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Conversation with Sonny Ganaden, Director of THE ARRANGEMENTS THE ARRANGEMENTS had its world premiere at the 45th Hawai‘i International Film Festival presented by Halekulani as part of the Made in Hawai‘i Shorts. A conversation with director Sonny Ganaden about community, grief, childhood, and making magic with non-actors. THE ARRANGEMENTS (2025) It was during the Made in Hawai‘i Shorts at...
The 56th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) concluded in Goa with Vietnamese director Ash Mayfair’s “Skin of Youth” taking home the Golden Peacock for best feature film in the international competition. The film, which follows the turbulent romance between San, a transgender sex worker seeking gender-affirming surgery, and Nam, an underground cage fighter striving […]
QUICK POST FOR THANKSGIVING DAY: MTFB FIRST OSCAR NOMINATION PREDICTIONS FOR FOUR CATEGORIES
Welcome to MTFB and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Today we have a short post due to the holiday. But and important post it is as I begin to expand the breadth of MTFB's Oscar predictions. Todo so I'm adding first predictions for four categories including the newly added category of...
MTFB OSCAR TAKE: UPDATING SUPPORTING ACTING AND SCREENPLAYS
Before we head into the predictions for Oscar categories that haven't appeared in MTFB thus far this season; here are the updated predictions for the Supporting Acting and Screenplay categories. TFF #52 films and performers are in Bold. A film's previous ranking is to the right of the title in parentheses.
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MTFB OSCAR PREDICTIONS #3: BEST PIC, DIRECTION, LEAD ACTING
MTFB begins its expansion of Oscar nomination predictions today by updating four categories. I'll update the Supporting Acting and Screenplay categories on Monday and a week from today start to provide predictions in the other 13 feature film categories.
or today and Monday you can see the last...
MTFB OSCAR TAKE: WHERE WE'RE AT
I'm through the second wave of predictions for the 2026 Oscars and the eight " Above the Line" categories. I'll start expanding the predictions with Thursday's post to eventually include all 24 categories (up from 23 as The Academy has added Best Casting as a new Oscar category for this year).
But before I go into the expanded set of...
MTFB OSCAR PREDICTIONS: SCREENPLAYS #2
Today I am concluding my second wave of Oscar predictions for this year with the focus on the Screenplay categories. All contenders from TFF #52 films are listed in Bold.
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1) Sinners (1)
2)...
MTFB OSCAR TAKE ROUND TWO: SUPPORTING ACTING
Sorry that I'm late this morning. It was a long weekend.
MTFB continues its up date of Oscar predictions with the Supporting Acting Categories. These predictions will include the actors current ranking as well as its position from two weeks back. TFF #52 films are in Bold.
SUPPRORTING ACTRESS...
MTFB OSCAR PREDICITONS ROUND TWO: LEAD ACTING
MTFB continues its up date of Oscar predictions with the Lead acting Categories. These predictions will include the actors current ranking as well as its position from two weeks back. TFF #52 films are in Bold.
BEST ACTRESS
1) Jesse Buckley/Hamnet (1)
2) Rene Reinsve/Sentimental...