killers of the Flower Moon

4) Bradley Cooper/Maestro

5) Paul Giamatti/The Holdovers

Alternates: Jeffrey Wright/American Fiction, Andrew Scott/All of Us Strangers and Barry Keogahn/Saltburn.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Da'Vine Joy Randoplh/The Holdovers

2) Emily Blunt/Oppenheimer

3) Jodie Foster/Nyad

4) Julianne Moore/May December

5) Danielle Brooks/The Color Purple

Alternates: Penelope Cruz/Ferrari, America Ferrera/Barbie, Viola Davis/Air and Sandra Huller/The Zone of Interest.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Robert Downey, Jr./Oppenheimer

2) Mark Ruffalo/Poor Things

3) Ryan Gosling/Barbie

4) Robert DeNiro/Killers of the Flower Moon

5) Willem Dafoe/Poor Things

Alternates: John Magaro/Past Lives Dominic Sessa/The Holdovers, Sterling K. Brown/American Fiction.

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1) Barbie

2) The Holdovers

3) Past Lives

4) Maestro

5) Anatomy of a Fall

Alternates: Air, May December and Saltburn.

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1) Oppenheimer

2) Killers of the Flower Moon

3) Poor Things

4) American Fiction

5) The Zone of Interest

Alternates: All of Us Strangers, Origin, Dumb Money.

TRAILER FOR ALL OF US STRANGERS

Searchlight released a trailer for Andrew Haigh's All of Us Strangers last Thursday.   The release came just a bit too late for my regular post then so I have included it today.  All of Us Strangers stars Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal.  It is set for a limited release on Dec. 22nd.

INTERNATIONAL SUBMISSIONS

The United Kingdom chooses The Zone of Interest.

The United Kingdom has selected Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest as its choice to compete for the Best International Film Oscar.  The choice was not a surprise.  The film won the Grand Prize at Cannes last May (just behind Palme d'Or winner and fellow TFF #50 selection Anatomy of a Fall).

Zone is a very likely nominee and possible winner in this category.

Variety, among other outlets, reported the choice late last week.

France chooses The Taste of Things.  That was, perhaps, a bit of a surprise as Anatomy of a Fall might have been the more likely choice after having won the Palma d'Or at Cannes last May.  Vanity Fair, among other outlets reported the choice.

DADDIO HAS A HOME

Deadline has reported that Christy Hall's Daddio has been acquired for distribution by Sony Pictures Classics.  No word yet on release plans for the film that stars Sean Penn and Dakota Johnson.

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