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MTFB OSCAR UPDATE
Here's the latest MTFB Oscar Update. As we move to less than a month before nomination announcements I am consolidating categories for each post. Today I'm updating the Original Song, Original Score, Animated Feature, Production Design, Visual Effects and Sound categories. As usual TFF #50 films are in Bold. A film's previous position on the MTFB Oscar chart is listed in parentheses.
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
1) What Was I Made For/Barbie (1)
2) I'm Just Ken/Barbie (2)
3) Road to Freedom/Rustin (4)
4) The Fire Inside/Flamin' Hot (5)
5) It Never Went Away/American Symphony (-)
Dance the Night Away/Barbie, High Life/Flora and Sun and Superpower (I)/The Color Purple.
BEST SCORE
1) Oppenheimer (1)
2) Killers of the Flower Moon (2)
3) Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse (3)
4) Poor Things (5)
5) The Zone of Interest (4)
Alternates: The Boy and the Heron, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and Elemental.
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
1) Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse (1)
2) The Boy and the Heron (2)
3) Elemental (3)
4) Nimona (4)
5) Wish (5)
Alternates: Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem and Robot Dreams.
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
1) Barbie (2)
2) Poor Things (1)
3) Killers of the Flower Moon (4)
4) Oppenheimer (3)
5) Maestro (5)
Alternates: Asteroid City, The Color Purple and Napoleon
VISUAL EFFECTS
1) The Creator (1)
2) Godzilla Minus One (5)
3) Poor Things (4)
4) Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse (5)
5) Society of the Snow (-)
Alternates: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One.
SOUND
1) Oppenheimer (1)
2) Maestro (2)
3) The Zone of Interest (-)
4) Ferrari (3)
5) Killers of the Flower Moon (5)
Alternates: Barbie, Napoleon and The Killer.
UK FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AND TFF
The UK Film Critics Association revealed its nominees for film excellence last week. Six TFF films landed among the nominees but none in the Best Film category.
Here's the rundown of TFF nominees:
Saltburn (3): Best Direction, Actor and Supporting Actress.
The Holdovers (2): Best Actor and Supporting Actress
Anatomy of a Fall (2): Best Actress and Screenplay.
Poor Things (2): Best Actress and Supporting Actor.
The Zone of Interest (1): Best Direction
All of Us Strangers (1): Best Actor.
A COUPLE OF LISTS
Indiewire published its 50 Most Anticipated Films list this week and World of Reel has begun its running list of films rumored to play Cannes. Both lists can be instructive vis-a-vis some possible TFF selections.
What's interesting is that there is a lot of overlap between the two lists. So here's my quick parsing of them beginning with films that appear on both that I feel have some chance of being screened over Labor Day weekend:
From both lists:
Anora (dir: Sean Baker)
Bird (dir: Andrea Arnold
Blitz (dir: Steve McQueen)
The End (dir: Joshua Oppenheimer)
Hard Truths (dir: Mike Leigh)
Kinds of Kindness (dir: Yorgos Lanthimos)
Maria (dir: Pablo Larrain)
Megalopolis (dir: Francis Ford Coppola)
Oh, Canada (dir: Paul Schrader)
Polaris (dir: Lynne Ramsay)
Queer (dir: Luca Guadagnino)
Others from the Indiewire 50 Most Anticipated list:
The Actor (dir: Duke Johnson)
Holland, Michigan (dir: Mimi Cave)
Others from World of Reel's Cannes list:
The Way of the Wind (dir: Terrence Malick)
Emilia Perez (dir: Jacques Audiard)
Partenhope (dir: Paolo Sorrentino)
In the Hands of Dante (dir: Julian Schnabel)
The Apprentice (dir: Ali Abassi)
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