The People's Telluride / Many Trailers / The Film Stage's 50 Films

 THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE

You've got a week left to get your ratings in for The People's Telluride.  At the moment we're at about half the respondents (maybe a bit more) that normally participate each year.  Additionally, the Pros are doing their part and I plan to have the The Professionals ratings up a week from today.

Again, email me a list of the films you saw and rate each on a 1 to 5 scale.  1 means it was very bad, 5 means you thought it was terrific.  Decimals are fine.

Report your ratings to: mpgort@gmail.com 

The deadline for this year to turn in your ratings will be Sept. 15th.

MANY TRAILERS

During and after the fest there were a number of teasers/trailers released for TFF #52 films.  Here are some of those from YouTube:

MEGADOC

THE SECRET AGENT

BUGONIA

HAMNET

URCHIN

THE FILM STAGE'S 50 FILMS

The Film Stage published a list of 50 films to see this fall along with their release dates.  As you might expect a number of TFF #52 films made the list.  Here are those that did in chronological order:

The History of Sound 9/12

Megadoc 9/19

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You 10/10

Urchin 10/10

It Was Just an Accident 10/15

Ballad of a Small Player 10/15

Blue Moon 10/17

The Mastermind 10/17

Frankenstein 10/17

Bugonia 10/24

Nouvelle Vague 10/31

Sentimental Value 11/7

Jay Kelly 11/14

The Secret Agent 11/26

Hamnet 11/27

Included as "Other films to see" are:

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere 10/24

La Grazia 12/5

The complete Film Stage post is linked here.

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MTFB Oscar Update: Supporting Acting and More / The Film Stage's Hot 100 / Interviews And Profiles

 MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SUPPORTING ACTING AND MORE

I'm updating the Supporting Acting categories today as well as Original Score, Original Song And Sound. These categories were last updated on Dec. 9th.  An actor's/film's previous position is indicated in (parentheses).  TFF #51 films are in Bold. 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Zoe Saldana/Emilia Perez (1)

2) Ariana Grande/Wicked (4)

3) Isabella Rossellini/Conclave (2)

4) Felicity Jones/The Brutalist (5)

5) Danielle Deadwyler/The Piano Lesson (3)

Others: Selena Gomez/Emilia Perez, Margaret Qualley/The Substance and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor/Nickel Boys.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Kieran Culkin/A Real Pain (1)

2) Guy Pearce/The Brutalist (3)

3) Denzel Washington/Gladiator II (2)

4) Yura Borisov/Anora (5)

5) Clarence Maclin/Sing Sing (4)

Others: Edward Norton/A Complete Unknown, Jeremy Strong/The Apprentice and Stanley Tucci/Conclave.

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

1) The Brutalist (2)

2) Conclave (1)

3) Emilia Perez (3)

4) The Wild Robot (4)

5) Challengers (-)

Others: The Room Next Door, Blitz and Wicked.

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

1) El Mal/Emilia Perez (1)

2) Mi Camino/Emilia Perez (2)

3) Kiss the Sky/The Wild Robot (3)

4) The Journey/The Six Triple Eight (5)

5) Compress/Repress/Challengers (-)

Others: Never Too Late/Elton John: Never Too Late, Piece by Piece/Piece by Piece and Harper and Will Go West/Will & Harper.

BEST SOUND

1) Dune Part Two (1)

2) Wicked (2)

3) Gladiator II (3)

4) A Complete Unknown (4)

5) Emilia Perez (5)

Others: Blitz, Deadpool and Wolverine and The Wild Robot.

THE FILM STAGE'S HOT 100

A few posts back I ran through The Playlist's 100 Most Anticipated Films for 2025 looking for clues as to possible TFF #52 films.  Today it's The Film Stage's list that I'm combing through.  Here are some films from their list that might be TFF possibilities:

94) The Bride/Gyllenhaal

81) The Twilight World/Herzog

71) Anemone/Day-Lewis

69) Bugonia/Lanthimos

67) Hamnet/Zhao

64) Orphan/Nemes

59) Young Mothers/The Dardennes Bros.

58) Frankenstein/Del Toro

54) The Actor/Johnson

51) Untitled Noah Baumbach (Jay Kelly???)/Baumbach

44) The History of Sound/Hermanus

41) After the Hunt/Guadagnino

35) Jupiter/Zvyaginstev

29) The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol/Chomet

14) Paper Tiger/Gray

11) Marty Supreme/J. Safdie

8) Die, My Love/Ramsay

7) The Phoenician Scheme/Anderson

5) The Mastermind/Reichardt

2) The Way of the Wind/Malick

The complete Film Stage list is linked here.

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

Ethan Herisse for Nickel Boys from The Hollywood Reporter.

Ethan Herisse for Nickel Boys from IndieWire.

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor for Nickel Boys from The Playlist.

Pablo Larrain for Maria from Film at Lincoln Center.

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MTFB Oscar Update: First Oscar Winner Predictions Part Three / The Film Stage's 100 Most Anticipated

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: OSCAR WINNER PREDICTIONS PART THREE

I'm continuing my first attempts at predicting what will win Oscars on the night of March 12th.  Today I'm adding these categories to the 12 I have previously predicted in the last two posts:  International Feature, Animated Feature, Documentary Feature, Production Design, Costume Design and Makeup/Hair.  Films are ranked in order of likelihood to win. I have highlighted TFF nominees in Bold.

INETRNATIONAL FEATURE

1) All Quiet on the Western Front

2) Argentina 1985

3) Close

4) EO

5) The Quiet Girl

ANIMANTED FEATURE

1) GDT's Pinocchio

2) Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

3) Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

4) Turning Red

5) The Sea Beast

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

1) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

2) All That Breathes

3) Navalny

4) Fire of Love

5) The House of Splinters

PRODUCTION DESIGN

1) Elvis

2) Babylon

3) Avatar: The Way of Water

4) All Quiet on the Western Front

5) The Fabelmans

COSTUME DESIGN

1) Elvis

2) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

3) Babylon

4) Everything Everywhere All at Once

5) Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

MAKEUP/HAIR

1) Elvis

2) The Whale

3) The Batman

4) All Quiet on the Western Front

5) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Through 18 predicted categories here's the rundown of what Oscar night looks like if I'm 100% accurate:

Everything Everywhere wins three Oscars for Best Picture,  Ke Huy Quan/Supporting Actor and Original Screenplay.

Elvis with four: Cinematography, Production Design, Costumes and Makeup/Hair.

The Fabelmans with one: Steven Spielberg/Best Direction.

TAR with one: Cate Blanchett/Lead Actress.

The Whale with one: Brendan Fraser/Lead Actor.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever with one: Angela Bassett/Supporting Actress.

Women Talking with one: Adapted Screenplay.

Babylon with one: Original Score.

RRR with one: Original Song.

Top Gun: Maverick with one: Editing.

All Quiet on the Western Front with one: International Feature

Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio with one: Animated Feature.

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed with one: Documentary Feature

Only two more feature categories remain to be initially predicted: Sound and Visual Effects.  Those along with the three shorts categories will be predicted in Thursday's post.

Couple of notes here.  

Everything Everywhere could easily add three more Oscars to its haul: Direction, Lead Actress and Editing.

Categories that seem most "locked" at the moment are Supporting Actor: Quan, Song: Naatu Naatu from RRR, International Feature: All Quiet...

Categories that seem to be the most contentious: Picture, Direction (Spielberg and The Daniels), Actress (Blanchett and Yeoh), Actor (Fraser and Butler with Farrell also possible), Original Screenplay (Everything Everywhere and Banshees), Documentary (literally any of them except House of Splinters),Cinematography (Again, any of the five except for Bardo), Editing (TG: Maverick and Everything Everywhere) and Makeup/Hair (Elvis and The Whale).

THE FILM STAGE'S 100 MOST ANTICIPATED AND TFF

Last month The Film Stage posted the 100 films that it have the most anticipation for in 2023.  I kind of spaced that out as I was focused on Oscar season.  Nevertheless, a month later, I have finally run through their list for possible players for TFF #50.

Last year, six films that I highlighted from The Film Stage list actually made it to TFF #49:

The Wonder

Bones and All

Broker

One Fine Morning

Women Talking 

TAR

Several films were on the 2022 list and reappear this year as they weren't released in 2022 including:

Maestro, The Holdovers, Poor Things, The Killer, Zone of Interest and Killers of the Flower Moon.

Here are maybe the best possibilities from their 2023 list:

100) El Conde

98) My Crime

93) The Royal Hotel

81) Emilia Perez

77) Butterfly Jam

72) Monster

60) Poor Things

59) AND

57) Nightbitch

48) Strangers

40) The Holdovers

38) The Island

36) Maestro

20) Fallen Leaves

19) Stone Mattress

18) Die My Love

16) The Killer

15) The End

13) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

12) Priscilla

8) Zone of Interest

6) May/December

3) The Way of the Wind

2) Killers of the Flower Moon

1) How Do You Live?

The complete two part article is linked here.

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Updated Oscar Predictions for Supporting and Screenplays / Critics Choice Awards and Telluride / First Man Stan / 100 2019 Films from The Film Stage

It's an MTFB Monday...


UPDATED OSCAR PREDICTIONS FOR SUPPORTING AND SCREENPLAYS

Here are my latest Oscar nomination predictions for the Supporting Acting and Screenplay races. TFF Films are Bold.

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Regina King/If Beale Street Could Talk
2) Amy Adams/Vice
3) Rachel Weisz/The Favourite
4) Emma Stone/The Favourite
5) Claire Foy/First Man

In Contention: Margot Robbie/Mary Queen of Scots, Nicole Kidman/Boy Erased, Tomasin Harcourt McKenzie/Leave No Trace, Emily Blunt/A Quiet Place


SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Mahershala Ali/Green Book
2) Richard E. Grant/Can You Ever Forgive Me?
3) Sam Elliott/A Star Is Born
4) Adam Driver/BlacKkKlansman
5) Timothee Chalamet/Beautiful Boy

In Contention: Sam Rockwell/Vice, Michael B. Jordan/Black Panther


ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1) The Favourite
2) Green Book
3) Roma
4) Vice
5) First Reformed

In Contention: Eighth Grade, A Quiet Place


ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1) BlacKkKlansman
2) If Beale Street Could Talk
3) A Star Is Born
4) Can You Ever Forgive Me?
5) First Man

In Contention: Black Panther, Leave No Trace, Crazy Rich Asians, The Death of Stalin


I'll have a big set of Oscar nomination predictions on Thursday and, of course, a complete final set of nomination predictions for all 24 categories a week from today.  Also...stay tuned for my picks on the Movie City News Gurus o' Gold charts.


CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS AND TELLURIDE

Here are the winners of last night's Critics Choice Awards from the Broadcast Film Critics Association (Telluride winners in Bold):

Best Picture: Roma
Direction: Alfonso Cuaron/Roma
Actress: (TIE) Glenn Close/The Wife. Lady Gaga/A Star Is Born
Actor: Christian Bale/Vice
Supporting Actress: Regina King/If Beale Street Could Talk
Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali/Green Book
Foreign Film: Roma
Animated Film: Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse
Young Actor/Actress: Elsie Fisher/Eighth Grade
Ensemble: The Favourite
Original Screenplay: Paul Schrader/First Reformed
Adapted Screenplay: Barry Jenkins/If Beale Street Could Talk
Cinematography: Roma
Production Design: Black Panther
Editing: First Man
Costume Design: Black Panther
Makeup/Hair: Vice
Visual Effects: Black Panther
Action Movie: Mission Impossible-Fallout
Comedy Film: Crazy Rich Asians
Actress in a Comedy: Olivia Colman/The Favourite
Actor in a Comedy: Christian Bale/Vice
SciFi/Horror Movie: A Quiet Place
Song: Shallow/A Star Is Born
Score: First Man

Telluride films won nine Critics Choice awards (including one for TFF #44 film First Reformed).

Cuaron's Roma was the night's big winner with four awards including Best Picture and Direction.

Other films with multiple wins were:

Black Panther-3
Vice-3
First Man-2
The Favourite-2
If Beale Street Could Talk-2
A Star Is Born-2


Here is coverage from last night's awards from:

Variety

Awards Daily

Indiewire

FIRST MAN STAN

I'm including a couple of links to First Man oriented posts/stories/interviews as I am unapologetically in its corner as we head into the last few days of Oscar voting.  I am, as the kids say in the parlance of our times, stanning for the film and performers...

Indiewire's Kate Erbland talks to Oscar winning (Spotlight) screen writer Josh Singer.

The L.A. Times' Glenn Whipp talks to star Ryan Gosling and director Damien Chazelle.

Kate Erbland's Indiewire story from right after First Man's Toronto screening.


And just because I really like the film and performances and think it should also make the final Oscar lineup for best picture...

Here's a story about Melissa McCarthy's casting in Marielle Heller's Can You Ever Forgive Me? from The Hollywood Reporters' Pamela McClintock.



ONE HUNDRED 2019 FILMS FROM THE FILM STAGE

The Film Stage has posted its long 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2019 list.  From that collection of titles here are a dozen titles that feel like (at least this far out) decent best to make the TFF #46 list:

#98-The Woman in the Window
#96-The Kindness of Strangers
#93-Lucy in the Sky
#86-Fireball
#80-Against All Enemies
#62-Ema
#51-Radioactive
#49-A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
#48-Mainstream
#16-The Truth
#15-Dry Run
#7- Little Women

Of course there are others on the list that I think might be in play come Labor Day (The Report, Motherless Brooklyn) and others that I'd love to see make TFF #46 (Radegund, The Irishman).

The complete 100 film list plus honorable mentions is linked here.


That's your MTFB fix for this Monday.  I'll have more on Thursday including a substantial Oscar predictions update...lots of categories as we countdown to Oscar nomination morning on Jan. 22nd.

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A Very Short Post on Dec. 24th: New Gurus / The Film Stage 50 for 2018

Good Christmas Eve to everyone...

Just a short post today as both flu and Holiday plans have meant a truncated MTFB today.

NEW GURUS

There's a new Gurus of Gold for this holiday week up at Movie City News.  It covers the Big Eight categories; Picture, Direction, Actress, Actor, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor, and Screenplays.

Here's the link to the New Gurus post.


THE FILM STAGE TOP 50

The Film Stage published its list of the 50 best films from 2018 over the weekend.  Included on that list:

#46-The Old Man and the Gun
#34 First Man
#20 The Rider (TFF #44)
#17 The Favourite
#14 Shoplifters
#8 Cold War
#7 The Other Side of the Wind
#2 Roma
#1 First Reformed (TFF #44)


The complete list is here.

That's all for today.  MTFB should be back to what passes for normal on Thursday.


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