Mark Johnson's (The Awards Alchemist) First Oscar Stab (and Which Could Be at Telluride) / Titles and Rumors...AND I MEAN RUMORS!

MARK JOHNSON'S (THE AWARDS ALCHEMIST) FIRST OSCAR STAB (AND WHICH OF THEM COULD BE AT TELLURIDE)

Mark Johnson who is housed at Awards Watch as "The Awards Alchemist" has posted his first look at predicting Oscar nominees for Best Picture for the 2026 run of films.  MTFB analyzes his list and names "possible" TFF #53 selections.  Today I'll also add for each, the biggest reason I think each of them could play TFF.  Here's what that looks like:

*Wild Horse Nine (dir: McDonagh)...Best hint it plays: From Searchlight.

*Digger (dir:Inarritu)...Hint: Inarritu ( a reminder, this film has been reported to not play ANY fall fest).

*Saturn Return (dir: Kwedar)...Hint: From Netflix.

*Fjord (dir: Munigu) Hint: Cannes Selection and it's from NEON.

*The Social Reckoning (dir: Sorkin) Hint: I'm wishful thinking here.  If it means anything, three major cast members have been recent TFF attendees: Jeremy Strong, Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White.

*Fatherland (was titled 1949 for a long time) (dir: Pawlikowski) Hint: Cannes Selection, Pawlikoski

and it's from MUBI.

*All of a Sudden (dir: Hamaguchi) Hint: Cannes Selection and from NEON.

*Jack of Spades (dir: J. Coen) Hint: Coen. sort of...mostly me wishing again.

*Bucking Fastard (dir: Herzog) Hint: Herzog.

*Narnia: The Magician's Nephew (dir: Gerwig) Hints: Gerwig  and it's from Netflix.

*Behemoth! (dir: Gilroy) Hint: from Searchlight.

*Untitled Jesse Eisenberg Musical (dir: Eisenberg) Hints: Eisenberg and from A24.

*I Am Rocky (dir: Farrelly) Hint: From Amazon-MGM.

*Artificial (dir: Guadagnino) Hints: Guadagnino and from Amazon-MGM

*A Long Winter (dir: Haigh) Hints; Haigh and from MUBI.

*Paper Tiger (dir: Gray) Hints: Cannes Selection, Gray and from NEON.

*Being Heumann (dir: Heder) Hint: from Apple.

*Clarissa (dir: Esiri and Esiri) hint: from NEON.

*Tony (dir: Johnson) Hint: from A24.

*Parallel Tales (dir: Farhadi) Hints: Cannes Selectionand Farhadi.

*Bitter Christmas (dir: Almodovar) Hints: Cannes Selection, Almodovar and it's from SPC.

Here's the link to the complete list from Mark at Awards Watch.

https://awardswatch.com/2027-oscar-predictions-the-awards-alchemists-first-look-at-the-99th-academy-awards/

TITLES AND RUMORS...AND I MEAN RUMORS!

Spooking around the interwebs seeing fall film/Telluride speculation that mentions:

Danny Boyle's Ink

Andrew Haigh's A Long Winter

Ink is supposedly a 2027 release...sooo....

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