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MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SUPPORTING ACTING

Here are updated nomination predictions for the Supporting Acting categories for the 97th Academy Awards.  These categories were last predicted on Oct. 28th.  An actor's previous rank appears to the right of their names in parentheses.  TFF #51 actors/films are in Bold.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Zoe Saldana/Emilia Perez (1)

2) Danielle Deadwyler/The Piano Lesson (2)

3) Saoirse Ronan/Blitz (4)

4) Isabella Rossellini/Conclave (3)

5) Felicity Jones/The Brutalist (5)

Others: Selena Gomez/Emilia Perez, Ariana Grande/Wicked and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor/Nickel Boys.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Keiran Culkin/A Real Pain (1)

2) Denzel Washington/Gladiator II (2)

3) Guy Pearce/The Brutalist (3)

4) Clarence Maclin/Sing Sing (4)

5) Stanley Tucci/Conclave (5)

Others: John Magaro/September 5, Jeremy Strong/The Apprentice and Yura Borisov/Anora.

TFF FILMS AND THE BEST OF THE HALF DECADE

Jordan Ruimy/World of Reel invited me and more than one hundred other "critics" to name a  list of the Best films of the first half of the 2020's.  The results were posted Saturday.  Among the top twenty were eight that played at one of the decade's TFFs.  They were: TAR, The Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall, The Power of the Dog, Poor Things, Anora, Aftersun and All of Us Strangers. 

Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer topped the list.  My List for the poll was: Nomadland, Oppenheimer, Poor Things, The Power of the Dog and The Zone of Interest.

The complete list from World of Reel is linked here.

AWARDS FOR TFF FILMS

Mikey Madison to recieve Breakthrough Performance Award from Palm Springs Fest.

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

Director Malcolm Washington and writer Virgil Williams on The Piano Lesson from TIFF.net.

Andrea Arnold for Bird from Mubi.com.

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MTFB Oscar Update: Best Picture and Direction / Trailers and Clips: Conclave and Emilia Perez / TFF Films Awarded / Interviews and Profiles

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: BEST PICTURE AND DIRECTION

Here are updated nomination predictions for the Best Picture and Direction for the 97th Academy Awards.  These categories were last predicted on Oct. 21st.  A film's or director's previous rank appears to the right of their names in parentheses.  TFF #51 actors/films are in Bold. 

BEST PICTURE

1) Anora (1)

2) Conclave (2)

3) Emilia Perez (4)

4) The Brutalist (3)

5) Dune Part Two (5)

6) Gladiator II (6)

7) A Real Pain (10)

8) A Complete Unknown (-)

9) Sing Sing (7)

10) Wicked (-)

Others: Blitz, September 5 and Nickel Boys.

BEST DIRECTION

1) Brady Corbet/The Brutalist (1)

2) Sean Baker/Anora (2)

3) Jacques Audiard/Emilia Perez (3)

4) Edward Berger/Conclave (4)

5) Ridley Scott/Gladiator II (-)

Others: Denis Villenueve/Dune Part Two, James Mangold/A Complete Unknown and RaMell Ross/Nickel Boys.

***BEHIND THE SCENES OF CONCLAVE

***SELENA GOMEZ SINGS MI CAMINO FROM EMILIA PEREZ

TFF FILMS AWARDED

Zurawski v. Texas wins Hampton Doc Fest Human Rights Award.

Santa Barbara Film Fest names Ralph Fiennes Performer of the Year.

Angelina Jolie to recieve Permance Tribute from the Gotham Awards.

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

Isabella Rossellini for Conclave from Variety.

Edward Berger for Conclave from Awards Watch.

Ralph Fiennes (and others) for Conclave from The Hollywood Reporter.

Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin for A Real Pain from Indiewire.

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MTFB Oscar Update-Supporting / New Things: Trailer for Martha, Poster for Emilia Perez / Interviews and Profiles: Mikey Madison, Jason Reitman, Ali Abassi

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE-SUPPORTING

Here are updated nomination predictions for the Supporting Acting categories for the 97th Academy Awards.  These categories were last predicted on Sept. 30th.  An actor's previous rank appears to the right of their names in parentheses.  TFF #51 actors/films are in Bold.

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Zoe Saldana/Emilia Perez (1)

2) Danielle Deadwyler/The Piano Lesson (2)

3) Felicity Jones/The Brutalist (-)

4) Isabella Rossellini/Conclave (3)

5) Saoirse Ronan/Blitz (4)

Others: Selena Gomez/Emilia Perez, Aunjanue Ellis-Tayor/Nickel Boys, Lady Gaga/Joker: Folie a Deux.

SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Kieran Culkin/A Real Pain (1)

2) Guy Pearce/The Brutalist (5)

3) Denzel Washington/Gladiator II (2)

4) Stanley Tucci/Conclave (4)

5) Clarence Maclin/Sing Sing (3)

Others: John Magaro/September 5, Jeremy Strong/The Apprentice, Samuel L. Jackson/The Piano Lesson.

NEW THINGS

TRAILER FOR MARTHA (the Martha Stewart doc)

POSTER FOR EMILIA PEREZ

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

Behind the Scenes of Saturday Night from Time.com.

Jason Reitman and and Gil Kenan for Saturday Night from SlashFilm.

Mikey Madison for Anora from The Playlist.

Mikey Madison and Sean Baker for Anora from The Hollywood Reporter.

Ali Abassi for The Apprentice from IndieWire.

Ali Abassi for The Apprentice from The Hollywood Reporter.

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Best Picture Preview / Disclaimer Trailer / Trailer and Poster for A Real Pain / Character Posters for Emilia Perez / Interviews and Profiles: Isabella Rossellini and Edward Berger

BEST PICTURE PREVIEW

I'm right on the cusp of MTFB's first set of Oscar nomination predictions.  Those are coming Monday and will include the Big Eight categories: Picture, Direction, all four acting categories and both screenplay categories.  Today, as a teaser,  I thought I'd run down what feel like the chances for Telluride-specific Best Picture possibilities.

PROBABLE BP NOMINEES:

Anora

Emilia Perez

Conclave

POSSIBLE BP NOMINEES:  

Saturday Night

September 5

MAYBE THEY GET IN:

A Real Pain

The Piano Lesson

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Nickel Boys

WAY OUTSIDE SHOTS:

Maria

The Apprentice

AND MY PERSONAL APPEAL:

Zarawski v. Texas

DISCLAIMER TRAILER

Apple TV+ has released a trailer for the Cate Blanchett starring, Alfonso Cuaron directed Disclaimer.  The seven part series will premiere Oct.  11th.  Here's the trailer from YouTube:

TRAILER AND POSTER FOR A REAL PAIN

CHARACTER POSTERS FOR EMILIA PEREZ

From Netflix this week, character posters for Karla Sofia Gascon, Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez as their character's from Jacques Audiard's audacious Emilia Perez:

Gason:

Saldana:

Gomez:

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES:

Isabella Rossellini and Edward Berger for Conclave from Collider via X.

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The Professional's Telluride / The People's Telluride-Last Call / Trailers / Interviews and Profiles

THE PROFESSIONAL'S TELLURIDE

Here we go...ratings from The Professionals of the films from TFF #51.  Some standards:   industry professionals agreed to rate the films they at TFF #51 on a 1-5 scale.  The pros are a mix of critics, awards experts and other industry insiders.  To make the list this year a film had to be rated by at least half of the Pros.

Here's this year's list of Pros:

Erik Anderson/Awards Watch

J. Don Birnam-Jorge T/SplashReport.com

Christina Jeurling Birro/Pop Culture Confidential

Clayton Davis/Variety

David Ehrlich/Indiewire

Scott Feinberg/The Hollywood Reporter

Marshall Flores/Awards Daily

Mark Johnson/Good as Gold

Dave Karger/Turner Classic Movies

Joey Magidson/Awards Radar

Ryan McQuade/Awards Watch

Will Mavity/Next Best Picture

Clarence Moye/Awards Daily

Matt Neglia/Next Best Picture

Christopher Schiller/ScriptMag.com

Sasha Stone/Awards Daily

Anonymous

And here are the results for the 2024 edition of The SHOW:

1) Anora 4.53

2) September 5 4.08

3) Emilia Perez 4.07

4) Saturday Night 3.86

5) Conclave 3.83

6) Nickel Boys 3.77

7) Piece by Piece 3.60

8) The Piano Lesson 3.46

9) Maria 3.43

10) The Friend 3.25

11) The End 2.65

Congratulations to Sean Baker and Anora for topping the TFF Pro's Poll for 2024.  Anora's 4.53 rating supplants Argo and The Shape of Water on the all time Professional's list in a tie with Poor Things for the 9th and 10th spots:

And after TFF #51, the new updates all time Top Tens *well...since 2012:

The Professionals All Time Top Ten:

1) Moonlight (4.87) (16) (Won Best Picture)

2) Parasite (4.75) (19) (Won Best Picture)

3) Roma (4.73) (18) (Nominated Best Picture)

4) Birdman (4.72) (14) (Won Best Picture)

5) 12 Years a Slave (4.70-tie) (13) (Won Best Picture)

6) Central Park Five (4.70-tie) (12)

7) Foxcatcher (4.63) (14)

8) La La Land (4.58) (16) (Nominated Best Picture)

9) Poor Things (4.53) (23) (Nominated Best Picture)

9) Anora (4.53) (24)

THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE-LAST CALL

Here's your FINALCALL to get in your ratings for TFF #51 films.  The scale is 1 to 5.  The deadline is tomorrow at 5:00 pm PDT|.  The People's results will be Monday's regularly scheduled post.  Right now the battle for the top spot is a slugfest.  Your ratings could tip the scale in favor of the films you loved best!

Email ratings to mpgort@gmail.com

TRAILERS

NEW FOR SATURDAY NIGHT (language)

THE APPRENTICE

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

Selena Gomez on Emilia Perez from Variety on X

Conclave director Edward Berger from Deadline

Pharrell Williams on Piece by Piece from The Hollywood Reporter

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Mr. Mike's Wish List/Lupita and Brad: Round Two/Selena's Rudderless Fans Find MTFB

Good Monday Everyone.  Hope you had a great weekend.

MR. MIKE'S WISH LIST

The first stab at a "Ten Bets" list is still almost two weeks away but that doesn't mean I don't have films that I'm wishing for,  Some of them have a decent shot to make the lineup; others are "pie in the sky"...but even"pie in the sky" sometimes comes true.

Here's where I am right now:

Wish List A: (films that have a reasonable chance to be at Telluride): "Foxcatcher", "The Imitation Game", "Birdman", "Two Days, One Night".

Wish List B: (films that I'd love to see at Telluride, but chances are minuscule): "Interstellar", "Inherent Vice", "MacBeth", "Unbroken".  

There will be others...What's on your wish list?

LUPITA AND BRAD: ROUND TWO

News appeared over the weekend that "12 Years a Slave" Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o has put together the pieces to produce her next project.  Striking while she is a hot commodity and taking advantage of the relationships developed during her "12 Years" experience, IndieWire reports that she will star and produce an adaptation of "Americanah".  She'll do it with the participation of Brad Pitt's Plan B Production Company which was also instrumental in the development of "12 Years".  a 2015 release date is anticipated.  So mark it down as a possible "Coming Attraction" for TFF #42.

Take a look at the complete IndieWire story here:

http://www.indiewire.com/article/lupita-nyongo-reuniting-with-brad-pitt-for-post-star-wars-project


SELENA'S FANS FIND MTFB

It took nearly a week but Selena Gomez fans found Michael's Telluride Film Blog this past weekend as a result of the tweets I tweeted after catching the private OKC screening of William H. Macy's "Rudderless". Gomez fans starting retweeting like crazy yesterday and naturally, I encouraged them to drop be and look at the rather extensive "Rudderless" reporting that's contained here.  Thanks Selena fans.  Hope you enjoy all the "Rudderless" coverage.  I'll say it again for your benefit...she's really good in the film!