Michael's Telluride Film Blog : Parallel Mothers

Monday, March 30, 2026

Another Look at Early Oscar Possibles and TFF/ Cannes Speculation from Deadline

ANOTHER LOOK AT OSCAR POSSIBLES AND TFF

As we march closer to the official announcement of films playing the Cannes Film Fest (see below), MTFB continues looking at really early Oscar predictions from a number Oscarologists to they to at least begin creating a list of possibilities for TFF #53. Today we focus on Joey Magidson's Awards Radar. Magidson posted his list of 25 possible Best Picture nominees. From that list I culled the following as possible Telluride (*** indicates the director has had a previous TFF entry):

All of a Sudden/Hamaguchi/NEON

Artificial/Guadagnino***/Amazon-MGM

Behemoth!/T. Gilroy/Searchlight

Being Heumann/Heder/Apple TV

Clarissa/Erisi/NEON

Digger/Inarritu***/Oct. 2nd/Warner Brothers

Fjord/Mungiu***/NEON

I Play Rocky/P. Farrelly/Nov. 20th/Amazon-MGM

Jack of Spades/J. Coen***

Narnia: The Magician's Nephew/Gerwig***/Nov. 26th/Netflix

Paper Tiger/Gray***

A Place in Hell/Dumont/NEON

Saturn Return/Kwedar/Netflix

The Social Reckoning/Sorkin/Oct. 9th/Sony Pictures

Tony/M. Johnson/A24

The Uprising/Greengrass/Focus Features

Wild Horse Nine/McDonagh/Nov. 6th/Searchlight

The complete list of 25 films from awards Radar is here.

https://awardsradar.com/best-picture/

CANNES SPECULATION FROM DEADLINE

A couple of weeks back Deadline.com posted a large piece about possible Cannes films. MTFB continues to watch those lists for clues to films that could do the Cannes/Telluride Two-Step. From that Deadline piece, here are some films that could play both places:

1949/Pawlikowski

All of a Sudden/Hamaguchi/NEON

Bitter Christmas/Almodovar***/Sony Pictures Classics

Bucking Fastard/Herzog***

Fjord/Mungiu***/NEON

Gentle Monster/Kreutzer

Hombre al Agua/Bernal***

A Long Winter/Haigh

Minotaur/Zvyagintsev***

Parallel Tales/Farhadi***

Sheep in the Box/Kore-eda***/NEON

The Unknown/Harari/NEON

The full list from Deadline is linked here.
https://deadline.com/2026/03/cannes-2026-predictions-whats-international-mix-1236751075/

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Thursday, July 1, 2021

Ten Bets #2 for TFF #48 / A New Possibility Emerges / Trailer for Many Saints

TEN BETS #2 FOR TFF #48

Hi there... from Massachusetts.

Yes, the Post-ish-Covid 2021 Art Show Circuit continues with the second and final show of the summer season so I am on the road.

Blew a tire on I-90 today, got the donut spare on after a bit of a struggle and thanks to Conner at Mavis Tire in Chatham, NY and the crew there...got a new tire on before the end of the business day.

Despite the delayed arrival and the eminent Berkshires Art Fest, here's your Thursday edition of MTFB and, as promised, an updated Ten Bets for TFF #48...there's a wrinkle or two.

Last week's Ten Bets (and "Other Possibles" list):

1) The Power of the Dog/Campion

2) Muhammad Ali/Burns, Burns and McMahon

3) The Card Counter/Schrader

4) Nightmare Alley/Del Toro

5) The Velvet Underground/Haynes

6) Bergman Island/Hansen-Love

7) Cow/Arnold

8) A Hero/Farhadi

9) Blonde/Dominik

10) The Story of Looking/Cousins

Don't discount the possibility of: Dune, Julia, Mothering Sunday, Petite Maman, Where Is Anne Frank?, Paris 13th District and The Eyes of Tammy Faye.

News this week about films from Pedro Almodovar (see below) and Mark Cousins has altered this week's Ten Bets which look like this:

1) The Power of the Dog/Campion

2) Muhammad Ali/Burns. Burns and McMahon

3) The Story of Looking/Cousins

4) Madres Paralelas (Parallel Mothers)/Almodovar

5) The Card Counter/Schrader

6) The Storms of Jeremy Thomas/Cousins

7) Nightmare Alley/Del Toro

8) A Hero/Farhadi

9) The Velvet Underground/Haynes

10) Cow/Arnold

Other Possibles: Dune, Julia, Mothering Sunday, Petite Maman, Where Is Anne Frank?, Paris 13th District and The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Blonde and Bergman Island.

Will update again next Thursday.

A NEW POSSIBILITY EMERGES

We found out this week that Pedro Almodovar's Parallel Mothers and Mark Cousins' The Storms of Jeremy Thomas are both going to be available to program for TFF #48 if Telluride Fest programmers decide to include them.

Almodovar, who for a long while had a run at Telluride recently has been absent. There had been a 13 year stretch between 2006's Volver and TFF #46 in 2019 when Pain and Glory screened. I think that return and the success of P&G (Two Oscar nominations for Best International Feature and for Best Actor for Antonio Banderas) makes Parallel Mothers, starring 2006 TFF Tribute recipient Penelope Cruz, a very real possibility for a TFF #48 slot.

Parallel Mothers is set for release in Spain on Sept. 10th.

TRAILER FOR MANY SAINTS

One of the films that Warner Bros. could bring to Telluride is the Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark. The film is set for an Oct. 1st release date (after some juggling among the WB lineup this past week). Warners dropped a trailer for the film which you can enjoy here thanks to YouTube: