I'm posting my latest take on the Best Picture race today. My last Best Picture predictions were posted on Oct. 7th. Each film is followed by its position from the last prediction posting in parentheses. TFF #46 films are Bold.
2) The Irishman (3)
3) Marriage Story (2)
4) Parasite (5)
5) Jojo Rabbit (4)
6) The Two Popes (9)
7) 1917 (7)
8) Bombshell (-)
9) The Farewell (10)
10) A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (6)
Other Possibles: Joker, Ford v. Ferrari, Dolemite Is My Name, Just Mercy
Notes: Substantial positive moves for The Two Popes and Bombshell. Meanwhile Ford v. Ferrari and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood both have lost some steam.
AWARDS SEASON STARTS TO GET REAL...
GOTHAM AWARD NOMINATIONS
The first of the end of season feature films awards organizations was out this week with their nominations for the best films of the year. The Gotham Awards focus on small to modest budgeted independent American films and as such do not nominate a film like Ford v. Ferrari. Nevertheless, their list gives us the first taste of some of the films and performances that will likely be a part of the larger awards conversation as the next few months unfold.
Last year's nominees included The Rider, The Favourite and First Reformed for Best Feature; Ethan Hawke and Richard E. Grant for Best Actor and Yalitza Aparicio for Breakthrough Actress.
This year's newly announced nominees include a number of films/performances from TFF #46 films:
Best Feature includes: Marriage Story, Uncut Gems and Waves.
Best Actor: Adam Driver/Marriage Story, Adam Sandler/Uncut Gems
Best Screenplay: Noah Baumbach/Marriage Story
Breakthrough Actor: Julia Fox/Uncut Gems, Taylor Russell/Waves
Other Best Feature nominees includes The Farewell and Hustlers.
Coverage of the Gotham Award nominees is linked here from:
Indiewire
Variety
CLIO SHORT LIST FOR TRAILERS AND TEASERS ANNOUNCED
The shortlist for the Clio Awards for trailers, teasers and integrated campaigns was released last week and included several nominees from TFF #45 and #46 films.
Among the teasers on the short list were "La Casa" from Roma
Among trailers short listed were trailers for First Man, Roma, Border and Parasite.
Roma was also short listed for Best Integrated Campaign.
The Clios will be awarded on Nov. 21st.
Here's the story from Trailer-Track.com
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY AWARDS
Also announced this past week were the nominees for this year's International Documentary Awards. A couple of TFF docs from the past two years made it into the various lists of finalists.
TFF #45 film The Biggest Little Farm was nominated for Best Feature and Best Music Score. Meanwhile TFF #46 doc The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash was nominated for Best Music Documentary. Also nominated in that category was two-time nearly a TFF film and finally a part of this year's lineup, Amazing Grace.
The IDAs will be awarded on Dec. 7th.
The complete lists of nominees are here from Indiewire.
NEW TRAILER FOR THE AERONAUTS
We have a brand new trailer for Tom Harper's The Aeronauts from Amazon Studios. That dropped over the weekend. Here's the new glimpse of the film via YouTube:
The Aeronauts will be in select theaters on Dec. 6th and on Amazon Prime on Dec. 20th.
BLEEKER STREET NABS THE ASSISTANT
Kitty Green's The Assistant, which played at this year's fest, has been acquired for U.S. distribution by Bleeker Street.
That news coming officially from the company and The Hollywood Reporter. I'd been tipped off to the acquisition a couple of weeks ago by a friend of them blog and had been keeping it under warps until the deal became official.
The THR story says the film will be released domestically on Jan. 31st, 2020.
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