OSCAR UPDATE: LEAD ACTING
Here's your Oscar Update for today's post. This is a check on predicted nominees for the Lead Acting categories. They were last posted here on Oct. 23rd. Previous positions on the MTFB Oscar Update is listed to the right in parentheses. As always TFF films are Bold.
BEST ACTRESS
1) Emma Stone/Poor Things (1)
2) Lily Gladstone/Killers of the Flower Moon (2)
3) Carey Mulligan/Maestro (3)
4) Margot Robbie/Barbie (4)
5) Annette Bening/Nyad (5)
Alternates: Sandra Huller/Anatomy of a Fall, Natalie Portman/May December and Fantasia Barrino/The Color Purple
BEST ACTOR
1) Bradley Cooper/Maestro (2)
2) Cillian Murphy/Oppenheimer (1)
3) Paul Giamatti/The Holdovers (4)
4) Colman Domingo/Rustin (3)
5) Leonardo DiCaprio/Killers of the Flower Moon (5)
Alternates: Jeffrey Wright/American Fiction, Andrew Scott/All of Us Strangers and Barry Keoghan/Saltburn.
ACADEMY CONVERSATION FOR NYAD
From AMPAS and YouTube here is an Academy Conversation with Nyad directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin:
TFF FILMS AND CRITICS CHOICE DOC AWARDS
Two TFF #50 films scored wins last night at the Critics Choice Documentary Awards. Matt Heineman's American Symphony, which focuses on the lives of Jon Batiste and Suleika Jaouad, was winner for Best Musical Doc and Best Score. The Short Doc winner also came from Telluride and that was Kris Bowers and Ben Proudfoot's The Last Repair Shop.
The big winner of the night was Davis Guggenheim's Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie. That film nabbed five awards including Best Documentary Feature.
MAGNOLIA PICTURES ACQUIRES FOOD INC. 2
News this past week that TFF #50 entrant Food Inc. 2 has been acquired for distribution by Magnolia Pictures. The documentary is a sequel to 2008's Oscar nominated doc Food Inc. The director of the original film, Robert Kenner is joined for the sequel by co-director Melissa Robledo.
TRAILERS: PERFECT DAYS AND THEY SHOT THE PIANO PLAYER
From YouTube:
PERFECT DAYS
THEY SHOT THE PIANO PLAYER
NEW CLIP FROM SALTBURN
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2 comments:
Mulligan’s first name is spelled “Carey” and not “Carrie.”
Thanks for the catch. This has been corrected.
MP
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