MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: PICTURE, DIRECTION AND ACTING
Here's MTFB's Oscar Update. As we move to within a month of nomination announcements I am consolidating categories for each post. Today I'm updating the Best Picture, Direction and Acting categories. As usual TFF #50 films are in Bold. A film's previous position on the MTFB Oscar chart is listed in parentheses.
BEST PICTURE
1) Oppenheimer (1)
2) Barbie (2)
3) Killers of the Flower Moon (4)
4) Poor Things (5)
5) The Holdovers (6)
6) American Fiction (3)
7) Maestro (7)
8) Past Lives (8)
9) Anatomy of a Fall (-)
10) The Zone of Interest (10)
Alternates: The Color Purple, Air and May December.
BEST DIRECTION
1) Christopher Nolan/Oppenheimer (1)
2) Martin Scorsese/Killer of the Flower Moon (2)
3) Yorgos Lanthimos/Poor Things (4)
4) Greta Gerwig/Barbie (3)
5) Jonathan Glazer/The Zone of Interest (-)
Alternates: Bradley Cooper/Maestro, Alexander Payne/The Holdovers and Celine Song/Past Lives.
BEST ACTRESS
1) Lily Gladstone/Killers of the Flower Moon (1)
2) Emma Stone/Poor Things (2)
3) Carey Mulligan/Maestro (3)
4) Sandra Huller/Anatomy of a Fall (4)
5) Margot Robbie/Barbie (-)
Alternates: Greta Lee/Past Lives, Annette Bening/Nyad and Fantasia Barrino/The Color Purple.
BEST ACTOR
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1) Bradley Cooper/Maestro (1)
2) Paul Giamatti/The Holdovers (3)
3) Cillian Murphy/Oppenheimer (2)
4) Jeffrey Wright/American Fiction (5)
5) Leonardo DiCaprio/ Killers of the Flower Moon (-)
Alternates: Colman Domingo/Rustin, Andrew Scott/All of Us Strangers and Barry Keoghan/Saltburn.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1) Da'Vine Joy Randolph/The Holdovers (1)
2) Danielle Brooks/The Color Purple (2)
3) Emily Blunt/Oppenheimer (3)
4) Jodie Foster/Nyad (5)
5) Julianne Moore/May December (4)
Alternates: America Ferrera/Barbie, Rosamund Pike/Saltburn and Sandra Huller/The Zone of Interest.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1) Ryan Gosling/Barbie (2)
2) Robert Downey, Jr./Oppenheimer (1)
3) Mark Ruffalo/Poor Things (3)
4) Robert DeNiro/Killers of the Flower Moon (4)
5) Charles Melton/May December (5)
Alternates: Willem Dafoe/Poor Things, Dominic Sessa/The Holdovers, Sterling K. Brown/American Fiction.
From these six categories, here's how TFF films are predicted:
Poor Things with four nominations and one other possibility: Picture, Direction, Actress (Stone) and Supporting actor (Ruffalo), Willem Dafoe is the added possibility for Supporting Actor.
The Holdovers with three nominations and two other possibilities: Picture, Actor (Giamatti), Supporting Actress (Randolph). The other two possibilities are Direction and Supporting Actor (Sessa).
The Zone of Interest with two nominations and an added possibility: Picture, Direction and a possible shot at Supporting Actress (Huller).
Anatomy of a Fall with two nominations: Picture and actress (Huller).
Nyad with one nomination and one other possibility. The nomination for Supporting Actress (Foster) and the possibility for Lead Actress (Bening).
Saltburn with no nominations but possible in two categories: Actor (Keoghan) and Supporting Actress (Pike).
All of Us Strangers possible for Actor (Scott).
Rustin possible for Actor(Colman).
Thursday's categories to be updated will be Screenplays, International Film, Documentary Feature, Cinematography and Editing.
THE OSCAR SHORT LISTS AND TFF
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the Oscar Shortlists for 10 categories on Thursday. Those 10 categories: Documentary Feature, Documentary Short, International Feature, Makeup and Hair Styling, Original Score, Original Song, Animated Short, Live Action Short, Sound and Visual Effects.
Making the short list in these ten categories means that a film is eligible for nomination in them.
Here's where TFF films landed on the various lists:
Poor Things, The Zone of Interest and American Symphony each made it to three of the lists.
Poor Things: Score, Makeup/Hair and Visual Effects.
The Zone of Interest: International Feature, Score and Sound.
American Symphony: Documentary Feature, Score and Song.
No other TFF films made multiple lists but 18 other TFF films were shortlisted in various categories. Most impressive was in the International Feature category which had nine TFF films listed. In addition to the above mentioned The Zone of Interest these films also made that shortlist:
The Monk and the Gun
The Promised Land
Fallen Leaves
The Taste of Things
The Teachers' Lounge
Godland (from TFF #49)
Perfect Days
Totem.
In addition to American Symphony three other TFF docs made that shortlist:
Beyond Utopia
Bobi Wine: Ghetto President (TFF #49)
Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (TFF #49)
In addition to Poor Things and American Symphony, two TFF films are also on the shortlist for Best Score:
The Holdovers
Saltburn
Three TFF films made the Documentary Shortlist:
If Dreams Were Lightning
The Last Repair Shop
Last Song from Kabul
And finally 27 made it to the Animated Short List and Strange Way of Life made it onto the Live Action Short list.
In all 27 TFF films are still alive in these 10 categories. Nominations are announced on Jan. 23rd.
SURPRISE: BENING TRIBUTE TO HAPPEN AFTER ALL
In a surprise move, Telluride's Silver Medallion that was to have been presented last Labor Day weekend to actress Annette Bening will, instead be presented at a special event in Los Angeles on January 6th.
Bening, like most actors, was unable to attend TFF #50 due to the SAG/Aftra Strike that was ongoing at the time of the fest.
The Hollywood Reporter, among other outlets, reports that the event will include a career retrospective complete with clips from Bening's films as well as moderation from her Nyad co-star Jodie Foster. Meg Ryan will present the Silver Medallion.
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