Thursday, December 7, 2023

National Board of Review Announces Film Superlatives / Independent Spirit Nominees Announced / MTFB Oscar Update: Best Picture and Direction (Plus First Predix for International and Documentary Features) / New Trailer and One Sheet for The Zone of Interest / International Trailer for All of Us Strangers / Interviews and Profiles: Giamatti, Bening, Keoghan and More

NBR ANNOUNCES FILM SUPERLATIVES


The National Board of Review announced its choices for film excellence for the year yesterday.  TFF films that made a mark in these categories:

The Holdovers: Paul Giamatti/Best Actor, Da'Vine Joy Randolph/Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay.

Poor Things: Mark Ruffalo/Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay.

Anatomy of a Fall: Best International Feature.

From the 10 Best Films list: The Holdovers and Poor Things.
From the 5 Best International Features list (all five played Telluride): La Chimaera, Fallen Leaves, The Teachers' Lounge, Totem and The Zone of Interest.
From the 10 Best Independent Films list: All of Us Strangers.
From the 5 Best Documentaries list: The Pigeon Tunnel.

Killers of the Flower Moon was named Best Film of the Year with Martin Scorsese named Best Director.




INDEPENDENT SPIRIT NOMINEES ANNOUNCED




Seven Telluride Films garnered 11 Independent Spirit Award nominations.  Those nominees were announced last Tuesday morning.

The T-ride titles earning nominations were:

The Holdovers (4): Best Supporting Performance: Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Breakthrough Performance: Dominic Sessa, Screenplay and Cinematography.

All of Us Strangers (3): Best Feature, Direction and Lead Performance: Andrew Scott.

And four TFF films were nominated for Best International Feature: Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest, Godland and Totem.

May December, Past Lives and American Fiction tied for the highest total of five nominations.



MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: BEST PICTURE AND DIRECTION PLUS FIRST PREDIX FOR INTERNATIONAL FEATURE AND DOC FEATURE

OSCAR UPDATE: BEST PICTURE AND DIRECTION



Here's MTFB's  Oscar Update.  Today I'm updating the Best Picture and Direction categories.  The last prediction for these two categories were posted on Nov. 23rd.  In addition, I am including my first guesses at nominees for Best Documentary and Best International Feature.  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 (3)
3) American Fiction (6)
4) Killers of the Flower Moon (2)
5) Poor Things (4)
6) The Holdovers (5)
7) Maestro (7)
8) Past Lives (9)
9) The Color Purple (8)
10) The Zone of Interest (10)

Alternates:  Anatomy of a Fall, May December and Air.


BEST DIRECTION




1) Christopher Nolan/Oppenheimer (1)
2) Martin Scorsese/Killer of the Flower Moon (2)
3) Greta Gerwig/Barbie (3)
4) Yorgos Lanthimos/Poor Things (4)
5) Bradley Cooper/Maestro (-)

Alternates: Cord Jefferson/American Fiction, Jonathan Glazer/The Zone of Interest and Alexander Payne/The Holdovers


BEST DOCUMENTARY 




1) American Symphony
2) 20 Days in Mariupol
3) Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
4) Beyond Utopia
5) Four Daughters

Alternates: Kokomo City, Silver Dollar Road and Anselm.



BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE




1) The Zone of Interest
2) The Taste of Things
3) The Teachers' Lounge
4) Perfect Days
5) Society of the Snow

Alternates: Fallen Leaves, Shayda, 20 Days in Mariupol


 NEW TRAILER AND ONE SHEET FOR THE ZONE OF INTEREST

A24 has released a new trailer and one sheet for Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest.  Here's the trailer via YouTube:


And the new one sheet:


INTERNATIONAL TRAILER FOR ALL OF US STRANGERS




INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES: GIAMATTI, BENING, KEOGAHN AND MORE











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