Film Fest Heads Discuss the Future / Awards Radar Updates for Best Picture and TFF Potentials

 FILM FEST HEADS DISCUSS THE FUTURE

A couple of weeks back Indiewire hosted a conversation at Cannes  featuring four film festival directors including Telluride's Julie Huntsinger.  Other fest directors included were from Sundance, Berlin and New York.  The convo was hosted by Indiewire's Anne Thompson.

The focus was the future of film festivals.  You can see the entire 44 minute video at Indiewire's website.

That video and article are linked here.

https://www.indiewire.com/news/events/film-festival-directors-discuss-future-cannes-1235195002/

AWARDS RADAR UPDATES FOR BEST PICTURE AND TFF POTENTIALS

Joey Magidson of Awards Watch has updates his Best Picture predictions as of the end of the Cannes Film Fest.  He lists 25 films in all and in their order of likelihood in terms of being nominated and winning the 2027 Oscar.  I've broken those down into various categories as it relates to the potential for a TFF #53 play.

No chance: (Because they already have premiered before Telluride): 

#2 The Odyssey

#4 Project Hail Mary

#9 Tony

#11 Disclosure Day

#14 Josephine (Sundance) 

#21 The Invite

#24 Wuthering Heights

#25 Michael

Unlikely: (for a variety of reasons):

#1 Dune: Part Three

#6 Digger

#8 The Adventures of Cliff Booth

Smallish chance at Telluride:

#3 Wild Horse Nine

#5 The Social Reckoning

#10 Saturn Return

#12 I Play Rocky

#13 Being Heumann

#16 The Uprising

#17 Behemoth!

#19 Jack of  Spades

#20 A Place in Hell

Decent chance at Telluride:

#7 Fjord

#15 Paper Tiger

#18 Clarissa

#22 All of a Sudden

#23 Artificial

 

Here are all of Magidson's predictions complete with commentary.

https://awardsradar.com/best-picture/

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Oscar Experts Predict-Awards Radar / New Trailer for Emilia Perez / Maria Q+A from New York / Interviews and Profiles

 OSCAR EXPERTS PREDICT-AWARDS RADAR

I'm getting back to checking in on the current Oscar predictions for TFF #51 films from some Oscar experts.  Today I turn to Awards Radar's Joey Magidson.  Magidson's website currently has 11 TFF #51 films predicted to get 47 total nominations lead by Conclave and Saturday Night.  Awards Radar currently has no predictions for Original Song, International feature, Documentary feature or any of the Shorts categories.

Here's the breakdown:

Conclave (10): Best Picture, Direction, Actor (Fiennes), Supporting Actress  (Rossellini), Supporting Actor (Tucci), Adapted Screenplay, Production Design, Cinematography, Film Editing and Score.

Saturday Night (10): Best Picture, Direction, Original Screenplay, Production Design, Cinematography, Film Editing, Costumes, Makeup/Hair, Sound and Score.

Emilia Perez (9): Best Picture, Direction, Actress (Gascon), Supporting Actress (Saldana), Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Makeup/Hair and Score.  (Note here that I fully expect Emilia to pick up at least one nomination for Song)

Anora (5): Best Picture, Direction, Actress (Madison), Original Screenplay, Film Editing.

Maria (5): Best Actress (Jolie), Cinematography, Costumes, Makeup/Hair and Sound.

September 5 (2): Best Picture, Original Screenplay.

The Apprentice (2): Best Actor (Stan), Supporting Actor (Strong).

The Outrun (1): Best Actress (Ronan).

A Real Pain (1): Best Supporting Actor (Culkin).

The Piano Lesson (1): Best Supporting Actress (Deadwyler).

Piece by Piece (1); Best Animated Feature.

Here's the link to all of Magidson's predictions at Awards Radar.

NEW TRAILER FOR EMILIA PEREZ

From YouTube:

MARIA Q+A FROM NEW YORK

Via Next Best Picture and YouTube, here is the post-screening Q+A for Maria from the New York Film Festival featuring Angelina Jolie, Ed Lachman and director Pablo Larrain:

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

Director/Writer RaMell Ross for Nickel Boys from The Hollywood Reporter.

Director/Writer RaMell Ross on Nickel Boys from Film Comment.

Producers Dede Gardner and Joslyn Barnes on Nickel Boys from Indiewire.

Producers Hillary Clinton, Jennifer Lawrence and Chelsea Clinton for Zurawski v. Texas from Vanity Fair.

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Another Early Oscar Look / Will Abel Screen at Abel? / Speaking of Cannes...

ANOTHER EARLY OSCAR LOOK

Joey Magidson of Awards Radar has posted his first set of picks for the 2025 Oscars and as has been my way, I've looked through them for possible TFF #51 titles.  Magidson has divided them into two parts.  Part One went up last Friday focusing on "Above the Line" categories.  Part Two will be posted later this week.

Here's what I'm seeing from Part One beginning with films Magidson thinks are Best Picture contenders:

Blitz-Steve McQueen

Conclave-Edward Berger

Maria-Pablo Larrain

The Nickel Boys-Ross

SNL 1975-Reitman

Queer-Gaudagnino

Bird-Arnold

The End-Oppenheimer

The Apprentice-Abbasi

The Piano Lesson-Washington

From the other "Above the Line" Categories:

Megalopolis-Coppola

The Actor-Johnson

We Live in Time-Crowley

Here's the link to Magidson's post.

WILL ABEL SCREEN AT ABEL?

News this week that a newly restores print of Abel Gance's monumental silent film Napoleon will lead off the Cannes Classics section on May 14th.

From Cannes' press release:

"A legend known to cinephiles the world over, a major work of the silent era, one of the most monumental restorations in the history of filmmaking will be unveiled on May 14 as a world premiere: Napoléon by Abel Gance (1st period), in a version resulting from a colossal, passionate effort by the Cinémathèque française, with the support of the CNC."

Naturally that makes one think that the restoration could be a natural choice for TFF.  I can see this screening at Elk Park which is re-christened the Abel Gance Open Air Cinema each year for the festival.

The entire press release is here.

AND SPEAKING OF CANNES...

Here's the official poster for the 77th Edition of the Cannes Film Festival:

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MTFB Oscar Take: Updated Screenplay Predix / Magidson's Oscar Predictions and TFF #49 / Visitations: Hathaway and Gray

MTFB OSCAR TAKE: UPDATED SCREENPLAY PREDIX

Today I am updating predictions in the categories of Best Original and Adapted Screenplay.  These were last predicted on Oct. 17th.  Past ranking is to the right of the performer in parentheses.  Films from TFF #49 are in Bold.

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1) Women Talking (1)

2) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2)

3) She Said (4)

4) The Whale (3)

5) White Noise (5)

6) Living (6)

7) Top Gun: Maverick (7)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1) Everything Everywhere All at Once (1)

2) The Banshees of Inisherin (2)

3) The Fabelmans (3)

4) TAR (4)

5) Triangle of Sadness (5)

6) Babylon (7) 

7) Armageddon Time (6)

JOEY MAGIDSON'S OSCAR PREDICTIONS AND TFF #49

I am continuing my series wherein I check the Oscar predictions of a number of experts and how they have situated films that played at TFF #49.  Previously I have passed along predictions from Variety's Clayton Davis, The Hollywood Reporter's Scott Feinberg and Awards Watch's Erik Anderson,  Entertainment Weekly's Dave Karger, Next Best Picture's Matt Neglia and Nathaniel Rogers of The Film Experience. 

Today I'm highlighting Joey Magidson who runs Awards Radar.  Magidson has 17 of the 23 feature categories listed.  Here's what Joey currently has predicted at his site for TFF #49 films (total predicited nominations in parentheses):

Women Talking (7): Best Picture, Direction (Polley), Supporting Actress (Buckley), Supporting Actress (Foy), Supporting Actor (Whishaw), Adapted Screenplay and Costumes.

TAR (7): Best Picture, Direction (Field), Actress (Blanchett), Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing and Original Score.

Armageddon Time (3): Supporting Actress (Hathaway), Supporting Actor (Hopkins) and Original Screenplay.

Empire of Light (1): Best Picture.

Living (1): Best Actor (Nighy).

Bardo (1): Best Cinematography

AND...from TFF #48: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (1): Best Animated Feature.

So Magidson has 20 nominations going to TFF #49 films plus Marcel from TFF #48.

The complete Awards Radar predictions can be found here.

VISITATIONS

Insider.com with Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong on Armageddon Time

Indiewire with James Gray on Armageddon Time

The Playlist with James Gray on Armageddon Time

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