Oscar Odds and Ends / Trailer for Tuner / Visitations: Sentimental Value

OSCAR ODDS AND ENDS

*MTFB goes 95/125 in predicting the nominees.  That's a 76% accuracy rate and slightly below my average percentage for accuracy.

*By comparison my accuracy would have tied me for ninth among Gold Deby's 45 Experts and second among their editors.  Not as good as last year, but still not bad...again Gold Derby, waiting on my invitation to be on the panel next year.

*Best categories (where I got all the nominees correct) were: Adapted Screenplay and Animated Feature.  Of categories where I missed one nominee, four had the fifth nominee listed as the first "other" possibility: Best Picture, Actress, Supporting Actress and International Feature.

*Worst category for me was Animated Short where I went an abysmal one out of five.  As a matter of fact the "Shorts" categories again were the biggest boondoggle to my prediction success as I only got seven right of the possible 15 in those three categories.  Leaving them out I was at 80% accuracy for the feature categories.

*Biggest surprise and disappointment was Paul Mescal missing for Supporting Actor in Hamnet.  I would have also liked to have seen Oscar Isaac in Best Actor and Guillermo Del Toro for Best Direction for Frankenstein.  A Supporting Actor nomination for Andrew Scott in Blue Moon would have been nice too.

*TFF's five Oscar Best Picture nominees (again a TFF record for number of films that played the fest and then were nominated for Best Picture) and where they landed on MTFB's People's, Pros and Composite polls:

*CORRECTION...An eagle-eyed reader of the blog was kind enough to point out that TFF #51 short Two People Exchanging Saliva was a nominee for Best Live Action Short. That moves to 10 the number of TFF films nominated for a total of 40 nominations.

TRAILER FOR TUNER

Here's a new trailer for Tuner.  The film premiered at Telluride on Aug. 30th, 2025.  Here's its official trailer from Black Bear via YouTube:

VISITATIONS: SENTIMENTAL VALUE

Writer-Director Joachim Trier from Pop Culture Confidential.

Oscar nominee Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas from Pop Culture Confidential.