SOME OTHER POST OSCAR NOTES
2023's edition of the Telluride Film Festival was much more Oscar connected than the 2022 SHOW. The 49th TFF had films that earned 17 total nominations and a single win for Best Adapted Screenplay for Sarah Polley's Women Talking.
The 50th version saw a dramatic jump in both nominations and wins. 35 total nominations and an a solid nine wins. For context the 35 nominations tied 2016 and 2021 TFFs for the years with the most nominations. The nine Oscar wins is the third largest number of Oscar wins for TFFs. 2016 saw TFF films win 12 Oscars and in 2013 TFF films won 10.
For other trivia about the TFF/Oscar connection take a look next week at my TFF Unofficial Oscar History page which has a link above.
SO EARLY, BUT...
Gold Derby is up with an incredibly early list of 20 films that they bill as "Early Contenders" for Oscar glory a year from now. That gives me an opportunity to begin looking at those films and see which ones could be TFF #51 contenders as well.
What to kook for? TFF history with a film's director, producer and/or distributor. Or sometimes it's a gut feeling irrespective of any of those characteristics.
At any rate...here are films from the list of 20 that seem like TFF possibilities:
The Apprentice Dir: Ali Abbasi.
Bird Dir: Andrea Arnold.
Blitz Dir: Steve McQueen. Distrib: Apple TV+
Conclave Dir: Edward Berger. Distrib: Focus Features
Maria Dir: Pablo Larrain (it probably also doesn't hurt for TFF chances that the cinematographer is Ed Lachman)
Megalopolis Dir: Frances Ford Coppola
Parthenope Dir: Paolo Sorrentino
The Piano Lesson Dir: Malcolm Washington. Distrib: Netflix
Queer Dir: Luca Guadagnino
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