LAST LOOK FOR EARLY OSCAR PREDICITONS
From Gold Derby, here's the last look at an early Oscar Prediction list as a guide to potential TFF #52 films. Here's my best shot from their list:
After the Hunt/Amazon-MGM/Luca Guadagnino
The Ballad of a Small Player/Netflix/Edward Berger
Bugonia/Focus/Yorgos Lanthimos
Deliver Me from Nowhere/20th Century/Scott Cooper...
The Hubert Bals Fund is now accepting applications for the 2025 round of its Development Support scheme, offering grants of up to €10,000 to support the early development of projects by eligible filmmakers.
“To work independently, to have a grant at this stage, it’s really great because then you don’t have to take up commercial work to survive,” said All We Imagine as...
Over the years, the Résidence du Festival de Cannes has established itself as a key venue for many of the world’s emerging film talents. From October 1, 2024, to February 15, 2025, the 48th session welcomes six promising new filmmakers, four women and two men, in Paris : Sofia Alaoui, Rudolf Fitzgerald-Leonard, Theo Montoya, Eglé Razumaite, Diwa Shah and Anastasia Veber. They...
After 11 days of an exceptional edition, the Jury of the 77th Festival de Cannes, chaired by American director, screenwriter and actress Greta Gerwig, surrounded by Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, American actress Lily Gladstone, French actress Eva Green, Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki, as well as Spanish director and screenwriter Juan...
MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: FIRST WINNERS PREDICTIONS: PICTURE, DIRECTING AND ACTING
We're four weeks and a couple of days away from Oscar Night. Today MTFB is moving into the business of predicting who will actually win The Academy Award on March 2nd. We start with six "above-the-line" categories: Picture, Direction, and all four Acting categories. As always, TFF films...
MTFB OSCAR SPECIAL; FINAL NOMINATION PREDICTIONS
Well, here we are...months removed from the close of TFF #51 and now down to less than 24 hours until the big reveal of nominees for the 97th Academy Awards. It could be a history making day for film from Telluride and the Oscars. The largest number of nominees in a single year that have come from TFF films is 35 which has...
MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: A LOOK AT TIGHT RACES
In today's update I'm spotlighting the instances in major categories that are tight.
Best Picture: It feels like seven films are safely locked: Conclave, Anora, Emilia Perez, The Brutalist, Wicked, A Complete Unknown and Dune Part Two. The last three slots look like a fight between The Substance, A Real Pain, Nickel...
BAFTA AND TFF #51
First came the longlists and now we have the actual nominees from the British Academy of Film and Televisions Arts (BAFTA). The Brits have nominated 14 films that played at TFF #51 for a total of 45 nominations. Conclave and Emilia Perez had the most noms with a dozen and 11 respectively. Here's the complete rundown of BAFTA nominations and TFF films:
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MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SHORTS
For the first time I'm taking a stab at the most difficult Oscar categories to predict both in terms of nominations and ultimate winners. These may or may not change prior to my final Oscar nomination predictions on Jan. 16th. This year of the short listed shorts TFF had two films make those lists: A Swim Lesson in Documentary Shorts and ...
MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SCREENPLAYS AND MORE
Before we get to this post's Oscar nomination predictions, The Academy last night extended the nomination voting window by two days and moved the announcement of nominees to Sunday, January 19th due to the L.A. fires. Now, onto the predictions which seem sort of a small consideration in light of what's going on in Southern California....