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MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SUPPOTING ACTING, SCORE, SONG, COSTUMES

Here's your update on the Supporting Acting races as well as Score, Song and Costumes.  These predictions were last updated on Nov. 22nd.  TFF #48 performances/films are indicated in Bold and their previous position in my predictions are indicated to the right in parentheses.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Caitriona Balfe/Belfast (1)

2) Kristen Dunst/The Power of the Dog (2)

3) Aujunue Ellis/King Richard (3)

4) Ruth Negga/Passing (4)

5) Anne Dowd/Mass (Alt.)

Alternates: Judi Dench/Belfast and Adriana DeBose/West Side Story.  Note: Look out for up and comer Rita Moreno from West Side Story

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Ciaran Hinds/Belfast (1)

2) Kodi Smit-McPhee/The Power of the Dog (5)

3) J. K. SImmons/Being the Ricardos (3)

4) Jamie Dornan/Belfast (4)

5) Jared Leto/House of Gucci (Alt.)

Alternates: Jon Bernthal/King Richard and Ben Affleck/The Tender Bar

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

1) Dune (1)

2) The Power of the Dog (2)

3) Spencer (3)

4) The French Dispatch (4)

5) Don't Look Up (5)

Alternates: Nightmare Alley and The Tragedy of Macbeth

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

1) Be Alive/King Richard (1)

2) Not Time to Die/No Time to Die (2)

3) Down to Joy/Belfast (3)

4) Guns Go Bang/The Harder They Fall (4)

5) Just Look Up/Don't Look Up (New)

Alternates:  So May We Start/Annette and Columbia Mi Encanto/Encanto

BEST COSTUME

1) Dune (2)

2) Cruella (1)

3) West Side Story (Alt.)

4) Spencer (3)

5) Nightmare Alley (4)

Alternates: Being the Ricardos and The French Dispatch

INTERVIEWS, PROFILES AND PODCASTS

SPENCER

Indiewire

Deadline

ENCOUNTER

Variety

THE CARD COUNTER

Deadline

THE LOST DAUGHTER

Deadline

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MTFB Oscar Predictions Updated: Supporting Acting and New Categories: Score, Song, Costumes / New Trailers; The Power of the Dog and Citizen Ashe / Variety Awards Circuit Podcasts: Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan / Interviews: Branagh, Smith and Mills

 MTFB OSCAR PREDICITONS UPDATED

Here's your update on the Supporting Acting races.  This updates the predictions last posted for these categories on Oct. 25th.  TFF #48 performances are indicated in Bold and their previous position in my predictions are indicated to the right in parentheses.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Caitriona Balfe/Belfast (3)

2) Kirsten Dunst/The Power of the Dog (1)

3) Aunjunue Ellis/King Richard (4)

4) Rutyh Negga/Passing (New)

5) Ann Dowd/Mass (2)

Alternates: Judi Dench/Belfast and Marlee Matlin/CODA

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Ciaran Hinds/Belfast (2)

2) Bradley Cooper/Licorice Pizza (1)

3) Jamie Dornan/Belfast (3)

4) Jared Leto/House of Gucci (New)

5) Kodi Smit-McPhee/The Power of the Dog (5)

Alternates: Ben Affleck/The Tender Bar and Jason Isaacs/Mass

NEW CATEGORIES FIRST PREDICTIONS

ORIGINAL SCORE

1) Dune

2) The Power of the Dog

3) Spencer

4) The French Dispatch

5) Don't Look Up

Alternates: Nightmare Alley and The Tragedy of Macbeth

ORIGINAL SONG

1) Believe/King Richard

2) No Time to Die/No Time to Die

3) Down to Joy/Belfast

4) So May We Start/Annette

5) Guns Go Bang/The Harder They Fall

Alternates: Colombia Mi Encanto/Encanto, Believe/The Rescue and Every Letter/Cyrano

BEST COSTUME

1) Cruella

2) Dune

3) Spencer

4) Nightmare Alley

5) House of Gucci

Alternates: The French Dispatch and West Side Story

TRAILERS

NEW TRAILER FOR THE POWER OF THE DOG

CITIZEN ASHE

VARIETY'S AWARDS CIRCUIT PODCAST:

DAKOTA JOHNSON/THE LOST DAUGHTER

JAMIE DORNAN/BELFAST

INTERVIEWS: BRANAGH, SMITH, MILLS

I've linked interviews from the past week with some TFF #48 players.

Kenneth Branagh/Belfast from Anne Thompson/Indiewire

Will Smith/King Richard from Alexia Smith/People

Mike Mills/C'mon C'mon from Jack Smart/Backstage

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MTFB Oscar Take: Updated Supporting Acting Categories / Gotham Awards Nominations and Telluride / Critics Say The Power of the Dog Is Tops / And Speaking of Jane Campion... / Trailer for The Real Charlie Chaplin /

 MTFB OSCAR TAKE: UPDATED SUPPORTING ACTING CATEGORIES

Here's your update on the Supporting Acting races.  This updates the predictions last posted for these categories on Oct. 11th.  TFF #48 performances are indicated in Bold and their previous position in my predictions are indicated to the right in parentheses.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Kirsten Dunst/The Power of the Dog (1)

2) Anne Dowd/Mass (2)

3) Caitriona Balfe/Belfast (4)

4) Aunjunue Ellis/King Richard (3)

5) Judi Dench/Belfast (Alt.)

Alternates: Ruth Negga/Passing and Marlee Matlin/CODA

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Bradley Cooper/Licorice Pizza (1)

2) Ciaran Hinds/Belfast (2)

3) Jamie Dornan/Belfast (New)

4) Ben Affleck/The Tender Bar or The Last Duel (Alt.)

5) Kodi Smit-McPhee/The Power of the Dog (Alt.)

Alternates: Jared Leto/House of Gucci and Jason Isaacs/Mass

GOTHAM AWARDS NOMINATIONS AND TELLURIDE

The New York based Gotham Awards, which aim to highlight independent film releases, announced its 2021 nominees on Thursday.  Here's how TFF #48 films fared:

The Lost Daughter: Best Feature, Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director (Gyllenhaal), Best Screenplay, Outstanding Performance (Colman). Outstanding Supporting Performance (Buckley)

Flee: Best Documentary Feature

The Card Counter: Best Screenplay, Outstanding Performance (Isaac)

Red Rocket: Best Screenplay, Outstanding Performance (Rex), Breakthrough Performance (Son)

C'mon C'mon: Outstanding Performance (Phoenix), Outstanding Supporting Performance (Hoffman)

Complete Gotham nominations are here from Deadline.com.

CRITICS SAY POWER OF THE DOG IS TOPS

Jordan Ruimy/World of Reel has conducted and informal poll of over 50 critics asking them to name the best film of 2021 to date.

Winning the poll is Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog which currently sits in the #3 spot on MTFB's Oscar Take for a Best Picture Academy Award nomination.

Other TFF #48 films to make Ruimy's list include Bergman Island (#13) and Red Rocket (#15).  The Father, from the TFF #47 list, made the grade at #8.

Ruimy's complete list is here.

AND SPEAKING OF JANE CAMPION

The Film Stage has gathered interviews from The New York Film Festival with Campion as well as Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst and KodiSmit-McPhee that accompanied The Power of the Dog's NYFF screening.

That's all linked from The Film Stage post which you can find here.

TRAILER FOR THE REAL CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Altitude Films and Showtime have released a trailer for the Peter Middleton and James Spinney's documentary The Real Charlie Chaplin.  The trailer appeared on YouTube on Oct. 20th.  Here it is:

 AND INTERVIEWS:

Indiewire with Todd Haynes on The Velvet Underground

Entertainment Weekly with Will Smith on King Richard getting a song from Beyonce.

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MTFB Oscar Take: Supporting Update / Citizen Ashe Has a Home / Deadline Talks to...Everyone

MTAFB'S OSCAR TAKE: SUPPORTING UPDATE

Here's your update on the Supporting Acting races.  This updates the predictions last posted for these categories on Sept. 27th.  TFF #48 performances are indicated in Bold and their previous position in my predictions are indicated to the right in parentheses.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Kirsten Dunst/The Power of the Dog (1)

2) Ann Dowd/Mass (2)

3) Aunjunue Ellis/King Richard (3)

4) Caitriona Balfe/Belfast (4)*

5) Adriana DeBose/West Side Story (New)

Alternates: Judi Dench/Belfast and Ruth Negga/Passing

* Depending on category placement 

Personally, I'm pulling for Dunst and Balfe.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Bradley Cooper/Licorice Pizza (1)

2) Ciaran Hinds/Belfast (2)

3) Corey Hawkins/The Tragedy of Macbeth (3)

4) Jason Issacs/Mass (4)

5) Jared Leto/House of Gucci (New)

Alternates: Ben Affleck/The Tender Bar and Kodi Smit-McPhee/The Power of the Dog

I'd urge Academy voters to remember Tony Kotsur in CODA and Kodi Smit-McPhee in The Power of the Dog.

CITIZEN ASHE HAS A HOME

Magnolia has acquired the domestic theatrical distribution rights to the Rex Miller/Sam Pollard documentary about tennis legend Arthur Ashe.  The film made its debut at the year's Telluride Film Festival.  The film also screened this past weekend at the BFI London Film Festival.  The film was produced by HBO Max and CNN Media among others.

More details can be found here from Blackfilm.com.

DEADLINE TALKS TO...EVERYONE

Deadline.com's "Contender" series (London) has begun and is highlighting a number of the films and filmmakers that were a part of  the 2021 edition of The SHOW.  I have linked a bunch of them here:

Belfast

Cyrano

Spencer

The Lost Daughter

The Hand of God

The Power of the Dog

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