OSCAR 2024
A memorable Oscar night last night.
Telluride 2023 films pick up an astonishing nine Oscar wins. That was above what I was predicting. The Oscars went to:
Poor Things (4): Best Actress (Emma Stone), Production Design, Costumes and Makeup/Hair.
The Zone of Interest (2): Best International Film and Sound.
The Holdovers (1): Best Supporting Actress (Da'Vine Joy Randolph).
Anatomy of a Fall (1): Best Original Screenplay.
The Last Repair Shop (1): Best Documentary Short.
My prediction success: 19 of 23 for a rate of 82.6 %. That's a bit higher than my 78.5% rate since 2014. I missed Best Actress, Best Sound, Best Animated Feature and Best Visual Effects.
I was pleasantly surprised to get all of the Short subject winners right. For the first time ever, I believe, in each of the four categories that I picked incorrectly, the film/performer I had as the potential upset was, in fact, the winner.
Over at Gold Derby, though, 19/23 is nothing to get snooty about. I finished 891st out of 11,034 participants.
19/23, though, was better all but one Gold Derby expert (Nikki Novak from Fandango). I was tied with Shawn Edwards, Susan King and Pete Hammond. I was ahead of experts from Variety, Indiewire, Next Best Picture, ABC, USA Today, People and Awards Daily. I'm thinking of petitioning Gold Derby to become one of their expert contributors.
TURN THE PAGE
And now, as we do every year at this time, we turn our attention in a more concentrated fashion to speculation and prediction about the lineup possibilities for the Telluride Film Festival. Over the next few weeks, I'll be scouring media for early Oscar 2025 predictions for clues as well as the Cannes lineup, set to be revealed, we believe, on April 11th. That should give us some notions about what to expect over Labor Day weekend.
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