MTFB Oscar take: Supporting Acting and Screenplays / Cover-up Trailer and Interview / 1.5 Mill

MTFB OSCAR TAKE: UPDATING SUPPORTING ACTING AND SCREENPLAYS

Before we head into the predictions for Oscar categories that haven't appeared in MTFB thus far this season; here are the updated predictions for the Supporting Acting and Screenplay categories.  TFF #52 films and performers are in Bold.  A film's previous ranking is to the right of the title in parentheses.

SUPPRORTING ACTRESS

1) Ariana Grande/Wicked: For Good (2)

2) Teyana Taylor/One Battle After Another (1)

3) Amy Madigan/Weapons (4)

4) Elle Fanning/Sentimental Value (3)

5) Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas/Sentimental Value (5)

Others: Regina Hall/One Battle After Another, Gwyneth Paltrow/Marty Supreme and Odessa A'Zion/Marty Supreme.

SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Stellan Skarsgard/Sentimental Value (1)

2) Sean Penn/One Battle After Another (2)

3) Paul Mescal/Hamnet (3)

4) Adam Sandler/Jay Kelly (4)

5) Benicio del Toro/One Battle After Another (5)

Others: Jacob Elordi/Frankenstein, DelRoy Lindo/Sinners and Jeremy Strong/Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1) Sinners (1)

2) Sentimental Value (2)

3) Marty Supreme (3)

4) Jay Kelly (4)

5) It Was Just an Accident (5)

Others: Is This Thing On?, The Secret Agent and Weapons.

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1) Hamnet (1)

2) One Battle After Another (2)

3) Bugonia (4)

4) Train Dreams (5

5) Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (3)

Others: Frankenstein, No Other Choice and Wicked: For Good.

COVER-UP TRAILER AND INTERVIEW

Here's the official trailer for Laura Poitras' documentary about reporter Seymour Hersh.  from Netflix via YouTube:

Additionally, an interview from Variety with Poitras and co-director and Mark Obenhaus.

That is linked here.

1.5 MILL

I have usually been pretty diligent about noticing viewership milestones but in the craziness of the last three months I overlooked that MTFB had passed a fairly significant one.  according to the view tracker MTFB passed One and a half million views somewhere around Halloween.

As of this morning I have posted 2401 times.  2402 if you count this one.  That means an average of 634 views per post.  

The most viewed post is from Jan. 4, 2018.  It's about Film Guilds and the Oscar season and an interview from Variety with Saoirse Ronan and Greta Gerwig on Lady Bird. Over 2,750 views.

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MTFB Oscar Update: Screenplays / Golden Globe Nominations and TFF / LA Film Critics and New York Critics Online / NBR and AFI and TFF / Visitations: Mendes, Inarittu, Polley and More

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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