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VARIETY'S EARLY OSCAR PREDICITONS AND TFF

I'm continuing my current project of scouring early Oscar prognostications for possible titles that might pop up at the 51st Telluride Film Festival.  Today's source is Clayton Davis from Variety.  For this source I looked at Best Picture Predictions first and then for other possibilities from the acting, directing and screenplay categories.

So here are the films from those predictions that seem to me to be the most Telluride-ific.

From Clayton's 10 Best Picture predictions:

Andrea Arnold's Bird

Steve McQueen's Blitz

Edward Berger's Conclave

Joshua Oppenheimer's The End

Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis

RaMell Ross' The Nickel Boys

Malcolm Washington's The Piano Lesson

From Clayton's alternates for Best Picture:

Ali Abbasi's The Apprentice

Mike Leigh's Hard Truths

Pablo Larrain's Maria

Paolo Sorrentino's Parenthope

Luca Gaudagnino's Queer

Jason Reitman's SNL 1975

And from the other categories:

Paul Schrader's Oh Canada

Duke Johnson's The Actor

Jonathan Kent's Long Day's Journey Into Night

Linked here are Clayton's complete set of early Oscar predictions for Variety.

MTFB'S UNOFFICIAL TFF OSCAR HISTORY UPDATED

As promised, the Unofficial TFF Oscar History Page has been updated to reflect the results of the recently concluded Oscar season.  Highlighted updates are that TFF films collectively went over 600 total nominations (607 to be exact).  TFF films have won 127 Oscars.  

I have included a new nugget with this update and that is a list of TFF films that earned four or more Oscar wins.

See all the newly included info from this year's Oscars plus the new section by using the link above on the masthead.

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MTFB Oscar Update: Winners Predictions Part 2 / The Unofficial TFF Oscar Page Update

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: WINNERS PREDICTIONS PART TWO

Today we take a first pass at predicting what films will win for Adapted and Original Screenplay as well as Score. Song, Cinematography and Editing.  TFF films are indicated in Bold.

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1) Women Talking

2) All Quiet on the Western front

3) Living

4) Glass Onion

5) Top Gun: Maverick

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1) Everything Everywhere All at Once

2) The Banshees of Inisherin

3) The Fabelmans

4) TAR

5) Triangle of Sadness

SCORE

1) Babylon

2) The Fabelmans

3) All Quiet on the Western Front

4) The Banshees of Inisherin

5) Everything Everywhere All at Once

SONG

1) Naatu Naatu/RRR

2) Hold My Hand/Top Gun: Maverick

3) Lift Me Up/Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

4) This Is a Life/Everything Everywhere

5) Applause/Tell It Like aWoman

CINEMATOGRAPHY

1) Elvis

2) All Quiet on the Western Front

3) TAR

4) Empire of Light

5) Bardo

EDITING

1) Top Gun: Maverick

2) Everything Everywhere

3) Elvis

4) The Banshees of Inisherin

5)TAR

Through 12 categories of predicting, including the first six categories from last Monday's post, Everything Everywhere All at Once is the only film with more than a single predicted nomination.  I have it winning three: Picture, Supporting Actor and Original Screenplay(barely edging Banshees-so that could evolve over the next few weeks).

Through these first 12 categories I have TFF films winning two Oscars, Blanchett for Best Actress for TAR and Sarah Polley for Best Adapted Screenplay for Women Talking.

Next Monday, predictions for International Feature, Documentary Feature, Animated Feature, Production Design, Makeup/Hair and Costumes.

THE UNOFFICIAL OSCAR PAGE UPDATE

MTFB's Unofficial TFF Oscar History Page has been updated to reflect the most recent set of nominations involving TFF films.  The Oscar History page is divided into to four sections:

TFF Oscar Nominations by Year

TFF Oscar Nominations and Wins by Category and Year

TFF Nominations for Each Category from Most to Least

TFF Films with Six or More Nominations

Here's a quick jump to that page and, of course you can always access it and all of the other MTFB Bonus Pages by clicking on the links at the top of each post.

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