CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS
Oppenheimer and Barbie dominated the Critics Choice Awards last night with the former winning eight trophies including Best Picture and Direction. Barbie won six.
Three TFF films earned awards with The Holdovers dominating in acting categories. Paul Giamatti won Best Actor, Da'Vine Joy Randolph won Best Supporting Actress and Domnic Sessa was named Best Young Actor. Emma Stone won Best Actress for Poor Things and Anatomy of a Fall was named Best Foreign Language Film.
The next big precursor is the announcement of BAFTA nominees on Thursday.
PRODUCERS GUILD NOMINATES
The Producers Guild of America named their 10 nominees for Best Film of the Year on Saturday. Four films that screened at TFF #50 made the list: Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, Poor Things and The Zone of Interest.
The other six films nominated were: American Fiction, Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Oppenheimer and Past Lives.
In a twist, the PGA's ten finalists also happen to be the ten films that MFB currently is predicting to be the ten nominees for the Best Picture Oscar (here's the current MTFB Best Picture list from Jan. 8th).
The PGA announces its winner on Feb. 25th.
MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SCORE, SONG AND MORE
Here's the latest MTFB Oscar Update. Today I'm updating the Original Song, Original Score, Animated Feature, Production Design, Visual Effects and Sound categories. These categories were last posted on Jan. 1st. 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 (3)
4) The Fire Inside/Flamin' Hot (4)
5) It Never Went Away/American Symphony (5)
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) Poor Things (4)
4) Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse (3)
5) The Zone of Interest (5)
Alternates: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Society of the Snow and The Boy and the Heron.
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) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (-)
Alternates: Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, Wish and Robot Dreams.
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
1) Barbie (1)
2) Poor Things (2)
3) Oppenheimer (4)
4) Killers of the Flower Moon (3)
5) Maestro (5)
Alternates: Asteroid City, The Color Purple and Napoleon
VISUAL EFFECTS
1) The Creator (1)
2) Poor Things (3)
3) Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3 (-)
4) Godzilla Minus One (2)
5) Society of the Snow (5)
Alternates: Spiderman Across the Spider-Verse, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and Napoleon.
SOUND
1) Oppenheimer (1)
2) Maestro (2)
3) Ferrari (4)
4) The Zone of Interest (3)
5) Killers of the Flower Moon (5)
Alternates: Barbie, Napoleon and The Killer.
THE FILM STAGE'S HOT 100
Last week The Film Stage posted its annual list of 100 "Most Anticipated" films for 2024. As usual, I parsed the list for titles that seem like a reasonable possibility to be at TFF #51. Last year I came up with a list of 25 films of which seven actually made the TFF #50 lineup:
El Conde, The Royal Hotel, Poor Things, All of Us Strangers, The Holdovers, Fallen Leaves and The Zone of Interest.
Last year's Film Stage list also included five films I din not put in my guesses that made it to T-ride: Fingernails, Anatomy of a Fall, Janet Planet, The Bikeriders and La Chimera.
So, with that as a preface, here are 18 films from the 2024 Film Stage list that could show up on Labor Day (with director listed in parentheses):
96) Maria (Larrain)
61) Holland, Michigan (Cave)
60) The History of Sound (Hermanus)
58) Emilia Perez (Audiard)
54) Queer (Guadagnino)
53) The Rivals of Amziah King (Patterson)
46) The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol (Chemet)
44) Kinds of Kindmess (Lanthimos)
39) Rumours (Maddin)
38) Bird (Arnold)
25) Anora (Baker)
19) Oh, Canada (Schrader)
14) Blitz (McQueen)
12) The Nickel Boys (Ross)
8) The End (Oppenheimer)
7) Mickey 7 (Joon Ho)
2) The Way of the Wind (Malick)
1) Megalopolis (Coppola)
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