MTFB Oscar Update: Screenplays / Will and Harper Tops Critics' Choice / Interviews and Profiles: Deadwyler, Keogahn and More

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SCREENPLAYS

Here are updated nomination predictions for the Screenplay categories for the 97th Academy Awards.  These categories were last predicted on Oct. 31st.  An film's previous rank appears to the right of their names in parentheses.  TFF #51 actors/films are in Bold.

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1) Conclave (1)

2) Emilia Perez (2)

3) Sing Sing (3)

4) Nickel Boys (4)

5) The Room Next Door (-)

Others: Dune Part Two, A Complete Unknown and Inside Out 2.

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1) Anora (1)

2) The Brutalist (2)

3) A Real Pain (3)

4) September 5 (4)

5) Saturday Night (5)

Others: The Seed of the Sacred Fig, The Substance and Blitz.

Best Picture nomination predictions will be updated on Monday.

HARPER AND WILL TOP CRITIC'S CHOICE

The Critics' Choice Awards for documentaries were announce this week and TFF #51 film Will and Harper tied with Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story as Best Documentary feature for the year.  Will and Harper finished in the #2 spot in this year's MTFB People's poll just behind Zurawski v. Texas.

The complete list of all of the awards from The Critics' Choice is here from Deadline.

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

Danielle Deadwyler for The Piano Lesson from The Contending.

Danielle Deadwyler for The Piano Lesson from Variety.

Chelsea Clinton and Amanda Zurawski for Zurawsi v. Texas from Marie Claire.

Sebastian Stan for The Apprentice from The Hollywood Reporter.

Barry Keoghan and Others for Bird from Next Best Picture.

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MTFB Oscar Update / More Saturday Night / Poster for The Seed of the Sacred Fig / Interviews and Profiles: Strong, Stan and Lowden

 MTFB OSCAR UPDATE

For the next few weeks I'll be posting updated Oscar Predictions for the Big Eight categories.  I'll be updating these categories as pairs so that all eight are updated over a two week period.  Soon I'll begin to add in all the other feature categories.  Today's predix will include Best Picture and Best Direction.  A film's previous position is indicated in (parentheses).  TFF #51 films are in Bold.

BEST PICTURE

1) Emilia Perez (2)

2) Anora (1)

3) Conclave (3)

4) The Brutalist (4)

5) Dune: Part Two (5)

6) Sing Sing (6)

7) Gladiator II (7)

8) Blitz (8)

9) September 5 (10)

10) A Complete Unknown (-)

Other possibles: Saturday Night, A Real Pain, The Room Next Door.

BEST DIRECTION

1) Jacques Audiard/Emilia Perez (1)

2) Sean Baker/Anora (2)

3) Edward Berger/Conclave (3)

4) Brady Corbet/The Brutalist (4)

5) Denis Villenueve/Dune: Part Two (5)

Other possibles: Ridley Scott/Gladiator II, Pedro Almodovar/The Room Next Door, Jason Reitman/Saturday Night.

MORE SATURDAY NIGHT 

Alan Zweibel on the Early Years at SNL from Pop Culture Confidential.

Entertainment Weekly Breaks Down Fact and Fiction in Saturday Night.

Gabriel LaBelle on SNL from IndieWire.

POSTER FOR THE SEED OF THE SCARED FIG

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan for The Apprentice from Entertainment Weekly.

Producer Jack Lowden for The Outrun from Gold Derby.

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Remember to Rate / TFF #51 and Oscar / Interviews and Profiles / Trailer for Blink

REMEMBER TO RATE

We're closing in the deadline for you folks to get your ratings of the films you saw at TFF #51 to me. 

The DUE DATE for ratings is SEPT. 13TH.

EMAIL YOUR RATINGS TO: mpgort@gmail.com

I'm planning on posting The People's  results on Monday, Sept.16.

please rate the films you saw on a 1 to 5 scale with 1 being awful and 5 being super!  Decimals are fine.

TFF #51 AND OSCAR

Long time MTFB readers know that now that the fest is over, I will now spend a bunch of time over the next six months focused on the Oscar (and other awards) prospects of the films that screened at Telluride.  That will include my own set of Oscar nomination and winner predictions which will start in a few weeks..

So, to kick that off, here are the current Oscar nomination predictions for TFF #51 films from Variety's Clayton Davis:

Emilia Perez (11): Best Picture, Direction, Actress (Gascon), Supporting Actress (Saldana), Original Screenplay, Editing, Makeup/Hair, Score. Song (x2), International.

Saturday Night (9): Best Picture, Direction, Supporting Actor (LaBelle), Original Screenplay, Production Design, Editing, Makeup/Hair, Sound, Score.

Conclave (6): Best Picture, Actor (Fiennes), Supporting Actor (Tucci), Supporting Actress (Rossellini), Adapted Screenplay, Score.

Anora (5): Best Picture, Direction, Actress (Madison), Original Screenplay, Editing.

The Piano Lesson (3): Best Picture, Supporting Actress (Deadwyler), Adapted Screenplay.

Maria (4): Best Actress (Jolie), Cinematography, Costumes, Makeup/Hair.

A Real Pain (2): Best Supporting Actor (Culkin), Original Screenplay.

Piece by Piece (2): Best Animated Film, Song.

The Outrun (1): Best Actress (Ronan).

Memoir of a Snail (1): Best Animated Film.

Nickel Boys (1): Best Cinematography.

Will and Harper (1): Best Documentary.

All We Imagine as Light (1): Best International Feature.

The Seed of the Sacred Fig (1): Best International Feature.

Total of 44 nominations predicted for 14 films.

Here's the link to all of Davis' predictions.

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

Sean Baker on Anora with Backstage.

Jeremy Strong, Sebastian Stan and Ali Abassi for The Apprentice with The Hollywood Reporter.

Featurette Behind the Scenes of Saturday Night from The Contending.

First Looks at The End from The Playlist.

TRAILER FOR BLINK

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Daddio Full Trailer / Looks at Cannes/TFF Possibilities / Participant and Netflix Choices Could Impact TFF

First, my apologies for not having a post up last Monday.  I was finishing up a very, very busy weekend and just ran out of time.

DADDIO FULL TRAILER

Sony Pictures Classics has delivered a full trailer for Christy Hall's Daddio starring Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn. This follows a teaser that was released a few weeks ago. The TFF #50 selection  is set for a limited open on June 28th.

Here's the IMDb description for those who didn't see the film at the fest:

"A woman taking a cab ride from JFK engages in a conversation with the taxi driver about the important relationships in their lives."

LOOKS AT CANNES/TFF POSSIBLES

With the announcement of films for the Cannes Film Fest have come some promotional materials allowing us to begin to see images for those films and perhaps some for films that will then play TFF #51,  Here's a couple:

Barry Keoghan in Andrea Arnold's Bird:

And a photo of Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan from Ali Abbasi's The Apprentice:

From Guy Maddin, Evan and  Galen Johnson's Rumours:

PARTICIPANT AND NETFLIX CHOICES COULD IMPACT TFF

Word this week that Participant, the production company behind such TFF fare as Roma, Spotlight, Flee, The Look of Silence and numerous others will be closing up shop.  Meanwhile, it was reported that Netflix is shifting focus in terms of the films it produces and will be less auteur focused.  Netflix has been among the most represented film producer/distributors at Telluride for the past decade.

Both circumstances could have a real effect on TFF programming.

Both stories were reported at World of Reel.  Here's the Participant story and here's the Netflix story.

       

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