Thursday, October 12, 2023

Awards Daily's Oscar Squad and Telluride / Maria Callas, Angelina and Pablo / Interviews: Huller, Vasarhelyi, McBaine and Moss

AWARDS DAILY'S OSCAR SQUADE AND TELLURIDE

Today I'm continuing my occasional look at some of the Oscar experts and their predictions as concerns films that played at TFF.  Today I have a rundown from the newly released first attempt from Awards Daily's Oscar Squad.  The "Squad" consists of AD Head Sasha Stone and 10 of the folks affiliated with the site.

The Squad predicts for13 categories including: Picture, Director, Actress, Actor, Supporting Acting, Screenplays, Editing, Cinematography, Production Design, Costumes and Animated Feature.

Here's the breakdown of their predictions for TFF #50 films:

Poor Things (9): Best Picture, Direction, Actress, Supporting Actor (Ruffalo), Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Cinematography, Costumes and Production Design.

The Holdovers (5):Best Picture, Actor, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay.

Anatomy of a Fall (4): Best Picture, Actress, Original Screenplay, Editing.

The Zone of Interest (3): Best Picture, Direction, Adapted Screenplay.

Rustin (1): Best Actor,

Nyad (1): Best Supporting Actress.

Saltburn (1): Best Cinematography.

A total of 24 nominations in these categories.


VASARHELYI TALKS NYAD

Gold Derby's Bill McCuddy has the interview with Nyad co-director Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi from the opening night of The Hamptons International Film Festival.


MARIA CALLAS, ANGELINA AND PABLO




We have a first look at a couple of photos of Angelina Jolie as opera superstar Maria Callas,  Per Indiewire the film has a SAG/Aftra interim agreement and is set to begin production this week.  An eight week shoot is planned.

I would not be surprised to see this pop up at Venice next fall and then make an appearance at TFF #51.



INTERVIEWS:

From Indiewire: Sandra Huller on both anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest.



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