UPDATED OSCAR PREDICTIONS FOR SEVEN CATEGORIES
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
1) Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse
2) Incredibles 2
3) Isle of Dogs
4) Mirai
5) Ralph Breaks the Internet
ORIGINAL SCORE
1) If Beale Street Could Talk
2) Mary Poppins Returns
3) Isle of Dogs
4) Black Panther
5) BlacKkKlansman
ORIGINAL SONG
1) Shallow/A Star Is Born
2) All the Stars/Black Panther
3) I'll Fight/RBG
4) The Place Where Lost Things Go/Mary Poppins Returns
5) When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings/The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
CINEMATOGRAPHY
1) Roma
2) Cold War
3) A Star Is Born
4) The Favourite
5) Never Look Away
COSTUMES
1) The Favourite
2) Mary Poppins Returns
3) Black Panther
4) Bohemian Rhapsody
5) The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
PRODUCTION DESIGN
1) The Favourite
2) Black Panther
3) Mary Poppins Returns
4) First Man
5) Roma
FILM EDITING
1) Vice
2) BlacKkKlansman
3) The Favourite
4) Bohemian Rhapsody
5) Green Book
NEW GURUS OF GOLD
Here's the link to the latest Oscar predictions from The Gurus of Gold at Movie City News. They're linked here. I'm in relatively good shape in as far as the collective predictions are concerned except in Film Editing where I'm way, way in a different place than the rest of the Gurus.
YOU CAN'T RULE IT OUT
I started seeing hints on Twitter the last couple of days that Martin Scorsese's The Irishman will likely have a theatrical release in September (perhaps late September) before its streaming release on Netflix, which is the money behind the film. Jordan Ruimy of World of Reel tweeted this on Tuesday night:
Additionally, Ruimy posted a short story on his site which you can see here.
Of course, should this prove out, then the film, which is probably the most anticipated film of the year, has a window to screen at Telluride as well as Venice (if it doesn't screen in Cannes and my money says it screens at Cannes...assuming that fest and Netflix can come to some sort of mutually acceptable set of conditions-see my last post from Feb. 4th) and Toronto.
Making this all the more possible is the success this season of the Netflix produces Roma and should Roma ultimately win the Best Picture Oscar in two and a half weeks the chances of a T-ride play probably increase.
Stay tuned...
FIRST LOOK AT BERLIN'S FIRST FILM
Lone Scherfig's The Kindness of Strangers will open the Berlin Film Fest today. The film is one of the Berlin titles that seems to me to have potential to be selected for The SHOW's 2019 lineup.
Deadline reported Tuesday that the film's producers have released a trailer for the film. You can find that story and the embedded trailer here.
The Kindness of Strangers stars Zoe Kazan, Caleb Landry Jones, Andrea Riseborough and Bill Nighy and, in addition to opening the fest, will be one of the film's in competition for the Golden Bear.
Meanwhile, here is more coverage of the Berlinale from Indiewire with a story from David Ehrlich, Kate Erbland and Jude Dry looking at what they say are the ten most anticipated titles of the fest including several that are on my TFF #46 watch list including Mr. Jones, By the Grace of God, The Golden Glove and Varda by Agnes.
That's your MTFB update for this Thursday. I'll have more on Monday.
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