We Turn the Page / Early Line on Oscar Best Picture Nominees / Character Posters from Blue Moon

WE TURN THE PAGE

We've made the run of post-festival ratings with the reportage of results from my annual poll of the People, the Professionals and then the Composite of both together.  Hamnet did very, very well...as it should.  So, as has become the custom here at MTFB, we turn the page to what happens now in awards season to the films that made up the TFF #52 lineup.

EARLY LINE ON OSCAR BEST PICTURE NOMINEES

I did quick inventory of  a variety of Oscar prediction websites in search of an early line on the Best Picture competition.  The quick line looks like this:

1) Hamnet

2) One Battle After Another

3) Sinners

4) Sentimental Value

5) A House of Dynamite

A few other TFF #52 films could also be in play such as The Secret Agent, It Was Just an Accident, Bugonia and Jay Kelly.

This far out, however, some contenders haven't been considered as they haven't been seen by anyone yet. That list of films would include: Wicked: For Good, Avatar: Fire and Glass, Marty Supreme and Is This Thing On?.

Additionally Gold Derby has assessed the early race this way:

1) Hamnet

2) Sinners

3) One Battle after Another

4) Sentimental Value

5) Wicked: For Good

6) Marty Supreme

7) A House of Dynamite

8) Jay Kelly

9) Bugonia

10) It Was Just an Accident

Gold Derby's complete list of Best Picture predictions is linked here.

Finally, checking in some specific Oscar prognosticators, here's where Scott Feinberg of  The Hollywood Reporter is on Best Picture:

Frontrunners:

1) Hamnet (Focus)

2) Sentimental Value (Neon)

3) Sinners (Warner Bros.)

4) A House of Dynamite (Netflix)

5) The Secret Agent (Neon)

6) Jay Kelly (Netflix)

7) It Was Just An Accident (Neon)

8) Bugonia (Focus)

9) Train Dreams (Netflix)

10) Roofman (Paramount)

And again, to point out, Feinberg does not add films to the list until he's actually seen them.  At the time of this post that included One Battle After Another among others.

Here's the link to Feinberg's complete list.

CHARACTER POSTERS FROM BLUE MOON

Sony Pictures Classics released character posters from Richard Linklater's Blue Moon featuring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Andrew Scott and Bobby Canavale:  Here they are:

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