TELLURIDE AND THE OSCAR PART SIX: BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Today is Part Six of my series looking at the relationship between films from the Telluride Film Festival and the Oscars "Big Eight" categories with the focus today on Best Supporting Actor. Beginning with 2005 (the year before I began attending the fest) here are all the Oscar nominees for that category. Winners are indicated with ***.
2005: Jake Gyllenhaal/Brokeback Mountain
2006: Jackie Earle Haley/Little Children
2007: Hal Holbrook/Into the Wild
2008: No nominees
2009: Christopher Plummer/The Last Station
2010: Geoffrey Rush/The King's Speech
2011: No nominees
2012: Alan Arkin/Argo
2013: Michael Fassbender/12 Years a Slave
2014: Mark Ruffalo/Foxcatcher, Edward Norton/Birdman
2015: Mark Ruffalo/Spotlight
2016: Mahershala Ali/Moonlight***, Lucas Hedges/Manchester by the Sea
2017: Richard Jenkins/The Shape of Water
2018: Richard E. Grant/Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Notes: The category that Telluride has held the least sway over in the 14 years with only 14 nominations during that time and just the single win for Mahershala Ali in 2016.
Mark Ruffalo is the only actor with two nominations in this category from TFF films and they came in back to back years with Foxcatcher in 2014 and Spotlight in 2015.
2008 and 2011 saw no nominations at all from T-ride films in the category.
To the best of my ability, it appears that the first TFF nominee in this category was Jaye Davidson for The Crying Game in 1992.
Thursday a look at Best Adapted Screenplay.
CHAZELLE BACK IN THE GAME
Emma Stone and Damien Chazelle
(Photo via Michael Buckner/Deadline/Shutterstock)
Mike Fleming writing at Deadline.com has reported as of yesterday that Damien Chazelle is in the process of lining up his next project. Fleming reports that the film is an "original drama set in period Hollywood. He further reports that Chazelle's Oscar winning star of his La La Land, Emma Stone, is considering taking the lead and that Lionsgate, which distributed La La Land is said to be in the running to do the same for the new picture.
Deadline reports that the film's current title is Babylon.
It's worth noting for TFF fans as Chazelle's last two films have made their way there-La La Land and First Man.
Deadline does not report any specific timeline for the film.
The Deadline story is here.
Variety has reported that Paramount is also interested.
The Hollywood Reporter suggests that Netflix may also be interested and that Stone may be looking at playing real life early Hollywood star Clara Bow.
THR'S 20 VENICE POSSIBLES
The Hollywood Reporter's Scott Roxborough published a story yesterday listing 20 films that he/THR feel have some likelihood of playing the Venice Fest. They announce the bulk of their lineup on July 25th.
As most readers here know, the Venice/Telluride connection has been significant over the past few years.
Among the 20 titles the one's that seem to have the most chance of being a Venice/Telluride combo film are:
James Gray's Ad Astra
Taika Waititi Jojo Rabbit
Kelly Reichardt's First Cow
Chloe Zhao's Nomadland
Fernando Meirelles' The Pope
Pablo Larrain's Ema
Hirokazu Kore-eda's The Truth
A couple of others to mention that are outside shots: Todd Phillips' Joker and Steven Soderbergh's The Laundromat
The article also includes Martin Scorsese's The Irishman which almost everyone believes will not be ready for Venice (and Hence Telluride). Also mentioned is Greta Gerwig's Little Women, which is the only film among the 20 that Roxborough specifically mentions as a Telluride possibility...though he does also write about the current bizz that Little Women may not do any fest at all.
The complete THR article is linked here.
That'll do for this Tuesday. I'll have more on Thursday.
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