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THE F(ilm) A(wards) C(learinghouse) UPDATES SUPPORTING CATEGORIES
Our last look at the Supporting Actress and Actor categories came back on Nov. 6th. After a month of that has seen the actual beginnings of award frenzy, there has been some movement in those categories.
As always, films/performers from TFF #44 films are
Bold.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Here's where the category stood a month ago:
1) Alison Janney/I, Tonya
2) Laurie Metcalf/Lady Bird
3) Holly Hunter/The Big Sick
4) Octavia Spencer/The Shape of Water
5) Kristen Scott Thomas/Darkest Hour
Others: Melissa Leo/Novitiate, Mary J. Blige/Mudbound,
Hong Chau/Downsizing
And here's today's update:
1) Alison Janney/I, Tonya
2) Laurie Metcalf/Lady Bird
3) Holly Hunter/The Big Sick
4) Octavia Spencer/The Shape of Water
5) Mary J. Blige/Mudbound
Others:
Hong Chau/Downsizing, Leslie Manville/Phantom Thread, Melissa Leo/Novitiate
Comment: Phantom Thread screenings have moved Manville into the convo (as well as the film and Daniel Day Lewis into stronger positions in the Best Picture and Actor categories. Paul Thomas Anderson is also a serious player for Original Screenplay and possibly Director). Scott Thomas falls out of immediate consideration which mirrors the general pull back from Darkest Hour that seems to have developed. It's still regarded as a two pony race between Janney and Metcalf.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
The Best Supporting Actor race looked like this a month ago:
1) Willem Dafoe/The Florida Project
2) Sam Rockwell/Three Billboards
3) Armie Hammer/Call Me By Your Name
4) Michael Stuhlbarg/Call Me By Your Name
5) Michael Shannon/The Shape of Water
Others: Mark Rylance/Dunkirk,
Ben Mendelsohn/Darkest Hour, Richard Jenkins/The Shape of Water
Today's update looks like this:
1) Willem Dafoe/The Florida Project
2) Sam Rockwell/Three Billboards
3) Armie Hammer/Call Me By Your Name
4) Michael Stuhlbarg/Call Me By Your Name
5) Mark Rylance/Dunkirk
Others:
Richard Jenkins/The Shape of Water, Ben Mendelsohn/Darkest Hour, Ray Romano/The Big Sick
Comment: The top four stay solidly the same and, as with the women, the real race appears to be between the top two: Dafoe and Rockwell with everyone else jockeying for the "honor to be nominated" spots. Michael Shannon's performance has lost forward momentum and that has boosted Rylance and Jenkins (who, of course, has been my personal choice on this category since seeing the film in Telluride over Labor Day).
NY LOVES LADY BIRD AND LA LOVES NAME AND SHAPE
The New York Film Critics Circle named their "Best Of" for 2017 on Thursday with Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird winning the top honor as Best Film. Lady Bird star Saoirse Ronan was also honored as Best Actress. The other TFF #44 film named by the NYFCC was Agnes Varda and JR's Faces Places as Best Non-fiction film.
Other key winners were:
Direction: Sean Baker/The Florida Project
Actor: Timothee Chalamet/Call Me By Your Name
Supporting Actress: Tiffany Haddish/Girl's Trip
Supporting Actor: Willem Dafoe/The Florida Project
Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson/Phantom Thread
The complete list of NYFCC winners is here from Variety.
Meanwhile, yesterday, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association named their film superlatives for 2017 which was dominated by Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name and Guillermo Del Toro's The Shape of Water.
TFF #44 recognition from the LAFCA was spearheaded by the three awards that Shape of Water received: Best Direction for Del Toro (in a tie with Guadagnino), Best Actress for Sally Hawkins and Best Cinematography. It was also runner-up for Production Design and Score.
Other TFF #44 winners were Laurie Metcalf as Best Supporting Actress for her role in Lady Bird, Agnes Varda and JR's documentary Faces Places and Andrey Zvyagintsev's Loveless which tied with BPM for Best Foreign Language Film.
The L.A. critics also recognized Lady Bird writer/director Greta Gerwig with their New Generation Award.
Awards Daily's
Sasha Stone says that Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird might be the Oscar frontrunner right now. I'm not all the way there yet. I still think that if I were a betting fellow that the best bet is still Chris Nolan's Dunkirk. That said, I have been suggesting for almost a month now that I do think the preferential ballot maybe does boost Lady Bird and Sasha is way smarter and more experienced than most of the planet about Oscar.
Call Me By Your Name was recognized as Best Film (The Florida Project was named runner-up) along with recognition for Timothee Chalamet as Best Actor and the nod for Guadagnino's direction.
Coverage of the LAFCA awards is here from:
Indiewire
Deadline
Entertainment Weekly
THE WEEK AND A HALF AHEAD
Today's post continues its theme of focusing on the awards season as I turn to
Sasha Stone's/Awards Daily's weekend post that identifies all of the awards dates/deadlines that are looming over the next ten days or so. Key organizations and the dates of their reveals are:
Dec. 6th-Critic's Choice Nominations are announced.
Dec. 7th-American Film Institute announce their films of the year.
Dec. 11th-Golden Globe nominations are announced.
Dec. 13th-SAG-AFTRA nominations are announced.
And after that we won't see any other major group announcements until after the first of the year.
PROFILE AND INTERVIEW GRAB BAG:
Here's a collection of interviews and profiles I've collected the past few days about films that appeared as a part of the program for the 2017 edition of The SHOW:
Downsizing film editor Kevin Trent from Variety.
And also from Awards Circuit.
Wonderstruck (and TFF #44 Tribute recipient) Director of Photography Ed Lachman from Deadline.
20+ images from Guillermo Del Toro's The Shape of Water from Entertainment Weekly.
Director Rebecca Miller on her doc Arthur Miller: Writer from Indiewire.
Darkest Hour score composer Dario Marianelli from Indiewire.
That's your wrap from MTFB for this Monday, Dec. 4th. I'll be back with more on Thursday!
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