MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SUPPORTING ACTING, ORIGINAL SCORE AND SONG
Here's your Oscar Update for today's post. This is a check on predicted nominees for the Supporting Acting categories. They were last posted here on Nov. 30th. Previous positions on the MTFB Oscar Update is listed to the right in parentheses. Additionally, I have included my first predicitons in the categories of Best Original Song and Best Score. As always TFF films are Bold.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1) Da'Vine Joy Randoplh/The Holdovers (1)
2) Danielle Brooks/The Color Purple (3)
3) Emily Blunt/Oppenheimer (2)
4) Julianne Moore/May December (5)
5) Jodie Foster/Nyad (4)
Alternates:Taraji P. Henson/The Color Purple, Rosamund Pike/Saltburn and America Ferrera/Barbie
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1) Robert Downey, Jr./Oppenheimer (2)
2) Ryan Gosling/Barbie (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.
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
1) What Was I Made For/Barbie
2) I'm Just Ken/Barbie
3) This Wish/Wish
4) Road to Freedom/Rustin
5) The Fire Inside/Flamin' Hot
Alternates: It Never Went Away/American Symphony, Dance the Night Away/Barbie and For the First Time/The Little Mermaid.
BEST SCORE
1) Oppenheimer
2) Killers of the Flower Moon
3) Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse
4) The Zone of Interest
5) Poor Things
Alternates: Society of the Snow, Elemental and Asteroid City.
CRITICS' CHOICE NOMINEES ANNOUNCED
The Critics' Choice Awards nominees for film were announced yesterday. Poor Things was the leader among TFF films with 13 nominations tying Oppenheimer for the second most nominations. Barbie was the leader overall with a staggering 18 nominations. The Holdovers showed very strong with eight nominations. In all TFF films earned 34 nominations for 10 films.
Here's The TFF breakdown:
Poor Things (13): Best Picture, Best Comedy Film, Direction, Actress (Stone), Supporting Actor (Ruffalo), Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Costumes, Makeup/Hair, Score and Visual Effects.
The Holdovers (8): Best Picture, Best Comedy, Direction, Actor (Giamatti), Supporting Actress (Randolph), Young Actor (Sessa), Ensemble, Original Screenplay.
Anatomy of a Fall (3): Best Foreign Language Film, Actress (Huller), Young Actor (Graner).
Saltburn (3): Best Picture, Cinematography, Production Design.
Rustin (2): Best Actor (Domingo), Song.
Nyad (1): Best Supporting Actress (Foster).
All of Us Strangers (1): Best Adapted Screenplay.
Perfect Days (1): Best Foreign Language Film.
The Taste of Things (1): Best Foreign Language Film.
The Zone of Interest (1): Best Foreign Language Film.
INDIEWIRE'S POLL OF CRITICS SELECT THE 50 BEST FILMS OF 2023
On Wednesday Indiewire posted their poll of 158 critics and their choices for the 50 Best Films of 2023. 11 TFF films landed on the list. They were:
47) La Chimera
45) Saltburn
25) Godland
24) The Taste of Things
22) Perfect Days
13) All of Us Strangers
11) Fallen Leaves
9) The Holdovers
7) Anatomy of a Fall
6) The Zone of Interest
3) Poor Things
Oppenheimer was at #2 and the topper was Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon.
THE PLAYLIST'S TOP 21 FILMS FOR 2023 AND TFF
Meanwhile, The Playlist posted their top 21 films for the year on Tuesday. Sven TFF films made that list:
17) The Taste of Things
13) The Holdovers
11) Perfect Days
9) All of Us Strangers
5) Anatomy of a fall
2) Poor Things
1) The Zone of Interest
Honorable Mentions included: El Conde and The Royal Hotel.
A CONVERSATION WITH THE HOLDOVERS
MTFB acquaintance Tomris Lafflly lead a post-screening conversation in New York on Monday night for The Holdovers. In attendance for the Q+A were Alexander Payne, Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa. Here's that via YouTube and Next Best Picture:
THREE TFF DOCS PGA NOMINATED
Three documentaries from TFF #50 and TFF #49 made the list of non-fiction films nominated by the Producers Guild of America as the outstanding doc for 2023.
Matthew Heineman's American Symphony and Madeleine Gavin's Beyond Utopia from TFF #50 were among the six docs announced by the PGA on Tuesday. Also nominated from TFF #49 was Anton Corbijn's Squaring the Circle: The Story of Hipgnosis.
The PGA documentary winner will be announced on Feb. 25th.
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