FLASH: New York Film Critics Circle Results

Results from today's voting by the New York Film Critics Circle: (Telluride #39 film(s) in Bold)

Best First Film: How to Survive a Plague
Best Documentary: The Central Park Five
Best Cinematography: Zero Dark Thirty
Best Supporting Actress: Sally Field/Lincoln
Best Supporting Actor: Mathew McConnaughey/Magic Mike and Bernie
Best Animated Film: Frankenweenie
Best Foreign Language Film: Amour
Best Actress: Rachel Weisz/The Deep Blue Sea
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis/Lincoln
Best Screenplay: Tony Kushner/Lincoln
Best Direction: Kathryn Bigelow/Zero Dark Thirty
Best Picture: Zero Dark Thirty


Comments:  Boosts for Oscar noms for ZDT, CP5, Field and  McConnaughey...even Frankenweenie.

Field and McConnaughey choices are both a bit surprising.  Most everyone thought Anne Hathaway was a shoe in this morning and for Oscar.  Not many had McConnaughey on their radar for the NYFCC.

Pretty happy to see Bernie get some love...

I would have really liked to have seen the NYFCC peeps go with Rust and Bone in the Foreign category...

The Rachel Wiesz choice is a real surprise...maybe gets her into the Oscar conversation as well.

What was no surprise was the DDL choice for Best Actor. Indiewire reports this was DDL's fourth NYFCC Best Actor award.  Mark Harris adds that he also has a Best Supporting Actor nod from NYFCC for A Room with a View/My Beautiful Launderette.

Bigelow's win is a bit of a surprise after the Lincoln log roll looked to be gathering steam.

Overall, big day for Lincoln and ZDT.

Master Poster #2/CF5 and Sundance/Zero Teaser/

Good Tuesday Everyone from San Francisco, CA...Got tickets to see the national tour of "War Horse" tonight...excited!

Oscar winning composer Marvin Hamlisch has died at 68.  His adaptation of Scott Joplin's "rags" for "The Sting" were maybe as important to that film as Redford and Newman.

His IMDb entry: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006121/


MASTER POSTER #2

A second poster for Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" has emerged as it seems that there is some nugget everyday about the highly anticipated film.

Here's the new poster:

Also included is the post from The Playlist:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/kaleidoscopic-new-poster-for-paul-thomas-andersons-the-master-will-leave-you-feeling-blue-20120806

CF5 AND SUNDANCE

Ken Burns et.al. has a distributor.  Sundance Selects will distribute "The Central Park Five"  Here's the story from The Hollywood Reporter:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sundance-selects-central-park-five-ken-burns-358646?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

ZERO TEASER

Let's be honest...the chances that Kathryn Bigelow's "finding Bin Laden" drama "Zero Dark Thirty" will play at Telluride is really very small...but it's NOT impossible.  And it's probably wise to remember that her last gig was Oscar winner "The Hurt Locker"...so with that, here's the first teaser for "Zero...":

Also a link to the details from Rope of Silicon: http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/watch-zero-dark-thirty-trailer-osama-bin-laden/



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More Major Spec/Trailers from Ebert/Trailers for London

Good Morning...back in the Oklahoma Panhandle...

MORE MAJOR SPECULATION

If you looked in on this space Saturday you saw this tidbit repeated from a Pete Hammond post from Deadline.com:

“The Telluride Film Festival threw a party at the London Hotel on Sunset the night before the LAFF launch to tout their upcoming Labor Day weekend 39th edition of a fest that grows in importance every year as a key start to awards season. Fest directors Gary Meyer, Tom Luddy and Julie Huntsinger are still putting the program together and, as is the custom, won’t announce it in advance.  But it’s clear this fest which draws Oscar-hopefuls from the likes of SPC, Searchlight, The Weinstein Company, Focus  and others has also attracted the attention of the major studios with eyes on Oscar this year.  At least one of them was busy showing their wares to the Telluride honchos this week in hopes of making the cut. “

Which has kept my mind whirling for the last 48 hours...which studios? what films?  Certainly it seems that Hammond is implying more than one.  

Consequently, during the course of this week, I'll take a look at the "major" studio offerings that are expected as we move to the end of the year that most think want to be Oscar contenders and at least see if we can discern what the field of possibilities looks like.

Today we start with Universal Pictures which looks to be distributing two "Oscar-y" films: Tom Hooper's "Les Miserables" and Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" (the Osama Bin Laden/Seal Team 6 film).

The Bigelow film seems more "Telluride-ish" (as I thought "The Hurt Locker" might be back in 2008) but Tom Hooper had a great deal of success out of Telluride for "The King's Speech" in 2010..so both films seem plausible Telluride contenders if Universal has decided to make that play and T-ride's heads deem them acceptable.

Other connections..."Les Miz's" production company Working Title had a production connection to Telluride 2006 "sneak" "Catch a Fire".

"Zero Dark Thirty's" IMDb page is here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1790885/

"Les Miserables" IMDb page is here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1707386/

We'll look at Paramount tomorrow.

TRAILERS FROM EBERT

Roger Ebert has posted a collection of what he terms "out of the mainstream" trailers.  They include both "The Master's" teaser featuring Joaquin Phoenix and "Hyde Park on Hudson" both of which I have linked to in earlier posts and have at least some Telluride potential.  There are also many other films linked here.  Take a look:

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/beyond-the-mainstream-ebert-cl.html

TRAILERS FROM LONDON

And this from our Danny Boyle/London Olympics file...a trailer for four short films about the London Games from different director's including Telluride featured directors Mike Leigh and Lynne Ramsay from The Playlist:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-trailer-for-new-olympic-short-films-from-mike-leigh-lynne-ramsay-asif-kapadia-20120618

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