MTFB Oscar Update: International, Animated, Doc and More / Writer's Guild and Independent Spirits / Visitations: Blanchett and Slate

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE

We're staring down the last six days before the Oscars on Sunday night.  The last of the Guilds have spoken as well as the Independent Spirit Awards.  Oscar voting ends tomorrow.  It's almost time people.

Here are the next to last predictions for the categories of International Feature, Animated Feature, Documentary Feature,  Original Score, Original Song and Makeup/Hair.  Final predictions for all 23 categories will go up here on Sunday morning.

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

1) All Quiet on the Western Front (1)

2) Argentina 1985 (2)

3) Close (3)

4) EO (4)

5) The Quiet Girl (5)

ANIMANTED FEATURE

1) GDT's Pinocchio (1)

2) Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2)

3) Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (3)

4) Turning Red (4)

5) The Sea Beast (5)

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

1) Navalny (2)

2) Fire of Love (1)

3) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (3)

4) All That Breathes (4)

5) The House of Splinters (5)

PRODUCTION DESIGN

1) Elvis (1)

2) Babylon (2)

3) All Quiet on the Western Front (3)

4) Avatar: The Way of Water (4)

5) The Fabelmans (5)

COSTUME DESIGN

1) Elvis (1)

2) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2)

3) Babylon (3)

4) Everything Everywhere All at Once (4)

5) Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (5)

MAKEUP/HAIR

1) Elvis (1)

2) The Whale (2)

3) All Quiet on the Western Front (4)

4) The Batman (3)

5) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (5)

WRITER'S GUILD

Sarah Polley won Best Adapted Screenplay at the WGA as well as the USC Scripter Award (which focuses exclusively on Adapted screenplays) this past weekend.  That's a good indicator that the TFF #49 film is in prime position to pick up that Oscar on Sunday.  There had been a sense that All Quiet on the Western Front might have the inside track to the Oscar.  That sentiment seems quelled now with this weekend's double win for Polley.

INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

TFF #49 was represented in the list of Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday by wins for:

Best Documentary: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Best Cinemtography: TAR

Robert Altman Award: Women Talking

Best First Feature: Aftersun

Everything Everywhere All at Once was the big winner of the evening with wins for Best Feature, Direction, Actress (Yeoh), Supporting Actor (Quan), Breakthrough Performance (Hsu), Screenplay and Editing.

Complete winners are linked here at the Spirit's website.

VISITATIONS

TAR: Cate Blanchett with Variety.

MARCEL THE SHELL: Jenny Slate with Indiewire.

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MTFB Oscar Update: First Oscar Winner Predictions Part Three / The Film Stage's 100 Most Anticipated

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: OSCAR WINNER PREDICTIONS PART THREE

I'm continuing my first attempts at predicting what will win Oscars on the night of March 12th.  Today I'm adding these categories to the 12 I have previously predicted in the last two posts:  International Feature, Animated Feature, Documentary Feature, Production Design, Costume Design and Makeup/Hair.  Films are ranked in order of likelihood to win. I have highlighted TFF nominees in Bold.

INETRNATIONAL FEATURE

1) All Quiet on the Western Front

2) Argentina 1985

3) Close

4) EO

5) The Quiet Girl

ANIMANTED FEATURE

1) GDT's Pinocchio

2) Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

3) Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

4) Turning Red

5) The Sea Beast

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

1) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

2) All That Breathes

3) Navalny

4) Fire of Love

5) The House of Splinters

PRODUCTION DESIGN

1) Elvis

2) Babylon

3) Avatar: The Way of Water

4) All Quiet on the Western Front

5) The Fabelmans

COSTUME DESIGN

1) Elvis

2) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

3) Babylon

4) Everything Everywhere All at Once

5) Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

MAKEUP/HAIR

1) Elvis

2) The Whale

3) The Batman

4) All Quiet on the Western Front

5) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Through 18 predicted categories here's the rundown of what Oscar night looks like if I'm 100% accurate:

Everything Everywhere wins three Oscars for Best Picture,  Ke Huy Quan/Supporting Actor and Original Screenplay.

Elvis with four: Cinematography, Production Design, Costumes and Makeup/Hair.

The Fabelmans with one: Steven Spielberg/Best Direction.

TAR with one: Cate Blanchett/Lead Actress.

The Whale with one: Brendan Fraser/Lead Actor.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever with one: Angela Bassett/Supporting Actress.

Women Talking with one: Adapted Screenplay.

Babylon with one: Original Score.

RRR with one: Original Song.

Top Gun: Maverick with one: Editing.

All Quiet on the Western Front with one: International Feature

Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio with one: Animated Feature.

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed with one: Documentary Feature

Only two more feature categories remain to be initially predicted: Sound and Visual Effects.  Those along with the three shorts categories will be predicted in Thursday's post.

Couple of notes here.  

Everything Everywhere could easily add three more Oscars to its haul: Direction, Lead Actress and Editing.

Categories that seem most "locked" at the moment are Supporting Actor: Quan, Song: Naatu Naatu from RRR, International Feature: All Quiet...

Categories that seem to be the most contentious: Picture, Direction (Spielberg and The Daniels), Actress (Blanchett and Yeoh), Actor (Fraser and Butler with Farrell also possible), Original Screenplay (Everything Everywhere and Banshees), Documentary (literally any of them except House of Splinters),Cinematography (Again, any of the five except for Bardo), Editing (TG: Maverick and Everything Everywhere) and Makeup/Hair (Elvis and The Whale).

THE FILM STAGE'S 100 MOST ANTICIPATED AND TFF

Last month The Film Stage posted the 100 films that it have the most anticipation for in 2023.  I kind of spaced that out as I was focused on Oscar season.  Nevertheless, a month later, I have finally run through their list for possible players for TFF #50.

Last year, six films that I highlighted from The Film Stage list actually made it to TFF #49:

The Wonder

Bones and All

Broker

One Fine Morning

Women Talking 

TAR

Several films were on the 2022 list and reappear this year as they weren't released in 2022 including:

Maestro, The Holdovers, Poor Things, The Killer, Zone of Interest and Killers of the Flower Moon.

Here are maybe the best possibilities from their 2023 list:

100) El Conde

98) My Crime

93) The Royal Hotel

81) Emilia Perez

77) Butterfly Jam

72) Monster

60) Poor Things

59) AND

57) Nightbitch

48) Strangers

40) The Holdovers

38) The Island

36) Maestro

20) Fallen Leaves

19) Stone Mattress

18) Die My Love

16) The Killer

15) The End

13) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

12) Priscilla

8) Zone of Interest

6) May/December

3) The Way of the Wind

2) Killers of the Flower Moon

1) How Do You Live?

The complete two part article is linked here.

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Guilds, Globes and TFF / Another Bill Pence Remembrance / MTFB Oscar Update: Picture, Direction and More

GUILDS, GLOBES AND MORE

The films from TFF #49 (and #48) continue to have a tough time gaining traction during this awards season.  Since Monday's post we have witnessed Guild nominations from, among others, actors, directors, cinematographers and art directors.  The Producers Guild will announce its ten nominees later today and The Critics Choice Awards ceremony will occur Sunday and those two events are the last two big puzzle pieces/precursors prior to the Jan. 24th Oscar nomination announcement.  The WGA nominees won't influence voters as they will not announce their nominees until the day after Oscar nomination.  additionally, the WGA has ruled out so many probable nominees that the two lists are almost guaranteed to be wildly different.

Here's what was revealed this week from The Globes and Guilds regarding TFF films:

Golden Globes:  TFF films had a total of nine GG nominations going into Tuesday night's ceremony.  To recap, those were:

TAR (3): Best Picture-Drama, Actress (Blanchett), Screenplay

Women Talking (2): Best Screenplay and Score

Living (1): Best Actor/Drama (Nighy)

Empire of Light (1): Best Actress/Drama (Colman)

Close (1): Best Picture Not in the English Language

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

Of the nine nominations, TAR won twice for Cate Blanchett as Best Actress/Drama and for Todd Field's screenplay.  The complete list of GG winners is linked here.

Among the Guilds:

The Screen Actors Guild nominees from TFF films were: Best Actress Cate Blanchett/TAR, Best Actor: Bill Nighy/Living and Women Talking as Outstanding Cast.  Here's the link to all of the SAG nominees.

The Directors Guild nominated Todd Field/TAR.  Meanwhile, Charlotte Wells was nominated for Best First Time Director for Aftersun. The complete list of DGA Feature film nominees is linked here.  Field and Wells join Previously announced nominees for Documentary feature direction.  That list included two docs that played at TFF: Laura Poitras/All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and Matthew Heineman for Retrograde.

The American Society of Cinematographers nominated Roger Deakins/Empire of Light and Darius Khondji/Bardo for best documentary feature.  All of the ASC nominees can be found here. 

The Art Directors Guild nominated both Bardo and TAR for Best Production Design for a Contemporary Feature and Marcel the Shell with Shoes On for Animated feature.

All ADG nominees can be found here.

ANOTHER BILL PENCE REMEMBRANCE

Howie Mosvhovitz, who has worked at the Telluride Film Festival since 1992 as a part of the Student Symposium staff, penned another very nice remembrance of TFF co-founder Bill Pence who died early last month. The piece was posted by the Colorado Sun on Tuesday.

Movshovitz writes in part:

"What was Bill like? He adored the movies. He was tremendously focused and disciplined. He expected the same from people who worked on the festival. He made sure to get the best film prints possible (years before digital); he expected good projection; he chose to work with people he found capable and interesting, and with Stella and Tom Luddy created a Telluride family of some of the most devoted lovers of cinema in the world — Chuck Jones, Werner Herzog, Bertrand Tavernier, Ken Burns, Louis Malle, the international programmer Pierre Rissient. Bill Pence never made himself a star — the festival and the films were the stars."

The complete article is linked here.

In today's post I am updating Oscar predictions for Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Animated, Documentary and International features which were last posted on Dec. 29th.  TFF #49 films are in Bold.

BEST PICTURE

1) Everything Everywhere All at Once (1)

2) Top Gun: Maverick (4)

3) The Fabelmans (2)

4) The Banshees of Inisherin (3)

5) Avatar: The Way of Water (5)

6) Elvis (7)

7) TAR (6)

8) Women Talking (8)

9) All Quiet on the Western Front (11)

10) Babylon (9)

11) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (9)

12) Triangle of Sadness  (12)

Stealth possibilities: Aftersun, Living, GDT's Pinocchio, The Woman King, RRR

BEST DIRECTION

1) Steven Spielberg/The Fabelmans (1)

2) The Daniels/Everything Everywhere All at Once (2)

3) James Cameron/Avatar: The Way of Water (4)

4) Martin McDonagh/The Banshees of Inisherin (3)

5) Todd Field/TAR (5)

6) Baz Luhrman/Elvis (7)

7) Sarah Polley/Women Talking (6)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

1) GDT's Pinocchio (1)

2) Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2)

3) Turning Red (3)

4) Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (4)

5) Wendall and Wild (5)

6) Lightyear (-)

7) Strange World (7)

Out: In-Oh

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

1) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (1)

2) All That Breathes (3)

3) Fire of Love (2)

4) Descendant (5)

5) Navalny (4)

6) The Territory (6)

7) Retrograde (7)

BEST  INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

1) All Quiet on the Western Front (1)

2) Close (2)

3) Decision to Leave (3)

4) Argentina 1985 (5)

5 Eo (New)

6) Saint Omer (6)

7) Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (7)

Out: Holy Spider

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MTFB Oscar Take: Updating Lead Acting and More / The Film Stage's Top 50 for 2023 and TFF / Visitations: Nighy and Polley

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

MTFB OSCAR TAKE: UPDATING LEAD ACTING AND MORE

I am updating predictions in the categories of Best Actress, Best Actor, Cinematography, Editing and Production Design.  These were last predicted on Dec. 19th.  Past ranking is to the right of the performer in parentheses.  Performances from TFF #49 are in Bold.

BEST ACTRESS

1) Cate Blanchett/TAR (1)

2) Michelle Yeoh/Everything Everywhere All at Once (2)

3) Michelle Williams/The Fabelmans (3)

4) Danielle Deadwyler/Till (4)

5) Viola Davis/The Woman King (6)

6) Margot Robbie/Babylon (5)

7) Olivia Colman/Empire of Light (7)

BEST ACTOR

1) Brendan Fraser/The Whale (1)

2) Colin Ferrell/The Banshees of Inisherin (2)

3) Austin Butler/Elvis (3)

4) Bill Nighy/Living (4)

5) Tom Cruise/Top Gun: Maverick (5)

6) Paul Mescal/Aftersun (6)

7) Hugh Jackman/The Son (7)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

1) Top Gun: Maverick (2)

2) Avatar: The Way of Water (1)

3) The Fabelmans (3)

4) Babylon (4)

5) All Quiet on the Western Front (6)

6) Empire of Light (5)

7) TAR (New)

Out: Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

BEST FILM EDITING

1) Top Gun: Maverick (1)

2) Everything Everywhere All at Once (2)

3) The Fabelmans (3)

4) Avatar: The Way of Water (4)

5) Elvis (5)

6) The Banshees of Inisherin (6)

7) TAR (7)

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

1) Avatar: The Way of Water (4)

2) Babylon (2)

3) Elvis (1)

4) The Fabelmans (3)

5) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (5)

6) Everything Everywhere All at Once (7)

7) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

THE FILM STAGE'S TOP 50 FOR 2022 AND TFF

The Film Stage published its list of the 50 best films of 2022 and TFF films landed in nine spots:

48) Living

43) Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (TFF #48)

33) Bones and All

17) One Fine Morning

14) Armageddon Time

13) Women Talking

5) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

3) TAR

1) Aftersun

The complete Film Stage list is linked here.

VISITATIONS

LIVING

Bill Nighy from Indiewire.

WOMEN TALKING

Sarah Polley from NPR.

Sarah Polley from The Boston Globe.

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Bill Pence 1940-2022 / MTFB Oscar Update: Best Picture, Direction and More

BILL PENCE 1940-2022

Bill and Stella Pence at the 33rd telluride Film Festival

(Photo by Eugene Hernandez/Indiewire)

Sad news to report as Telluride Film Festival co-founder Bill Pence has died.  The news came over about a 24 hour period triggered by a chance viewing of Turner Classic Movies (TCM) year end TCM Remembers video that is posted to YouTube.  Mr. Pence's inclusion comes at the 2:03 mark:

What was puzzling was that I couldn't immediately find corroboration but over the course of the last day or so I have been able to confirm the news.  One piece of corroboration came last night via The Telluride Daily Planet's online edition which published a tribute from long time TFF staffer Jim Bedford.  You can find that linked here.

Another came with the discovery of an undated post from The Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth.  That post is undated and is linked here.

From Bedford's Telluride Daily Planet article:

"Bill Pence died on Dec. 6, 2022, after a long illness. He is survived by wife Stella, daughters Zazie and Lara, four grandchildren, and many others whose lives he influenced with his work, direction, and love. Bill's fire burned so very brightly and touched so many. Those who worked for him did it as much to not disappoint him as to carry on his vision. No one wanted to be the one who screwed up the Telluride Film Festival."

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: BEST PICTURE, DIRECTION AND MORE

In today's post I am updating Oscar predictions for Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Animated, Documentary and International features which were last posted on Dec. 15th.  TFF #49 films are in Bold.

BEST PICTURE

1) Everything Everywhere All at Once (3)

2) The Fabelmans (1)

3) The Banshees of Inisherin (2)

4) Top Gun: Maverick (5)

5) Avatar: The Way of Water (8)

6) TAR (6)

7) Elvis (7)

8) Women Talking (4)

9) Babylon (9)

10) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (10)

11) All Quiet on the Western Front (New)

12) Triangle of Sadness  (12)

Out: The Woman King

BEST DIRECTION

1) Steven Spielberg/The Fabelmans (1)

2) The Daniels/Everything Everywhere All at Once (5)

3) Martin McDonagh/The Banshees of Inisherin (3)

4) James Cameron/Avatar: The Way of Water (7)

5) Todd Field/TAR (4)

6) Sarah Polley/Women Talking (2)

7) Baz Luhrman/Elvis (New)

Out: Damien Chazelle/Babylon

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

1) GDT's Pinocchio (1)

2) Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2)

3) Turning Red (3)

4) Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (4)

5) Wendall and Wild (5)

6) Inu-Oh (New)

7) Strange World

Out: Lightyear

BEST DOUMENATRY FEATURE

1) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (3)

2) Fire of Love (2)

3) All That Breathes (4)

4) Navalny (5)

5) Descendant (6)

6) The Territory (7)

7) Retrograde (New)

BEST  INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

1) All Quiet on the Western Front (2)

2) Close (1)

3) Decision to Leave (3)

4) Argentina 1985 (5)

5) Holy Spider (4)

6) Saint Omer (6)

7) Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (7)

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MTFB Oscar Update: Lead Acting Plus More / Indiewire's Top 50 and TFF / Hollywood Critics Association and TFF / Visitations: Inarittu, Deakins, Polley and More

MTFB OSCAR TAKE: LEAD ACTING UPDATE 

I am updating predictions in the categories of Best Actress and Best Actor and adding first predictions for Cinematography, Editing and Production Design.  These were last predicted on Dec. 5th.  Past ranking is to the right of the performer in parentheses.  Performances from TFF #49 are in Bold.

BEST ACTRESS

1) Cate Blanchett/TAR (1)

2) Michelle Yeoh/Everything Everywhere All at Once (2)

3) Michelle Williams/The Fabelmans (3)

4) Danielle Deadwyler/Till (4)

5) Margot Robbie/Babylon (5)

6) Viola Davis/The Woman King (6)

7) Olivia Colman/Empire of Light (7)

BEST ACTOR

1) Brendan Fraser/The Whale (1)

2) Colin Ferrell/The Banshees of Inisherin (2)

3) Austin Butler/Elvis (3)

4) Bill Nighy/Living (4)

5) Tom Cruise/Top Gun: Maverick (5)

6) Paul Mescal/Aftersun (New)

7) Hugh Jackman/The Son (6)

Out: Gabriel LaBelle/The Fabelmans

BEST CINEMATOGRAHY

1) Avatar: The Way of Water

2) Top Gun: Maverick

3) The Fabelmans

4) Babylon

5) Empire of Light

6) All Quiet on the Western Front

7) Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

BEST FILM EDITING

1) Top Gun: Maverick

2) Everything Everywhere All at Once

3) The Fabelmans

4) Avatar: The Way of Water

5) Elvis

6) The Banshees of Inisherin

7) TAR

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

1) Elvis

2) Babylon

3) The Fabelmans

4) Avatar: The Way of Water

5) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

6) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

7) Everything Everywhere All at Once

INDIEWIRE'S TOP 50 AND TFF

Indiewire published its survey of more than 160 film critics and journalists on Wednesday this past week and TFF films nabbed nine of the 50 spots.  I have listed them in the order they appear on the list:

43) Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

34) Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (TFF #48)

31) Three Minutes: A Lengthening (TFF #48)

20) Bones and All

19) Living

18) Women Talking

10) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

2) Aftersun

1) TAR

The complete list of 50 films is linked here.

HOLLYWOOD CRITICS ASSOCAITION AND TFF

The Hollywood Critics Association announced their nominees for the best in cinema for 2022 on Thursday.  Eight TFF films landed at least one nomination and TFF films earned 20 nominations overall.  Women Talking and TAR led the way with five nominations each.  Here's the rundown:

Women Talking (5): Best Picture, Direction, Supporting Actor (Whishaw), Adapted Screenplay and Ensemble.  Women Talking had also been nominated for two HCA Creative Arts Awards on Dec. 8th for Best Casting Direction and Score.

TAR (5): Best Picture, Direction, Actress (Blanchett), Original Screenplay and Best Independent Film.

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On From (TFF #48) (3): Best Independent Film, Animated Film, Vocal Performance/Slate.

Aftersun (3): Best Independent Film, First Feature, Actor (Mescal).

Bones and All (1): Best Horror Film.

Close (1): Best International Film,

Good Night Oppy (1): Best Documentary,

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (1): Best Documentary.

Everything Everywhere All at Once led all films with a total of nine nominations.  Here us the complete list of nominees from The HCA.

VISITATIONS: INARITTU, DEAKINS, POLLEY AND MORE

Alejandro G. Inarittu on Bardo from Indiewire.

Alejandro G. Inarittu on Bardo from Awards Radar.

Roger Deakins on Empire of Light from Awards Watch.

Sarah Polley with Francis Ford Coppola on Women Talking from Variety.

Micheal Ward on Empire of Light from Next Best Picture.

Melissa Lesh and Trevor Frost on Wildcat from Indiewire.

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MTFB OSCAR TAKE: UPDATING BEST PICTURE AND DIRECTION...ADDING DOCUMENTARY, ANIMATED FEATURE AND INTERNATIONAL FILM

In today's post I am updating Oscar predictions for Best Picture and Best Direction which were last posted on Dec. 1st.  In addition I am including first predictions for Best Animated, Documentary and International films.  TFF #49 films are in Bold.

BEST PICTURE

1) The Fabelmans (1)

2) The Banshees of Inisherin (2)

3) Everything Everywhere All at Once (5)

4) Women Talking (3)

5) Top Gun: Maverick (4)

6) TAR (6)

7) Elvis (7)

8) Avatar: The Way of Water (9)

9) Babylon (8)

10) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (9)

11) The Woman King (New)

12) Triangle of Sadness  (10)

Out: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (11)

Stealth BP possibles: RRR, She Said, GDT's Pinocchio, Living

BEST DIRECTION

1) Steven Spielberg/The Fabelmans (1)

2) Sarah Polley/Women Talking (2)

3) Martin McDonagh/The Banshees of Inisherin (3)

4) Todd Field/TAR (4)

5) The Daniels/EEAAO (5)

6) Damien Chazelle/Babylon (6)

7) James Cameron/Avatar: The Way of Water (New)

Out: Rueben Ostlund/Triangle of Sadness

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

1) GDT's Pinocchio

2) Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

3) Turning Red

4) Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

5) Wendall and Wild

6) Strange World

7) Lightyear

BEST DOUMENATRY FEATURE

1) Good Night Oppy

2) Fire of Love

3) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

4) All That Breathes

5) Navalny

6) Descendant

7) The Territory

BEST  INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

1) Close

2) All Quiet on the Western Front

3) Decision to Leave

4) Holy Spider

5) Argentina 1985

6) Saint Omer

7) Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

CRITICS CHOICE NOMINATIONS

The Critics Choice Association named their nominees for film superlatives on Wednesday morning.  Nine different Telluride films earned at least one nomination with Todd Field's TAR leading the way with seven total nominations.  Here's the breakdown:

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

Women Talking (6): Best Picture, Direction, Supporting Actress (Buckley), Ensemble, Adapted Screenplay and Score.

Aftersun (3): Best Actor (Mescal), Young Actor (Corio), Original Screenplay

Living (2): Best Actor (Nighy), Adapted Screenplay

Empire of Light (1): Cinematography

Armageddon Time (1): Best Young Actor (Repeta)

Bardo (1): Best Foreign Language Film

Close (1): Best Foreign Language Film

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (1): Best Animated Film

Everything Everywhere All at Once led all films with 14 nominations.

You can fins the complete list of nominees linked here.

TRAILER AND POSTER FOR WOMEN TALKING

New views of Sarah Polley's Women Talking with a new poster and a trailer.  Here's the trailer via YouTube:

 And the new poster:

VISITATIONS: INARITTU, POLLEY AND MORE

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarittu on Bardo from Gold Derby.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarittu on Bardo from The Hollywood Reporter.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarittu on Bardo from The Playlist.

Sarah Polley on Women Talking from The Hollywood Reporter.

Mary McCartney on If These Walls Could Sing from Solzy at the Movies.

Micheal Ward on Empire of Light from Indiewire.

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MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SCREENPLAYS

Today I am updating predictions in the categories of Best Original and Adapted Screenplay.  These were last predicted on Nov. 14th.  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 (3)

4) The Whale (4)

5) Living (6)

6) White Noise (5)

7) Top Gun: Maverick (7)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1) Everything Everywhere All at Once (2)

2) The Banshees of Inisherin (1)

3) The Fabelmans (3)

4) TAR (4)

5) Triangle of Sadness (5)

6) Babylon (7)

7) Aftersun (New)

Out: Armageddon Time

GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS AND TFF

It was a tough morning for TFF films today as TFF #49 (and #48) films were nominated for a meager total of nine Golden Globes.  TAR led TFF films with three nominations.  Here's the list:

TAR (3): Best Picture-Drama, Actress (Blanchett), Screenplay

Women Talking (2): Best Screenplay and Score

Living (1): Best Actor/Drama (Nighy)

Empire of Light (1): Best Actress/Drama (Colman)

Close (1): Best Picture Not in the English Language

 

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

The complete Golden Globes list of nominees is linked here.

LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION  AND NEW YORK FILM CRITICS ONLINE AND TFF

The Los Angeles Critics showed quite a bit of love to Telluride films Sunday with Todd Field's TAR getting the most of it.  TAR was named Best Film, and Field was named for Best Direction and Best Screenplay while Cate Blanchett was named co-winner for Best Lead Performance.  TAR also was runner-up for Best Editing.

Other TFF participants winning plaudits from the L.A. critics were:

Bill Nighy co-winner for Best Lead Performance in Living.

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed for Best Documentary

Aftersun for Best Editing

Jesse Buckley was co-runner-up for Best Supporting Performance for Women Talking

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On was runner-up for Best Animated Film (TFF #48)

The complete rundown from the LAFCA is linked here.

Meanwhile the New York Film Critics Online were much less enamored of TFF films with limited mentions.

TAR and Women Talking were named to the NYFCO 10 Best of 2022 list.

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed was named Best Documentary

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On was named Best Animated Film

Charlotte Wells was named Best Debut Director for Aftersun

The NYFCO complete list can be found here courtesy of Next Best Picture.

NBR AND AFI AND TFF #49

The national Board of Review and the American Film Institute named their "Best Of" lists this week.  Here's how Telluride films fared from those organizations.

The National Board of Review awarded the following to TFF films:

Best Directorial Debut: Charlotte Wells/Aftersun

Best Animated Film: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (from TFF #48)

Best International Film: Close

Best Documentary: Sr.

Best Acting Ensemble: Women Talking

Freedom of Expression Award: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Top 10 Films of the Year included Aftersun and Women Talking

Top 5 Documentaries included All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and Wildcat

Top 10 Independent Films included Armageddon Time, Living and The Wonder

Top Gun: Maverick was named Best Film of the Year by NBR.

The full NBR list is linked here.

The American Film Institute list of the the 10 Best Films of 2022 included TFF #49 films TAR and Women Talking.

The full AFI list is linked here.

VISITATIONS: MENDES, INARITTU, POLLEY AND MORE

Sam Mendes on Empire of Light from The Playlist.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarittu on Bardo from Deadline.

Sarah Polley on Women Talking from Deadline.

Dean Fleischer Camp on Marcel the Shell with Shoes On from Awards Daily.

Laura Poitras on All the Beauty and the Bloodshed from A. Frame.

Sheila McCarthy on Women Talking from Pop Culture Confidential.

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