Thursday, November 21, 2024

MTFB Oscar Update: Lead Acting / New Trailer for The Piano Lesson / Zurawski v. Texas Has International Sales Rep / TFF #51 Films Winning Awards / Interviews and Profiles for Saturday Night, Conclave and Piece by Piece

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: LEAD ACTING




I'm updating the Lead Acting categories today.  These categories were last updated on Nov. 6th.  An actor's previous position is indicated in (parentheses).  TFF #51 films are in Bold. 


BEST ACTRESS




1) Mikey Madison/Anora (1)
2) Angelina Jolie/Maria (2)
3) Karla Sofia Gascon/Emilia Perez (3)
4) Nicole Kidman/Babygirl (4)
5) Saoirse Ronan/The Outrun (5)

Others: Marianne Jean-Baptiste/Hard Truths, Demi Moore/The Substance and Tilda Swinton/The Room Next Door.


BEST ACTOR

1) Ralph Fiennes/Conclave (2)
2) Adrien Brody/The Brutalist (1)
3) Colman Domingo/Sing Sing (3)
4) Timothee Chalamet/A Complete Unknown (4)
5) Daniel Craig/Queer (5)

Others: Paul Mescal/Gladiator II, Sebastian Stan/The Apprentice and Jesse Eisenberg/A Real Pain.



NEW TRAILER FOR THE PIANO LESSON

Netflix released a new trailer for Malcom Washington's The Piano Lesson on Tuesday.  Here it is via YouTube: 



The Piano Lesson is already in limited release.



ZURAWSKI V. TEXAS HAS INETRNATIONAL SALES REP (BUT WHY NO DOMESTIC DISTRIBUTION???)

Scree Daily reported this week that Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault's powerful documentary Zurawski v. Texas has had its international sales rights acquired by Together Films.  That comes as the multi-award winning film still lacks domestic distribution.  And I want to know why.

The film has won awards from the following film fests: Hamptons, Heartland (Indianapolis), Mill Valley, Montclair, Philadelphia, Sant Fe and others and has had a number of special screening both live and virtually.

Here is an interview from Together Films for the Academy Conversations series via YouTube:





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Monday, November 18, 2024

MTFB Oscar Update: Best Picture and Direction / Poster and Trailer for Better Man / Making of and Behind the Scenes: Anora, Emilia Perez and Conclave / Interviews and Profiles: Rasoulof, Kapadia and More

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: BEST PICTURE AND DIRECTION



Here are updated nomination predictions for the Best Picture and Direction for the 97th Academy Awards.  These categories were last predicted on Nov. 4th.  A film's or director's previous rank appears to the right of their names in parentheses.  TFF #51 actors/films are in Bold. 


BEST PICTURE




1) Anora (1)
2) Conclave (2)
3) Emilia Perez (3)
4) The Brutalist (4)
5) Dune Part Two (5)
6) Wicked (10)
7) Gladiator II (6)
8) Sing Sing (9)
9) A Real Pain (7)
10) Blitz (-)

Others: A Complete Unknown, September 5 and The Room Next Door.


BEST DIRECTION




1) Sean Baker/Anora (2)
2) Brady Corbet/The Brutalist (1)
3) Edward Berger/Conclave (4)
4) Jacques Audiard/Emilia Perez (3)
5) Denis Villenueve/Dune Part Two (-)

Others: Ridley Scott/Gladiator II, RaMell Ross/Nickel Boys and James Mangold/A Complete Unknown


BETTER MAN POSTER AND TRAILER

Here they are from director Michael Gracey, the film about musician Robbie Williams:






MAKING OF AND BEHIND THE SCENES

For Anora from The Hollywood Reporter.





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Thursday, November 14, 2024

MTFB Oscar Update: Screenplays / Will and Harper Tops Critics' Choice / Interviews and Profiles: Deadwyler, Keogahn and More

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SCREENPLAYS



Here are updated nomination predictions for the Screenplay categories for the 97th Academy Awards.  These categories were last predicted on Oct. 31st.  An film's previous rank appears to the right of their names in parentheses.  TFF #51 actors/films are in Bold.

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY




1) Conclave (1)
2) Emilia Perez (2)
3) Sing Sing (3)
4) Nickel Boys (4)
5) The Room Next Door (-)

Others: Dune Part Two, A Complete Unknown and Inside Out 2.


BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY




1) Anora (1)
2) The Brutalist (2)
3) A Real Pain (3)
4) September 5 (4)
5) Saturday Night (5)

Others: The Seed of the Sacred Fig, The Substance and Blitz.

Best Picture nomination predictions will be updated on Monday.


HARPER AND WILL TOP CRITIC'S CHOICE




The Critics' Choice Awards for documentaries were announce this week and TFF #51 film Will and Harper tied with Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story as Best Documentary feature for the year.  Will and Harper finished in the #2 spot in this year's MTFB People's poll just behind Zurawski v. Texas.



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Monday, November 11, 2024

MTFB Oscar Update: Supporting Acting / TFF Films and the Best of the 2020's / Awards for TFF Films / Interviews and Profiles: Washington and Arnold

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SUPPORTING ACTING



Here are updated nomination predictions for the Supporting Acting categories for the 97th Academy Awards.  These categories were last predicted on Oct. 28th.  An actor's previous rank appears to the right of their names in parentheses.  TFF #51 actors/films are in Bold.
 Deadwyler
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Zoe Saldana/Emilia Perez (1)
2) Danielle Deadwyler/The Piano Lesson (2)
3) Saoirse Ronan/Blitz (4)
4) Isabella Rossellini/Conclave (3)
5) Felicity Jones/The Brutalist (5)

Others: Selena Gomez/Emilia Perez, Ariana Grande/Wicked and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor/Nickel Boys.


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR




1) Keiran Culkin/A Real Pain (1)
2) Denzel Washington/Gladiator II (2)
3) Guy Pearce/The Brutalist (3)
4) Clarence Maclin/Sing Sing (4)
5) Stanley Tucci/Conclave (5)

Others: John Magaro/September 5, Jeremy Strong/The Apprentice and Yura Borisov/Anora.


TFF FILMS AND THE BEST OF THE HALF DECADE




Jordan Ruimy/World of Reel invited me and more than one hundred other "critics" to name a  list of the Best films of the first half of the 2020's.  The results were posted Saturday.  Among the top twenty were eight that played at one of the decade's TFFs.  They were: TAR, The Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall, The Power of the Dog, Poor Things, Anora, Aftersun and All of Us Strangers. 

Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer topped the list.  My List for the poll was: Nomadland, Oppenheimer, Poor Things, The Power of the Dog and The Zone of Interest.



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Wednesday, November 6, 2024

MTFB Oscar Update: Lead Acting / European Film Awards Nominations / British Independent Film Awards Nominations / Trailer for The End /Interviews and Profiles : Saldana, Eisenberg and More

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: LEAD ACTING



I'm updating the Lead Acting categories today.  These categories were last updated on Oct. 24th.  An actor's previous position is indicated in (parentheses).  TFF #51 films are in Bold. 

BEST ACTRESS


1) Mikey Madison/Anora
2) Angelina Jolie/Maria
3) Karla Sofia Gascon/Emilia Perez
4) Saoirse Ronan/The Outrun
5) Nicole Kidman/Babygirl

Others: Demi Moore/The Substance, Marianne Jean-Baptiste/Hard Truths and Tilda Swinton/The Room Next Door.


BEST ACTOR




1) Adrien Brody/The Brutalist
2) Ralph Fiennes/Conclave
3) Colman Domingo/Sing Sing
4) Timothee Chalamet/A Complete Unknown
5) Daniel Craig/Queer

Others: Paul Mescal/Gladiator II, Sebastian Stan/The Apprentice and Jesse Eisenberg/A Real Pain.


TFF NOMINATIONS FOR EFA AND BIFA

TFF films were well represented in films nominated for the European Film Awards announced earlier this week.




Emilia Perez (4): Best European Film, Direction, Actress (Gascon), Screenwriter.

The Seed of the Sacred Fig (3): Best European Film, Direction, Screenwriter.

No Other Land (2): Best European Film, Documentary.

They Shot the Piano Player (TFF #50) (2): Best European Feature, Animated Feature.

Bird (2) Best Direction, Actor (Rogowski).

Santosh (1) Best Discovery

Conclave (1): Best Actor (Fiennes).


TFF films also were recognized with nominations for the British Independent Film Awards:




The Outrun (9): Best British Independent Film, Direction, Lead Performance (Ronan), Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Makeup/Hair, Original Music and Sound. 

Bird (7): Best Direction, Supporting Performance (Rogowski and Keoghan), Breakthrough Performance (Adams), Casting, Editing and Original Music.

Santosh (4): Best British Independent Film, Screenplay, Breakthrough Producer and Debut Screenwriter.

All We Imagine as Light (1): Best Independent International Film.

Anora (1): Best Independent International Film.

La Chimera (from TFF #50) (1): Best Independent International Film.

No Other Land (1): Best Independent International Film.

The Seed of the Sacred Fig (1): Best Independent International Film.


TRAILER FOR THE END

From NEON via YouTube:




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Monday, November 4, 2024

MTFB Oscar Update: Best Picture and Direction / Trailers and Clips: Conclave and Emilia Perez / TFF Films Awarded / Interviews and Profiles

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: BEST PICTURE AND DIRECTION


Here are updated nomination predictions for the Best Picture and Direction for the 97th Academy Awards.  These categories were last predicted on Oct. 21st.  A film's or director's previous rank appears to the right of their names in parentheses.  TFF #51 actors/films are in Bold. 


BEST PICTURE



1) Anora (1)
2) Conclave (2)
3) Emilia Perez (4)
4) The Brutalist (3)
5) Dune Part Two (5)
6) Gladiator II (6)
7) A Real Pain (10)
8) A Complete Unknown (-)
9) Sing Sing (7)
10) Wicked (-)

Others: Blitz, September 5 and Nickel Boys.


BEST DIRECTION

1) Brady Corbet/The Brutalist (1)
2) Sean Baker/Anora (2)
3) Jacques Audiard/Emilia Perez (3)
4) Edward Berger/Conclave (4)
5) Ridley Scott/Gladiator II (-)

Others: Denis Villenueve/Dune Part Two, James Mangold/A Complete Unknown and RaMell Ross/Nickel Boys.


***BEHIND THE SCENES OF CONCLAVE



***SELENA GOMEZ SINGS MI CAMINO FROM EMILIA PEREZ



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