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MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SUPPORTING ACTING AND MORE

I'm updating the Supporting Acting categories today and adding three other categories going forward.  The categories I am adding today are: Original Score, Original Song And Sound. The acting categories were last updated on Nov. 25th.  An actor's previous position is indicated in (parentheses).  TFF #51 films are in Bold. 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Zoe Saldana/Emilia Perez (1)

2) Isabella Rossellini/Conclave (2)

3) Danielle Deadwyler/The Piano Lesson (3)

4) Ariana Grande/Wicked (4)

5) Felicity Jones/The Brutalist (5)

Others: Selena Gomez/Emilia Perez, Saoirse Ronan/Blitz and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor/Nickel Boys.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Kieran Culkin/A Real Pain (1)

2) Denzel Washington/Gladiator II (2)

3) Guy Pearce/The Brutalist (3)

4) Clarence Maclin/Sing Sing (4)

5) Yura Borisov/Anora (-)

Others: Edward Norton/A Complete Unknown, Stanley Tucci/Conclave. Jeremy Strong/The Apprentice and John Magaro/September 5.

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

1) Conclave

2) The Brutalist

3) Emilia Perez

4) The Wild Robot

5) The Room Next Door

Others: Blitz, Challengers and Saturday Night.

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

1) Mi Camino/Emilia Perez

2) El Mal/Emilia Perez

3) Kiss the Sky/The Wild Robot

4) Piece by Piece/Piece by Piece

5) The Journey/The Six Triple Eight

Others: Winter Coat/Blitz, Beyond/Moana 2 and Harper and Will Go West/Will & Harper.

BEST SOUND

1) Dune Part Two

2) Wicked

3) Gladiator II

4) A Complete Unknown

5) Emilia Perez

Others: Blitz, Maria and The Brutalist.

GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS AND TFF

Here are the TFF films That were nominated for Golden Globes this morning:

Twelve TFF Films earned 35 Golden Globe nominations early theis morning.  Emilia Perez led all films with 10 nominations.  Here are the results from the announcement:

Emilia Perez (10): Best Picture (Musical or Comedy), Film Not in the English Language, Direction, Actress (Musical or Comedy-Gascon), Supporting Actress (Saldana and Gomez), Screenplay, Song (El Mal and Mi Camino) and Score.

Conclave (6): Best Picture (Drama), Direction, Actor (Drama-Fiennes), Supporting Actress (Rossellini), Screenplay and Score.

Anora (5): Best Picture (Musical or Comedy), Direction, Actress (Musical or Comedy-Moore), Supporting Actor (Burisov), and Screenplay.

A Real Pain (4): Best Picture (Musical or Comedy), Actor (Musical or Comedy-Eisenberg), Supporting Actor (Culkin) and Screenplay.

All We Imagine as Light (2): Best Film Not in the English Language, Direction.

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

September 5 (1): Best Picture (Drama).

Nickel Boys (1): Best Picture (Drama).

Memoir of a Snail (1): Best Animated Film.

The Seed of the Sacred Fig (1): Best Film Not in the English Language.

Saturday Night (1): Best Actor (Musical or Comedy-LaBelle).

Maria (1): Best actress (Drama-Jolie).

The Golden Globes winners will be announced on January 5th, 2025.

The complete list of all Golden Globes nominees is linked here from Variety.

CRITICS AND AWARDS GROUPS FROM THIS PAST WEEKEND

***THE LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS AND TFF

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association named their "Best Of" yesterday.  Here's how films that played at TFF fared:

Best Picture: Anora

Best Director: Mohammad Rasoulof/The Seed of the Sacred Fig.  Runner-up: Sean Baker/Anora

Lead Performance: Mikey Madison/Anora

Supporting Performance: Yura Borisov/Anora and Kieran Culkin/A Real Pain.

Screenplay: Jesse Eisenberg/A Real Pain.  Runner-up: Sean Baker/Anora

Cinematography: Nickel Boys.

Editing: Nickel Boys and September 5 (tied).

Best Film Not in the English Language: All We Imagine as Light.  Runner-up: The Seed of the Sacred Fig.

Best Documentary: No Other land.

A full list of the LAFCA results is linked here from their website.

***EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS AND TFF

Jacques Audiard's Emilia Perez dominated the European Film Awards which announced their recipients on Dec. 7th.

Emilai Perez won Best European Film, Direction for Audiard and Best Actress for Karla Sofia Gascon.  Audiard was also awarded Best Screenwriter.  Additionally the film won Best Editing.  The other TFF winner was No Other Land as Best European Documentary.

***BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS AND TFF

The British Independent Film Association announced its winners on Sunday evening.  TFF films winning are as follows:

Best Screenplay: Santosh.

Best Supporting Performance: Frank Rogowski/Bird.

Breakthrough Producer: Santosh.

Best Independent Foreign Film: Anora.

The complete list of all winners is linked here from the BIFA website.

THE PLAYLIST 100 MOST ANTICIPATED FOR 2025

Each year about this time The Playlist publishes a list of 100 films that they're most interested in for the following year.  The 2025 list was posted last week.  Also each year I spend some time culling the list for what feel like possible titles for TFF.  Normally I come up with a list of around 20 titles and on average 5-6 of those actually make it into The SHOW.  Last year was actually a low point for me as only four of the films I highlighted actually made it to Telluride: The End, Anora, Bird and Maria.  Nevertheless, here's my best shot at what might be in TFF #52 from this list of 100 films:

#85) Echo Valley

#73 The Actor (again)

#65) The Roses

#56) The Way of gthe Wind (again)

#52) The History of Sound

#50) Pressure

#47) Splitsville

#43) Deliver Me from Nowhere

#42) The Ballad of a Small Player

#37) Hamnet

#28) Anemone

#14) The Phoenician Scheme

#13) Untitled Noah Baunbach (Jay Kelly?)

#8) Frankenstein

#5) Untitled Alejandro Inarritu (Judy?)

#4) Bugonia

#2) Die My Love

Personally, I'm most excited for Anemone (Daniel Day Lewis unretires), Hamnet (Chole Zhao and Shakespeare) and Del Toro's Frankenstein.

The complete list of 100 films, plus some honorable mentions, is linked here.

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

Errol Morris for Separated from Gold Derby.

Michael Shannon for The End from Vanity Fair.

Mohammad Rasoulof for The Seed of the Sacred Fig from AP News.

Behind the Scenes: the Makking of The Seed of the Sacred Fig from NEON.

Dylan O'Brien (Dan Akroyd) for Saturday Night from Gold Derby.

Matt Wood (John Belushi) for Saturday Night from Awards Radar.

Mark Eydelshteyn for Anora from The Contending.

Director Josh Greenbaum for Will and Harper from Gold Derby.

Ali Abassi for The Apprentice from The Playlist.

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MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: LEAD ACTING

I'm updating the Lead Acting categories today.  These categories were last updated on Oct. 24th.  An actor's previous position is indicated in (parentheses).  TFF #51 films are in Bold. 

BEST ACTRESS

1) Mikey Madison/Anora

2) Angelina Jolie/Maria

3) Karla Sofia Gascon/Emilia Perez

4) Saoirse Ronan/The Outrun

5) Nicole Kidman/Babygirl

Others: Demi Moore/The Substance, Marianne Jean-Baptiste/Hard Truths and Tilda Swinton/The Room Next Door.

BEST ACTOR

1) Adrien Brody/The Brutalist

2) Ralph Fiennes/Conclave

3) Colman Domingo/Sing Sing

4) Timothee Chalamet/A Complete Unknown

5) Daniel Craig/Queer

Others: Paul Mescal/Gladiator II, Sebastian Stan/The Apprentice and Jesse Eisenberg/A Real Pain.

TFF NOMINATIONS FOR EFA AND BIFA

TFF films were well represented in films nominated for the European Film Awards announced earlier this week.

Emilia Perez (4): Best European Film, Direction, Actress (Gascon), Screenwriter.

The Seed of the Sacred Fig (3): Best European Film, Direction, Screenwriter.

No Other Land (2): Best European Film, Documentary.

They Shot the Piano Player (TFF #50) (2): Best European Feature, Animated Feature.

Bird (2) Best Direction, Actor (Rogowski).

Santosh (1) Best Discovery

Conclave (1): Best Actor (Fiennes).

TFF films also were recognized with nominations for the British Independent Film Awards:

The Outrun (9): Best British Independent Film, Direction, Lead Performance (Ronan), Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Makeup/Hair, Original Music and Sound. 

Bird (7): Best Direction, Supporting Performance (Rogowski and Keoghan), Breakthrough Performance (Adams), Casting, Editing and Original Music.

Santosh (4): Best British Independent Film, Screenplay, Breakthrough Producer and Debut Screenwriter.

All We Imagine as Light (1): Best Independent International Film.

Anora (1): Best Independent International Film.

La Chimera (from TFF #50) (1): Best Independent International Film.

No Other Land (1): Best Independent International Film.

The Seed of the Sacred Fig (1): Best Independent International Film.

TRAILER FOR THE END

From NEON via YouTube:

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

Chelsea Clinton for Zurawski v. Texas from Marie Claire

Jesse Eisenberg for A Real Pain from Vanity Fair.

Zoe Saldana for Emilia Perez from The Hollywood Reporter.

Co-director Abbie Perrault for Zurawski v. Texas from Next Best Picture.

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MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SUPPORTING ROLES

I am updating predictions in the categories of Best  Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor.  These were last predicted on Oct. 27th.  Past ranking is to the right of the performer in parentheses.  Performances from TFF #49 are in Bold.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Jesse Buckley/Women Talking (1)

2) Kerry Condon/The Banshees of Inisherin (5)

3) Clare Foy/Women Talking (2)

4) Hong Chau/The Whale (3)

5) Carey Mulligan/She Said (4)

6) Nina Hoss/TAR (New)

7) Dolly DeLeon/Triangle of Sadness (New)

Out: Jamie Lee Curtis/Everything Everywhere and Janelle Monae/Glass Onion

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Brendan Gleeson/The Banshees of Inisherin (1)

2) Ke Huy Quan/Everything Everywhere All at Once (2)

3) Judd Hirsch/The Fabelmans (3)

4) Ben Whishaw/Women Talking (4)

5) Paul Dano/The Fabelmans (5)

6) Barry Keoghan/The Banshees of Inisherin (New)

7) Anthony Hopkins/Armageddon Time (7)

Out: Eddie Redmayne/The Good Nurse

EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS AND TFF #49

The nominations for the European Film Awards were announced on Tuesday.  Here are how films that screened at Telluride this year fared:

Close (4): Best European Film, Direction, Actor (Dambrine), Screenwriter

Holy Spider (4): European Film, Direction, Actress (Amir-Ebrahimi), Screenwriter

TFF #49 films with a single EFA nomination:

Aftersun: Best European Actor (Mescal)

One Fine Morning: Best European Actress (Seydoux)

Godland: Best European Actor (Hove)

March on Rome: Best European Documentary

And from TFF #48 a nomination for Best European Screenwriter for Kenneth Branagh's Belfast

From the EFA, here is the complete list of nominees.

TRAILERS

For Matthew Heineman's documentary Retrograde from National Geographic releasing this Friday:

For Melissa Leash and Trevor Frost's Wildcat from Amazon Studios releasing Dec. 30th.

VISITATIONS: TODD FIELD

Interview with TAR's writer/director Todd Field from Variety.

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LATEST OSCAR PREDICITONS ON FIVE CATEGORIES FROM MTFB'S OSCAR TAKE

Here's your latest Oscar predictions for Screenplay writing from MTFB.  These categories were last updated here on Oct. 28th.  In addition, here are first predictions for Visual Effects, Sound and Makeup and Hair.   TFF #48 films are in Bold.

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1) Belfast (1) 

2) Licorice Pizza (2)

3) King Richard (4)

4) C'mon C'mon (3)

5) Don't Look Up (5)

Alternates: Mass and Spencer

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1) The Power of the Dog (1)

2) The Lost Daughter (3)

3) CODA (4)

4) Nightmare Alley (2)

5) Passing (New)

Alternates: Dune, The Tragedy of Macbeth and West Side Story

VISUAL EFFECTS

1) Dune

2) The Matrix Resurrections

3) Eternals

4) Spiderman: No Way Home

5) Don't Look Up

Alternates: Godzilla Vs, King and Free Guy

SOUND

1) Dune

2) West Side Story

3) No Time to Die

4) Belfast

5) The Power of the Dog

Alternates: Nightmare Alley and Eternals

MAKEUP AND HAIR

1) Dune

2) The Eyes of Tammy Faye

3) House of Gucci

4) Cruella

5) Spencer

Alternates: The French Dispatch and Being the Ricardos

That's all 20 of the Feature categories.  Currently MTFB's Oscar Take predicted nominations for TFF #48 films:

Belfast Total-11 and 1 other alternate: Picture, Direction (Branagh), Supporting Actress (Balfe), Supporting Actress (Dench), Supporting Actor (Hinds), Supporting Actor (Dornan), Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Song, Sound.  Alternate: Production Design

The Power of the Dog- Total 10 with 1 other alternate: Picture, Direction (Campion) , Actor (Cumberbatch), Supporting Actress (Dunst), Supporting Actor (Smit-McPhee), Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Score, Sound.  Alternate: Production Design)

King Richard Total-6 and 1 other alternate: Picture, Actor, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay, Editing and Song.  Alternate: Director (Green)

Spencer Total- 4 and 3 alternates: Picture, Actress (Stewart), Score, Costumes.  Alternates: Direction (Larrain), Original Screenplay and Cinematography. 

Flee Total-3 and 1 alternate: International Feature, Animated Feature, Documentary Feature.  Alternate: Picture.

The French Dispatch Total- 2 and 2 alternates: Production Design and Score.  Alternates: Costume and Make/Hair.

 

The Lost Daughter Total- 2: Actress (Colman), Adapted Screenplay.

C'mon C'mon Total- 1 and 1 alternate: Original Screnplay.  Alternate: Actor (Phoenix)

The Rescue Total- 1 and 1 alternate: Documentary Feature.  Alternate: Song

A Hero Total- 1: International Feature

The Hand of God Total- 1: International Feature

Procession Total 1- Documentary Feature

Total TFF #48 nominations- 43 with 11 Alternate possibilities.  That's  a stunning number if it holds true.

Check out the complete list of predictions for all 20 feature film categories on the MTFB Oscar Take Page.

DEAN STOCKWELL 1936-2021

Longtime actor Dean Stockwell died earlier this week.  The actor was 85.  

Stockwell was a guest at the 11th Telluride Film Festival in 1984 attending as a part of the entourage in support of Wim Wenders Paris, Texas.  He was Oscar nominated in 1988 for Best Supporting Actor in Jonathan Demme's Married to the Mob.  He was also a four time Emmy nominee for his role as Al Calavicci in Quantum Leap.  He also twice won Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival; the first in 1959 for Compulsion and the second in 1962 for Long Day's Journey Into Night.  His most recent IMDb credit is from 2015.

I saw Stockwell in Santa Fe, NM in 1980 as part of a tribute to D.H. Lawrence.  Stockwell had been invited to be a part of the troupe that presented a 2 1/2 hour retrospective of Lawrence's work primarily due to his role in Jack Cardiff's 1960 adaptation of Lawrence's Sons and Lovers.

Among other performers on stage that evening were Ian McKellen, Jane Alexander, Tony Randall and Elizabeth Taylor.  Stockwell was a standout among the high-powered crew.

NEW TRAILER FOR C'MON C'MON

A24 has released a second official trailer for Mike Mills' C'mon C'mon starring Joaquin Phoenix.  Here that is from YouTube:

EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS NOMINATE TELLURIDE FILMS

The EFA  nominations were announced earlier this week.  All told TFF films earned nine nominations.   Florian Zeller's TFF #47 listed film earned four: Best European Film, Best Direction, Best Actor and Best Screenwriter.

TFF #48's The Hand of God also earned three noms: Best European Film, Best Direction and Best Screenwrier.

Flee, also a TFF #48 entrant, was nominated for Best European Animated Feature and Best Documentary.

The complete list of EFA nominees can be found here from Deadline.com.

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BIG CRITICS GROUPS AND OSCAR IN 2018

I did this last year at the same time.  That is to say that I collated results about where films stand in critical eyes as we approach the end of the year.

I look at what we've been told by nominations or awards from The Golden Globes (GG), Critics Choice Awards (BFCA), National Board of Review (NBR), American Film Institute (AFI), New York Film Critics Circle (NY) and Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LA), Screen Actors Guild (SAG).

Last year the list looked like this:

10) The Disaster Artist (NBR, GG)
7) The Florida Project (NBR, BFCA, AFI)
7) The Big Sick (BFCA, AFI, SAG)
7) The Shape of Water (BFCA, GG, AFI)
4) The Post (NBR, BFCA, GG, AFI)
4) Dunkirk (NBR, BFCA, GG, AFI)
4) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (BFCA, GG, SAG, AFI)
2) Call Me By Your Name (NBR, LA, BFCA, GG, AFI)
2) Get Out (NBR, BFCA, GG, SAG, AFI)
1) Lady Bird (NBR, NY, BFCA, GG, SAG, AFI)

So it included TFF #44 films Lady Bird, and The Shape of Water.  It also included eventual Oscar Best Picture winner, The Shape of Water. and nominees Lady Bird, Three Billboards, Dunkirk, The Post, Get Out, Call Me By Your Name and Dunkirk.  So, the top seven got in with the additions, of TFF #44 film Darkest Hour and also Phantom Thread.

With that in mind, here's what the data from the same seven groups tells us in 2018:

9) Six films tied here with two mentions each: Bohemian Rhapsody, Crazy Rich Asians, Eighth Grade, First Reformed, A Quiet Place and Vice.

7) Mary Poppins Returns (3): NBR, AFI, BFCA
7) The Favourite (3): GG, AFI, BFCA
4) If Beale Street Could Talk (4): NBR, GG, AFI, BFCA
4) Green Book (4): NBR (best picture), GG, AFI, BFCA
4) BlacKkKlansman (4): GG, AFI, SAG, BFCA
1) A Star Is Born (5): NBR, GG, AFI, SAG, BFCA
1) Roma (5): NBR, NY, LA, AFI (special citation), BFCA
1) Black Panther (5): NBR, GG, AFI, SAG, BFCA

With single mentions: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Can You Ever Forgive Me? and First Man.

Based on last year, if you're film is sitting at #7 or above, it's got a great chance to be Oscar nominated for Best Picture on the morning of Jan. 22nd.


COLD WAR DOMINATES THE EFA

The European Film Awards were passed out Saturday and TFF #45 film Pawel Pawlikowski's Cold War dominated the field picking up five wins including Best European Film.  The film's female lead, Joanna Kulig, was named Best Actress and Pawlikowski won for Best Direction and Screenwriting.  The film also won for Best Editing. 

In other TFF #45 EFA news, Matteo Garrone's Dogman did well too with wins for Best Actor (Marcello Fonte), Costume Design and Hair/Makeup.

Lukas Dhont's Girl was named winner for European Discovery and Ali Abassi's Border won the award for visual effects.

Linked here is the press release from the EFA.


SHORT LISTS LAND TODAY

Steve Pond of The Wrap reports that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces all of their short lists for a variety of categories today.

That's a departure from the past when the categories that include the "short list" process have traditionally parcelled those announcements over a period of weeks but that won't be the process this year.

Pond tells us that will mean nine different categories will be trimmed to definitive lists by this afternoon. 

Here are those categories and the number that they will be trimmed to:

Foreign Language Film (9)
Documentary Feature (15)
Original Song (15)
Original Score (15)
Makeup/Hair (7...probably)
Visual Effects (10)
Documentary Short (10)
Animated Short (10)
Live Action Short (10)

Pond also takes a look at what he thinks are the most likely inclusions and exclusions in his article which you can find linked here.

I'll have a look at how the short lists all shake out vis-a-vis Telluride in Thursday's regularly scheduled post.


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Oscar Predictions Update: Supporting Actress and Actor / TFF #45 Represents in the European Film Awards Noms / Time Breaks Down the Story of The Front Runner / Indiewire Focuses on Free Solo and Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Howdy everyone.  Welcome back from the weekend.


OSCAR PREDICTIONS UPDATE: SUPPORTING ACTRESS AND ACTOR

Here's MTFB's latest set of predictions for Best Supporting Actress and Actor updating the last shot I took at them from Oct. 22nd.

The new rankings list the performer's last position and, as always, TFF #45 performers are Bold.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS


1) Regina King/If Beale Street Could Talk (1)
2) Emma Stone/The Favourite (3)
3) Claire Foy/First Man (2)
4) Nicole Kidman/Boy Erased (4)
5) Rachel Wiesz/The Favourite (5)

In the Mix: Amy Adams/Vice, Emily Blunt/A Quiet Place, Elizabeth Debicki/Widows, Marina DeTaviria/Roma, Linda Cardellini/Green Book


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Mahershala Ali/Green Book (1)
2) Sam Elliott/A Star Is Born (3)
3) Richard E. Grant/Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2)
4) Timothee Chalamet/Beautiful Boy (4)
5) Adam Driver/BlacKkKlansman (-)

In the Mix: Sam Rockwell/Vice, Michael B. Jordan/Black Panther, Russell Crowe/Boy Erased, Daniel Kaluuya/Widows


TFF#45 REPRESENTS IN THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS NOMINATIONS

Several films from the 2018 edition of the Telluride Film Festival made their presence known as the European Film Awards nominations were announced.  TFF #45 films pulled in 16 total nominations with an additional nomination for a TFF #44 film.

Cold War led the way with five nominations for Best European Film, Direction, Actress, Actor and Screenwriting.

Both Border and Dogman garnered four nominations each.  For Border they were: Best European Film, Direction, Actress and Screenwriting.  For Dogman: Best European Film, Direction, Actor and Screenwriting.

Girl was nominated in three categories: Best European Film, Direction and Actor.

TFF #44's Foxtrot was nominated for Best Direction.

Here, from the official EFA website, is the complete list of nominees.


TIME BREAKS DOWN THE STORY OF THE FRONT RUNNER

With The Front Runner's  limited release on election day last week and its imminent expansion at hand, Time.com posted a look at the story of Sen. Gary Hart's run for President in 1987 (for the '88 election) that is the basis for the film.

Time establishes a timeline for all of the key moments that occurred and assesses those events.

That story is linked here.



INDIEWIRE FOCUSES ON FREE SOLO AND CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?

Indiewire this past week included in their IDA Screening Series a conversation with the people behind Free Solo.  That video can be found in this story.

Meanwhile, Indiewire's Toolkit podcast this week included Can You Ever Forgive Me? Director Marielle Heller.  That podcast is linked here.


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FAC Update: Picture, Director/EFA's = Telluride/Amour and Royal/

Good Monday to Everybody!  Hope it was a good weekend.

The most hilarious tidbit I ran across this weekend was the news that John Cusack is putting together a biopic about Rush Limbaugh.  And, you know, I couldn't resist.  I have begun suggesting titles for the film via Twitter.  Look for the hashtag #rushlimbaughmovietitles.  No word yet from John Cusack's people if they like my suggestions...Here's one of them: "Life of (eating) Pie"...

FAC UPDATE: PICTURE/DIRECTOR

After last week's massive 10 category post to update the Film Awards Clearinghouse, I'm back to updating 2-3 categories per week.  I expect to drop another full view of the Big Ten categories sometime between Thanksgiving and the end of the year.


The FAC reviews the Oscar predictions of the following to arrive at its "predictions":

Sasha Stone/Awards Daily
Scott Feinberg/The Feinberg Forecast-The Hollywood Reporter
Kristopher Tapley/InContention-HitFix
Anne Thompson/Thompson on Hollywood-IndieWire
Peter Knegt/IndieWire
Brad Brevet/Rope of Silicon
Clayton Davis/Awards Circuit
Nathaniel Rogers/Film Experience
Alex Carlson/Film Misery

 As always the number in parenthesis to a title is its position vis-a-vis the last posting for that category on The FAC updates. Telluride #39 films are indicated in Bold. [ *** ='s HOT, ### ="s NOT].

BEST PICTURE

1) Argo (1)
2) Silver Linings Playbook (2)
3) Lincoln (3)
4) Life of Pi (4) (see above Rush Limbaugh biopic joke)
5) Les Miserables (5)
6) The Master (6)
7) Beasts of the Southern Wild (7)
8) Amour (8)
9) Hitchcock (9)
10) Flight (10)
11) Zero Dark Thirty (11)
12) Django Unchained (12)
13) Moonrise Kingdom (New-ish)***
14) The Sessions (13)
15) Promised Land (14)

Dropping out (again) Anna Karenina

Comments;

As you'd expect, a lot of stability as the prognosticators positions harden and a s there are fewer and fewer films that have yet to be seen (no changes in the 1 thru 12 spots).   "Moonrise" probably is getting a little kick from its DVD/VOD release last week (I finally saw it and thought it was terrific...very Wes Anderson-y...which I usually like).  Joe Wright's "Anna Karenina" is the film the suffers from that.

BEST DIRECTION

1) Ben Affleck/Argo (1)
2) Steven Spielberg/Lincoln (2)
3) Ang Lee/Life of Pi (3)
4) David O. Russell/Silver Linings Playbook (4)
5) Paul Thomas Anderson/The Master (5)
6) Tom Hooper/Les Miserables (6)
7) Michael Haneke/Amour (7)
8 ) Kathryn Bigelow/Zero Dark Thirty (8)
9) Benh Zeitlin/Beasts of the Southern Wild (9)
10) Sacha Gervasi/Hitchcock (10)

Comment: No changes at all here from last week.

Next week I'll update Picture and the Best Actress and Best Actor races.


EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS AND TELLURIDE

"Amour" director Michael Haneke

It isn't a secret that there is usually a good deal of European cinema represented from year to year at Telluride. Cannes titles sprout like weeds and there is also usually a decent representation from the Berlin Festival.  Those connections were forcefully underscored this last weekend with the announcement of nominations for the European Film Awards...Here's what I mean...

EFA Best Picture includes: "Amour", "Shame", "The Hunt" and "Barbara"..4 of 6 nominees have Telluride pedigrees...

Best Direction: Haneke/Amour, Vinterberg/The Hunt, McQueen/Shame (3 of 5)

Best Actor: Fassbender/Shame, Mikkelsen/The Hunt, Trintignant/Amour (3 of 5)

Best Actress: Hoss/Barbara, Riva/Amour, Tiesel/Paradise Love (3 of 5)

Screenwriter: "Amour" and "The Hunt" (2 of 5)

Cinematography: "Amour" and "Shame" (2 of 5)

Editor: "Shame" and "The Hunt" (2 of 3)

Production Design: "A Royal Affair" (1 of 3)

Composer: "A Royal Affair" (1 of 4)

Overall 21 Telluride nominations in these 9 categories out of 41 possible nominations.

The Hollywood Reporter posted this story about the EFA's this weekend:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-hanekes-amour-steve-mcqueens-386205

The complete field of EFA nominees can be found here:
http://www.europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/nominations/films


AMOUR AND ROYAL

Interviews with "Amour" writer/director Michael Haneke with Gold Derby and Alicia Vikander of "A Royal Affair"  with David Poland of The Movie City News:

Haneke: http://www.goldderby.com/films/news/3542/michael-hanake-amour-entertainment-news-528174926.html

Vikander: http://moviecitynews.com/2012/10/dp30-alicia-vikander-actor-a-royal-affairanna-karenina/

And speaking of "A Royal Affair" (btw...met Mads Mikkelsen at The New Sheridan on the Saturday night of the festival...very quiet and unassuming...which was great.  He was flying under the radar, but when "Hannibal" starts airing on NBC with him as the title character, Hannibal Lecter himself, I suspect his days of U.S. anonymity are soon to be over), here's a post from The Hollywood Reporter with a clip from the film:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/a-royal-affair-sneak-peek-384862


OSCAR ANALYSIS

Both Film Experience and Deadline.com have posted Oscar analysis for where we are at this point in the season.  Check those out here:

Film Ex: http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2012/11/4/november-oscar-updates.html

Deadline: http://www.deadline.com/2012/11/awards-season-oscars-campaigns-toronto-telluride-sundance-cannes/

Kris Tapley and Anne Thompson's Oscar Talk podcast is here:
http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/oscar-talk-ep-94-disney-buys-lucasfilm-as-hitchcock-opens-afi-fest

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/oscar-talk
 
Sasha Stone and Erik Anderson have their Oscar Podcast up here:
http://www.awardsdaily.com/podcasts/oscarpodcast/episode6.mp3

Jeff Wells and Ed Douglas have their Oscar Poker up here:
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2012/11/return_of_dougl.php

And here's the latest Feinberg Forecast of the Oscar race from THR analyst Scott Feinberg:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/afflecks-argo-spielbergs-lincoln-oscar-386198

More on Thursday...

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