MTFB Oscar Update: Predicting Oscar Winners: Cinematography
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MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: PREDICTING OSCAR WINNERS: CINEMATOGRAPHY AND MORE
As the Emilia Perez series of provocations and scandals seems to be winding down in intensity, we're starting to see some actual effects regarding what could happen on Oscar night. Here are the first predictions for winners in Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Score and Song. As usual, TFF films are in Bold.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1) The Brutalist
2) Dune: Part Two
3) Nosferatu
4) Maria
5) Emilia Perez
BEST EDITING
1) Conclave
2) Anora
3) The Brutalist
4) Emilia Perez
5) Wicked
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
1) Wicked
2) The Brutalist
3) Dune: Part Two
4) Conclave
5) Nosferatu
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
1) The Brutalist
2) Conclave
3) The Wild Robot
4) Emilia Perez
5) Wicked
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
1) El Mal/Emilia Perez
2) The Journey/The Six Triple Eight
3) Mi Camino/Emilia Perez
4) Like A Bird/Sing Sing
5) Never Too Late/Never Too Late
Comments: Tightest category among these five is Editing where Conclave is barely in front of Anora and The Brutalist is close too. If Conclave wins this and Adapted Screenplay...well...could be a good night in the end for Conclave.
The Emilia Perez blowback does not seem to have been particularly bad in Best Song. We'll see if that's still true two weeks from now when we re-visit these five categories. Diane Warren's shot to finally win an Oscar for songwriting has a real possibility of happening.
Speaking of low blowback for Emilia Perez in Best Song, you have to wonder if Zoe Saldana might still have a chance for Best Supporting Actress. We'll look at that category again next week.
FUTURE TFF SELECTION?
Of note yesterday was news from both
Deadline and
The Film Stage that TFF regular and member of TFF's Council of Advisors Werner Herzog will be soon filming a new feature film. That by itself would be enough to merit it going on a future TFF watch list. But the reporting revealed that the film will star Rooney Mara and Kate Mara.
Rooney is past TFF tribute recipient. She was honored in 2015. Todd Haynes Carol screened at TFF as a part of that tribute. I have been told that Rooney loves the fest and has returned since the 2015 honor.
She attended in 2016 with Una and again in 2022 with Women Talking.
The new film is reportedly titled Bucking Fastard and is described by The Film Stage as:
"...based on the true story of inseparable twin sisters Joan and Jean, drawing from the lives of Freda and Greta Chaplin, who became sexually infatuated with their next-door neighbor and eventually received a restraining order. The title of the film, which begins production this spring in Ireland and Slovenia, is based on a simultaneous verbal slip the twins made in court."
The Film Stage article (Linked above) also digs into Herzog's most recent book, Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir, and provides considerable detail about the two sisters.
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