Oscar #95 in the Books / Wild Life Trailer / Visitations: Oscar Winner Sarah Polley

OSCAR #95 IN THE BOOK

Here are your winners from last night's 95th Academy Awards:

BEST PICTURE: Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST DIRECTION: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert/Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST ACTRESS: Michelle Yeoh/Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST ACTOR: Brendan Fraser/The Whale 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jamie Lee Curtis/Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Ke Huy Quan/Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Women Talking

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE: All Quiet on the Western Front

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Navalny

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: All Quiet on the Western Front

BEST ORIGINAL SONG: Naatu Naatu/RRR

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: All Quiet on the Western Front

BEST EDITING: Everything Everywhere All at  Once

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: All Quiet on the Western Front

BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

BEST MAKEUP/HAIR: The Whale

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: Avatar: The Way of Water

BEST SOUND: Top Gun: Maverick

BEST ANIMATED SHORT: The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT: An Irish Goodbye

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT: The Elephant Whispers

COMMENTARY:

TFF films go 1 of 17 on Oscar night #95 with the only winning coming for Sarah Polley's Adapted Screenplay for Women Talking,  TAR, which led all Telluride films this year with six nominations ended the night with no wins.  TAR was in good company as The Banshees of Inisherin went 0/9, Elvis was 0/8 and The Fabelman's was 0/7.

Everything Everywhere All at Once won seven Oscars, the most since Slumdog Millionaire back at the 2009 ceremony. Picture, Directors, Actress, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay and Editing.

All Quiet on the Western Front picked up a four trophies for a very solid night: International Feature, Cinematography, Production Design and Original Score.

The only other film to win more than one Oscar was The Whale winning for Best Actor and Makeup/Hair.

My track record was 18/23 for a rate of  78.3%  That's about par for my course historically.  I was particularly pleased that I landed all three of the winners in the Shorts categories.  I don't think I've ever done that.

I missed Actor (I had Butler) and Supporting Actress (Condon), Production Design, Costumes and Makeup/Hair.

Now that Oscar 2023 is in the books, it's time to move to speculating about films that make the TFF #50 lineup in earnest.  One of the first things to look at will be those way-too-early Oscar '24 predictions that will appear in the next few days.  

WILD LIFE TRAILER

One of the buzziest titles at Telluride last September was Wild Life.  It's from the same crew-Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi-  that did Free Solo and The Rescue.  The film wasn't screened as a part of South By Southwest last night.

In conjunction with the SXSW screening and ahead of its public release comes a trailer which you can see here via YouTube:

VISITATIONS

Oscar winner Sarah Polley talks to Deadline about her award winning Women Talking.

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Two 2023 Oscar Lists: Indiewire and World of Reel / Coming Soon to a Theater Near You

TWO OSCAR 2023 LISTS

Both Indiewire and World of Reel posted lengthy Oscar Best Picture lists for 2023 this past week.  Indiwire's list had 35 titles while World of Reel had a list of 23.  Between the two list there were 11 films that made both lists (in no particular order):

Baz Lurman's Elvis

Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon 

Steven Spielberg's The Fablemans

Maria Schrader's She Said

Damien Chazelle's Babylon

Kasi Lemmons' I Wanna Dance with Somebody

Kelly Reicharadt's Showing Up

Martin McDaonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Bardo

Florian Zeller's The Son

Todd Field's TAR

Your five best Telluride bets from this combined list: Bardo, Showing Up, The Son, Babylon and TAR.

You can take a look at the complete lists and  analysis for each outlet.  

The Indiewire post is here.

The World of Reel post is here.

COMNG SOON TO A THEATER NEAR YOU

The Film Stage posted a list of 40+ films with release dates this summer which is revelatory in two ways in as far as Telluride film fans are concerned.  First, the list lets us know what films are OFF the list for TFF consideration i.e. David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future.  The list also tells us when films that have screened (or would have screened at Telluride in one case) will be released.

According to the article these TFF films are pout as follows:

TFF #47 announced film Apples on June 24th.

From TFF #48:

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On on June 24th

Bitterbrush on June 24th 

Three Minutes: A Lengthening on August 19th

The complete Film Stage post is linked here.

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