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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 Nov. 11th. 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) Isabella Rossellini/Conclave (4)
3) Danielle Deadwyler/The Piano Lesson (2)
4) Ariana Grande/Wicked (-)
5) Felicity Jones/The Brutalist (5)
Others: Saoirse Ronan/Blitz, Selena Gomez/Emilia Perez and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor/Nickel Boys.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1) Kieran 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: Yura Borisov/Anora, Jeremy Strong/The Apprentice and John Magaro/September 5.
TFF #51 FILMS AWARDED
BEHIND THE SCENES: MARIA
TFF FILMS QUALIFY
Official lists of films that have qualified for Academy Award consideration for Best Animated Feature, Best International Feature and Best Documentary Feature were released by The Academy this week. Here are the qualifiers that screened at TFF by category:
Animated Feature:
Memoir of a Snail
Piece by Piece
International Feature:
Emilia Perez/France
Santosh/United Kingdom
The Seed of the Sacred Fig/Germany
Documentary Feature:
Blink
Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid
Casa Bonita, Mi Amor
Food Inc. 2*
Hollywoodgate*
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
Martha
No Other Land
Piece by Piece
Separated
Will and Harper
Zurawski v. Texas
*Screened in TFF #50.
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