Oscar History and TFF: Best Actor / Oscar Predictions Update: Best Actress / RIP Robert Forster / Trailer for Tell Me Who I Am

OSCAR HISTORY AND TFF: BEST ACTOR

I'm continuing the  breakdown of the history between TFF and The Academy Awards as related to each of the feature categories.  Today is the Best Actor nominees from films that have screened at the festival since its inception in 1974:


1989- Daniel Day Lewis/My Left Foot-WINNER
1990- Jeremy Irons/Reversal of Fortune-WINNER, Gerard Depardieu/Cyrano DeBergerac
1992-Stephen Rea/The Crying Game
1996-Billy Bob Thornton/Sling Blade
1997- Nick Nolte/Affliction
1999- Richard Farnsworth/The Straight Story
2000- Geoffrey Rush/Quills, Sean Penn/Sweet and Lowdown
2003- Bill Murray/Lost in Translation
2005- Philip Seymour Hoffman/Capote-WINNER, Heath Ledger/Brokeback Mountain, Joaquin Phoenix/Walk the Line
2006- Forrest Whitaker/The Last King of Scotland-WINNER, Peter O'Toole/Venus
2007- Daniel Day Lewis/There Will Be Blood-WINNER (scenes screened)
2008- Brad Pitt/The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (scenes screened)
2009- George Clooney/Up in the Air
2010-Colin Firth/The King's Speech-WINNER, James Franco/127 Hours, Javier Bardem/Biutiful
2011- Jean Dujardin/The Artist-WINNER, George Clooney/The Descendants
2013- Bruce Dern/Nebraska, Chiwetel Ejiofor/12 Years a Slave
2014- Michael Keaton/Birdman, Benedict Cumberbatch/The Imitation Game, Steve Carell/Foxcatcher
2015- Michael Fassbender/Steve Jobs
2016-Casey Affleck-Manchester by the Sea-WINNER, Ryan Gosling/La La Land
2017- Gary Oldman/Darkest Hour-WINNER


Overall 32 Best Actor nominations with eight winners...Daniel Day Lewis twice.


OSCAR PREDICTIONS UPDATE: BEST ACTRESS

Here are my current predictions for the Best Actress.  This updates the last Best Actress set of predictions posted on Sept. 19th.  The actresses last prediction position is listed in parentheses.  TFF #46 films are in Bold.

1) Renee Zellweger/Judy (1)
2) Scarlett Johansson/Marriage Story (2)
3) Cynthia Ervio/Harriet (3)
4)  Awkwafina/The Farewell (4)
5) Lupita N'yongo/Us (-)

Other possibles: Saorise Ronan/Little Women, Alfre Woodard/Clemency, Felicity Jones/The Aeronauts, Charlize Theron/Bombshell


RIP ROBERT FORSTER

Just a brief note on the death of actor Robert Forster.  Like a lot of people who love film, I thought Forster was a solid performer every time I saw him.  I know a lot of folks talk about Pam Grier's star turn in Jackie Brown but I always thought Forster in his comeback role in the film (thanks to Tarantino's choice to cast him) was, perhaps, the more impressive.

Forster, to the best of my ability to discern, appeared in two films that screened at TFFs.  Alexander Payne's The Descendants (2011) and David Lynch's 2001 masterpiece Mulholland Drive.

Like a lot of you, I had just watched El Camino and found out hours later that Forster was gone.  Seemed like an odd coincidence and...btw...he's great in it.
Forster was 78.

TRAILER FOR TELL ME WHO I AM

Netflix released a trailer in the middle of the last week for the TFF #46 documentary Tell Me Who I Am from director Ed Perkins.  The doc focuses on the story of identical twins one of which has survived a terrible motorcycle accident and awakes from a coma with no memory.

Here's the trailer from YouTube:

Tell Me Who I Am will appear on Netflix on Friday.

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Start to Judge "The Judge"/Birdman's Eye View/Last Two Great TFF Films I Didn't See at TFF

Welcome to Friday...my last day in Kansas City at The National Speech Tournament...back home to the Oklahoma Panhandle tomorrow...


START TO JUDGE "THE JUDGE"

Last week, I posted that about the Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall starrer "The Judge" which sort up popped up out of nowhere in terms pf Telluride consideration.  However, now that the possibility exists, I'm going to keep an eye on it, at least for awhile.  To that end, yesterday saw a blizzard of stories/posts to coincide with the release of a trailer.  Here it is from YouTube/thejudgemovie.com:

Here are links to a number of stories that ran with the trailer yesterday:

From Rope of Silicon:

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/first-trailer-poster-judge-starring-robert-downey-jr/

Variety:

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/robert-downey-the-judge-robert-duvall-1201224260/

The Hollywood Reporter:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/judge-trailer-robert-downey-jr-713528

HitFix:

http://www.hitfix.com/news/robert-downey-jr-is-here-to-make-you-cry-in-tearjerking-the-judge-trailer#42tpugIItmkHzCXo.99

The Playlist:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-first-trailer-for-the-judge-starring-robert-downey-jr-robert-duvall-and-vera-farmiga-20140619

"The Judge" hits theaters Oct. 10.

BIRDMAN'S EYE VIEW

via The Playlist

The Playlist also had a story up yesterday about the new Inarritu/Keaton collaboration "Birdman" with new photos AND some crazy speculation that the film might include an amazingly long tracking shot.  Check the story here:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/new-images-from-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritus-birdman-starring-michael-keaton-and-edward-norton-20140620

THE LAST TWO GREAT TFF FILMS THAT I DIDN'T SEE AT TFF

This week I've been listing ten great films that I HAVE seen and that DID play at Telluride, but I didn't see them there.  Thus far the list has included "Brokeback Mountain", Amelie", "The Straight Story", "Sling Blade", "Ed Wood", Capote", "Blue Velvet" and "The Lives of Others".  Today's final two additions are:

Backtracking just a bit to 2001 and David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive".  Yes, Lynch made my list three times.  The first time I saw the film I was modestly impressed but it has gotten better every time I've seen it. "Mulholland" is a Lynchian take on the whole world of film making couched in a "murder mystery'.  To my mind, it's the best thing Naomi Watts has ever done.

And 2009, Michael Haneke's masterpiece "The White Ribbon".  Haneke's brilliant black and white meditation on evil and how people can become what they become. It's still one of the most haunting things I've ever seen on a movie screen.

More tomorrow...

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