Oscar Noms and TFF #51

OSCAR NOMS AND TFF #51

Good Morning...Oscar nominations are in.  My correct number of picks for each category is to the right of the category in parentheses.  TFF #51 films/performers in Bold.

BEST PICTURE (8/10)

Conclave

Emilia Perez

The Brutalist

Anora

A Complete Unknown

Wicked

Dune: Part Two

The Substance

Nickel Boys

I'm Still Here

BEST DIRECTION (4/5)

Brady Corbet/The Brutalist

Sean Baker/Anora

Jacques Audiard/Emilia Perez

Coralie Fargeat/The Substance

James Mangold/ A Complete Unknown

BEST ACTRESS (5/5)

Demi Moore/The Substance

Mikey Madison/Anora

Karla Sofia Gascon/Emilia Perez

Cynthia Erivo/Wicked

Fernanda Torres/I'm Still Here

BEST ACTOR (4/5)

Adrien Brody/The Brutalist

Ralph Fiennes/Conclave

Timothee Chalamet/A Complete Unknown

Colman Domingo/Sing Sing

Sebastian Stan/The Apprentice

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (4/5)

Zoe Saldana/Emilia Perez

Ariana Grande/Wicked

Isabella Rossellini/Conclave

Felicity Jones/The Brutalist

Monica Barbaro/A Complete Unknown

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (5/5)

Kieran Culkin/A Real Pain

Edward Norton/ A Complete Unknown

Guy Pearce/The Brutalist

Yura/Borisov/Anora

Jeremy Strong/The Apprentice

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (5/5)

Conclave

Emilia Perez

Nickel Boys

A Complete Unknown

Sing Sing

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (5/5)

Anora

The Brutalist

A Real Pain

The Substance

September 5

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE (4/5)

Emilia Perez

I'm Still Here

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

The Girl with the Needle

Flow

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE (5/5)

The Wild Robot

Flow

Inside Out 2

Wallace and Gromet: Vengeance Most Fowl

Memoir of a Snail

BEST DOCUMNETARY FEATURE (4/5)

No Other Land

Sugarcane

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Black Box Diaries

Porcelain Wars

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (4/5)

The Brutalist

Nosferatu

Dune: Part Two

Maria

Emilia Perez

BEST EDITING (4/5)

Conclave

Anora

Emilia Perez

The Brutalist

Wicked

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN (5/5)

Wicked

The Brutalist

Dune: Part Two

Nosferatu

Conclave

BEST SCORE (4/5)

The Brutalist

Conclave

Emilia Perez

The Wild Robot

Wicked

BEST SONG (3/5)

El Mal/Emilia Perez

Mi Camino/Emilia Perez

The Journey/The Six Triple Eight

Like a Bird/Sing Sing

Never Too Late/Never Too Late

BEST COSTUMES (4/5)

Wicked

Nosferatu

Conclave

A Complete Unknown

Gladiator II

BEST MAKEUP/HAIR (5/5)

The Substance

Wicked

Nosferatu

Emilia Perez

A Different Man

BEST SOUND (4/5)

Dune: Part Two

Wicked

A Complete Unknown

Emilia Perez

The Wild Robot

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS (4/5)

Dune: Part Two

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Wicked

Better Man

Alien:Romulus

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT (2/5)

The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

Anuja

I Am Not a Robot

A Lien

The Last Ranger

BEST ANIMATED SHORT (3/5)

Wander to Wonder

Beautiful Men

Yuck!

In the Shadow of the Cypress

Magic Candies

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT (2/5)

I'm Ready Warden

Incident

Death by Numbers

The Only Girl in the Orchestra

Instruments of a Beating

Stuff:

13 TFF #51 films earn 40 nominations...that's a record.  Plus one from TFF #50 as Incident gets nominated for Best Documentary Short.

Emilia Perez (13)

Conclave (8)

Anora (6)

Two each for:

Nickel Boys

A Real Pain

The Apprentice

One each for:

September 5

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Memoir of a Snail

No Other Land

Maria

Better Man

Beautiful Men

***Emilia Perez leads all films with 13 nominations and sets a record for an International film.

***For the first time ever Telluride had at least one film nominated in every feature category.

***Biggest Stunner: I'm Still Here in Best Picture.

***MTFB goes 90/105 in feature categories-85.7%.  7/15 in Short subjects-46.7%.  97/120 overall-80.8%

More on Monday...have a super weekend!

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