CANNESERIES SEASON 8 UNVEILS ITS SELECTION

Norman Reedus, Louise Bourgoin, Nicola Coughlan, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Laura Smet, Marie Colomb, Sergio Agüero, Eric Rochant, Manu Payet, Fauve Hautot, Beau Willimon, Sam Claflin, Josh Holloway, Guillaume Labbé, Bille August, Ana Girardot, Lee Soohyuk, César Domboy, Marie Gillain, William Lebghil, Ruben Alves, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson are among the guests at the festival.

28 World Premieres, 8 International Premieres, 3 French Premieres, 1 European Premier. These include The Agency (CANAL+), The Walking Dead: Dead City (CINÉ+ OCS), Duster (MAX), The Count of Monte Cristo (FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS), Kun by Agüero (DISNEY+), Malditos (MAX), Escort Boys (PRIME), Ma femme est une espionne ! (M6) ...

‘CANNESERIES INDUSTRY, a made-to-measure boutique event with prestigious guests: Eric Rochant, Isobel Waller-Bridge, Jane Tranter, Beau Willimon, David Hadda, Clelia Mountford, Alex Boden, David W. Zucker… These days, in order to exist, producers have to redouble their ingenuity: mastering acrobatic financial arrangements, juggling public channels and platforms while trying not to lose their freedom. It's a real balancing act! Our mission at CANNESERIES? To showcase the full breadth and depth of the world of serial production: challenging and daring series, productions designed for the general public, and those event series that everyone looks forward to. With a bit of hindsight, you may see something unique in everything we saw, as we did. What struck us this year was the return to the intimate, to the detriment of the spectacular at all costs. Fewer flashy effects, more stories rooted in reality. Stories nourished by past experiences or the fear of what might happen. An underlying anxiety that creeps into the themes. Even when we laugh, it's often to someone's detriment... or simply to avoid facing up to reality’ - Albin Lewi, Artistic Director of CANNESERIES.

MADAME FIGARO RISING STAR AWARD Read more The 97th Academy Awards | 2025 Winners announced Rick W / Monday, March 3, 2025 0 296   Best Picture Winner Anora Alex Coco, Samantha Quan and Sean Baker, Producers Nominees The Brutalist Nick Gordon, Brian Young, Andrew Morrison, D.J. Gugenheim and Brady Corbet, Producers A Complete Unknown Fred Berger, James Mangold and Alex Heineman, Producers Conclave Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell and Michael A. Jackman, Producers Dune: Part Two Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Tanya Lapointe and Denis Villeneuve, Producers Emilia Pérez Pascal Caucheteux and Jacques Audiard, Producers I'm Still Here Maria Carlota Bruno and Rodrigo Teixeira, Producers Nickel Boys Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Joslyn Barnes, Producers The Substance Coralie Fargeat and Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner, Producers Wicked Marc Platt, Producer   Actor in a Leading Role Winner Adrien Brody The Brutalist   Nominees Timothée Chalamet A Complete Unknown Colman Domingo Sing Sing Ralph Fiennes Conclave Sebastian Stan The Apprentice   Actor in a Supporting Role Winner Kieran Culkin A Real Pain Nominees Yura Borisov Anora Edward Norton A Complete Unknown Guy Pearce The Brutalist Jeremy Strong The Apprentice   Actress in a Leading Role Winner Mikey Madison Anora Nominees Cynthia Erivo Wicked Karla Sofía Gascón Emilia Pérez Demi Moore The Substance Fernanda Torres I'm Still Here   Actress in a Supporting Role Winner Zoe Saldaña Read more MTFB's Almost Final Oscar Winner Predictions / RIP Gene Hackman MTFB's Almost Final Oscar Winner Predictions / RIP Gene Hackman Rick W / Sunday, March 2, 2025 0 292 MTFB'S ALMOST FINAL OSCAR WINNER PREDICTIONS That's right.  "Almost Final".  I finally decided that I'll put up a "Final Final" on Sunday morning so as to have the freshest data for the nine or so categories that are tight.  More on them below.  That said, here are your latest MTFB predictions about who/what wins an Oscar on Sunday night in all 23 categories.  As always, TFF #51 films are in Bold.  A film's previous position is in parentheses to the right of each title. BEST PICTURE 1) Anora (1) 2) Conclave (2) 3) The Brutalist (3) 4) A Complete Unknown (4) 5) Wicked (5) 6) Emilia Perez (6) 7) I'm Still Here (8) 8) The Substance (7) 9) Dune Part Two (9) 10) Nickel Boys (10) BEST DIRECTION 1) Sean Baker/Anora (1) 2) Brady Corbet/The Brutalist (2) 3) James Mangold/A Complete Unknown (3) 4) Coralie Fargeat/The Substance (4) 5) Jacques Audiard/Emilia Perez (5) BEST ACTRESS 1) Mikey Madison/Anora (3) 2) Demi Moore/The Substance (1) 3) Fernanda Torres/I'm Still Here (2) 4) Cynthia Erivo/Wicked (4) 5) Karla Sofia Gascon/Emilia Perez (5) BEST ACTOR 1) Adrien Brody/The Brutalist (1) 2) Timothee Chalamet/A Complete Unknown (2) 3) Read more MTFB Oscar Update: Makeup-Hair, Costumes and More / SAG Awards and TFF #51 / Film Independent Spirit Awards and TFF #51 / Misericordia Trailer MTFB Oscar Update: Makeup-Hair, Costumes and More / SAG Awards and TFF #51 / Film Independent Spirit Awards and TFF #51 / Misericordia Trailer Rick W / Sunday, March 2, 2025 0 57  MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: MAKEUP/HAIR, COSTUMES AND MORE We're in the stretch run now.  Oscar Night is down to less than week from today.  In today's post I update these categories: Makeup/Hair, Costumes, Sound and Visual Effects.  I last posted predictions for these categories on Feb. 10th.  TFF #51 films are in Bold.  Their previous predicted position is indicated to the right in parentheses. BEST MAKEUP/HAIR 1) The Substance (1) 2) Wicked (2) 3) Emilia Perez (3) 4) Nosferatu (5) 5) A Different Man (4) BEST SOUND DESIGN 1) Dune Part Two (3) 2) Wicked (2) 3) A Complete Unknown (1) 4) Emilia Perez (4) 5) The Wild Robot (5) BEST COSTUME DESIGN 1) Wicked (1) 2) Nosferatu (3) 3) Conclave (2) 4) A Complete Unknown (4) 5) Gladiator II (5) BEST VISUAL EFFECTS 1) Dune Part Two (1) 2) Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2) 3) Wicked (3) 4) Better Man (4) 5) Alien: Romulus (5) Comment: I have no TFF #51 films to win in any of these four categories.  The real battle among these four is Sound Design which appears to be a down to the wire race between Dune 2 and Wicked.  I also wouldn't be shocked if A Complete unknown sneaks on Oscar night. Read more MTFB Oscar Update: Predicting the Winners Part Four / Critics Choice and TFF / Director's Guild and Producer's Guild MTFB Oscar Update: Predicting the Winners Part Four / Critics Choice and TFF / Director's Guild and Producer's Guild Rick W / Monday, February 10, 2025 0 52 MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: PREDICTING THE WINNERS PART FOUR Here's the last set of initial predictions for what will win at the Oscar ceremony on March 2nd.  I'll have fresh predictions for Best Picture, Direction and the Acting categories on Thursday.  As always, TFF films are in Bold. BEST COSTUME DESIGN 1) Wicked 2) Conclave 3) Nosferatu 4) A Complete Unknown 5) Gladiator II BEST MAKEUP/HAIR 1) The Substance 2) Wicked 3) Emilia Perez 4) A Different Man 5) Nosferatu   BEST SOUND DESIGN 1) A Complete Unknown 2) Wicked 3) Dune Part Two 4) Emilia Perez 5) The Wild Robot BEST VISUAL EFFECTS 1) Dune Part Two 2) Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 3) Wicked 4) Better Man 5) Alien: Romulus Comment: Among these four categories, TFF's best shot at a win looks to be Conclave in costumes and even that seems fairly unlikely.  Maybe the tightest category of any is Sound.  A Complete Unknown, Wicked and Dune Part Two seem to be in dead heat.  It'll be interesting to see if that changes over the next couple of weeks when we re-visit these categories. CRITICS CHOICE AND TFF Read more Oscar Noms and TFF #51 Rick W / Thursday, January 23, 2025 0 204 OSCAR NOMS AND TFF #51 Good Morning...Oscar nominations are in.  My correct picks to the right in parentheses.  TFF #51 films/performers in Bold. BEST PICTURE (8/10) Conclave Emilia Perez The Brutalist Anora A Complete Unknown Wicked Dune: Part Two The Substance Nickel Boys I'm Still Here BEST DIRECTION (4/5) Brady Corbet/The Brutalist Sean Baker/Anora Jacques Audiard/Emilia Perez Coralie Fargeat/The Substance James Mangold/ A Complete Unknown BEST ACTRESS (5/5) Demi Moore/The Substance Mikey Madison/Anora Karla Sofia Gascon/Emilia Perez Cynthia Erivo/Wicked Fernanda Torres/I'm Still Here BEST ACTOR (4/5) Adrien Brody/The Brutalist Ralph Fiennes/Conclave Timothee Chalamet/A Complete Unknown Colman Domingo/Sing Sing Sebastian Stan/The Apprentice BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (4/5) Zoe Saldana/Emilia Perez Ariana Grande/Wicked Isabella Rossellini/Conclave Felicity Jones/The Brutalist Monica Barbaro/A Complete Unknown BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (5/5) Kieran Culkin/A Real Pain Edward Norton/ A Complete Unknown Guy Pearce/The Brutalist Yura/Borisov/Anora Jeremy Strong/The Apprentice BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (5/5) Conclave Emilia Perez Nickel Boys A Complete Unknown Sing Sing BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (5/5) Anora The Brutalist A Real Pain The Substance September 5 BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE (4/5) Emilia Perez I'm Still Here The Seed of the Sacred Fig The Girl with the Needle Flow BEST ANIMATED FEATURE (5/5) The Wild Robot Flow Inside Out 2 Wallace and Gromet: Vengeance Most Fowl Memoir of a Snail BEST DOCUMNETARY FEATURE (4/5) No Other Land Sugarcane Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat Black Box Diaries Porcelain Wars BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (4/5) The Brutalist Nosferatu Dune: Part Two Maria Emilia Perez BEST EDITING (4/5) Read more MTFB OSCAR SPECIAL: FINAL NOMINATION PREDICTIONS MTFB OSCAR SPECIAL: FINAL NOMINATION PREDICTIONS Rick W / Wednesday, January 22, 2025 0 345  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 happened thrice with TFF films from 2016, 2021 and 2023 (those are the years of the fest).  TFF could see 35+ nominations for films that screened there by the end of the announcement tomorrow morning.  Exciting stuff... So, drumroll please, here are the MTFB final Oscar nomination predictions (as always, TFF films are in Bold.  The film's previous rank is to the right in parentheses). BEST PICTURE 1) Conclave 2) Emilia Perez 3) The Brutalist 4) Anora 5) A Complete Unknown 6) Wicked 7) Dune: Part Two 8) A Real Pain 9) The Substance 10) Sing Sing Others: September 5, Nickel Boys and All We Imagine as Light. Comment: It looks like TFF films will land four of the 10 slots which ties a record for TFF.  However, if any of the "Other" possibilities sneak in over Sing Sing or The Substance, a new record could be set.  I'd really love it if September 5 could slide in. BEST DIRECTION 1) Brady Corbet/The Brutalist 2) Sean Baker/Anora 3) Jacques Audiard/Emilia Perez 4) Edward Berger/Conclave 5) Coralie Fargeat/The Substance Others: James Mangold/ A Complete Unknown, RaMell Ross/Nickel Boys and Payal Kapadia/All We Imagine as Light. BEST ACTRESS 1) Demi Moore/The Substance 2) Mikey Madison/Anora 3) Karla Sofia Gascon/Emilia Perez 4) Cynthia Erivo/Wicked 5) Fernanda Torres/I'm Still Here Others: Marianne Jean-Baptiste/Hard Truths, Pamela Anderson/The Last Showgirl and Angelina Jolie/Maria. BEST ACTOR < Read more BAFTA and TFF #51 / MTFB Oscar Update-It's in Flux-Updating the Big Eight / Interviews and Profiles BAFTA and TFF #51 / MTFB Oscar Update-It's in Flux-Updating the Big Eight / Interviews and Profiles Rick W / Friday, January 17, 2025 0 350 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: Conclave (12): Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Direction, Actor (Fiennes), Supporting Actress (Rossellini), Casting, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Score and Costumes. Emilia Perez (11): Best Film, Best Film Not in the English Language, Direction, Actress (Gascon), Supporting Actress (Saldana), Supporting Actress (Gomez), Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Score and Makeup/Hair. Anora (7): Best Film, Direction, Actress (Madison), Supporting Actor (Borisov), Original Screenplay, Casting and Editing. The Apprentice (3): Best Actor (Stan), Supporting Actor (Strong) and Casting. A Real Pain (2): Best Supporting Actor (Culkin) and Original Screenplay. The Outrun (2): Outstanding British Film and Best Actress (Ronan). All other films have a single nomination as follows: Nickel Boys: Best Adapted Screenplay. No Other Land: Best Documentary. Will & Harper: Best Documentary. The Seed of the Sacred Fig: Best Film Not in the English Language. All We Imagine as Light: Best Film Not in the English Language. Bird: Outstanding British Film. Santosh: Outstanding Debut. Better Man: Best Special Visual Effects. The BAFTA Awards will be handed out on Feb. 16th. The complete set of all BAFTA nominations is linked here. MTFB OSCAR UPDATE-IT'S IN FLUX It's all pretty messy now.  Oscar nominations are now set to be announced on Jan. 23rd.  Today I'm updating the nomination predictions for the Big Eight categories: Picture, Direction, all four acting categories and the two screenplay categories.  My plan at the moment is to focus on updating close races in Monday's post and do a Special Final Oscar Nom post on Wednesday the 22 Read more MTFB Oscar Update: Shorts / The Precursors' Tale / Oscar Voters: Hear My Plea(s) Please / Interviews and Profiles MTFB Oscar Update: Shorts / The Precursors' Tale / Oscar Voters: Hear My Plea(s) Please / Interviews and Profiles Rick W / Wednesday, January 15, 2025 0 308 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  Beautiful Men in Animated Shorts. Here's where I'm guessing the nominations will land on Jan. 19th: ANIMATED SHORTS 1) Me 2) Maybe Elephants 3) Bottle George 4) Magic Candles 5)Wander to Wonder Others: In the Shadow of the Cypress, The 21 and Yuck. DOCUMENTARY SHORTS 1) Makayla's Voice: A Letter to the World 2) The Only Girl in the Orchestra 3) A Swim Lesson 4) Incident 5) Once Upon a Time in Ukraine Others: The Quilters, Death by Numbers and Instruments of a Beating Heart. LIVE ACTION SHORTS 1) The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent 2) Dovecote 3) An Orange from Jaffa 4) Room Taken 5) The Masterpiece Others: Crust, I Am Not a Robot and Clodagh. THE PERCURSORS' TALE A bunch of us that try to tell you what's going to happen when Oscar nominations and winners are announced take a look at various "precursor awards".  It's a way to try to divine what the film industry is thinking as we move closer to the nomination reveal and then the Oscar ceremony itself. And there are, if you choose to look at them, a ton of precursors.  My buddy Mark Johnson of The Awards Alchemist (housed at Erik Anderson's Awards Watch) annually puts together what he refers to as the Big Board of Precursors You can find its current status here.  Mark's Awards Alchemist predictions are linked here. Next Best Picture's Matt Neglia does a super Read more MTFB Oscar Update: Screenplays and More / MTFB Predicted Nomination Totals / SAG and DGA Nominations and TFF / IndieWire's 50+ Most Anticipated and TFF MTFB Oscar Update: Screenplays and More / MTFB Predicted Nomination Totals / SAG and DGA Nominations and TFF / IndieWire's 50+ Most Anticipated and TFF Rick W / Saturday, January 11, 2025 0 373  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. Here are updated nomination predictions for the Screenplay categories as well as for Best Costume Design, Makeup/Hair and Visual Effects. These categories were last predicted on Dec. 26th.  A film's previous rank appears to the right in parentheses. TFF #51 films are in Bold. BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY 1) Conclave (1) 2) Emilia Perez (2) 3) Sing Sing (3) 4) Nickel Boys (4) 5) Dune Part Two (5) Others: A Complete Unknown, Wicked and The Room Next Door. BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 1) Anora (1) 2) The Brutalist (2) 3) A Real Pain (3) 4) The Substance (4) 5) September 5 (5) Others: Hard Truths, All We Imagine as Light and The Seed of the Sacred Fig. BEST COSTUME DESIGN 1) Wicked (1) 2) Dune Part Two (2) 3) Gladiator II (4) 4) Maria (3) 5) Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (5) Others: Nosferatu, Conclave and Blitz. BEST MAKEUP/HAIR 1) The Substance (1) 2) Wicked (2) 3) Dune Part Two (3) 4) Nosferatu (4) 5) A Different Man (5) Others: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Emilia Perez, The Apprentice. BEST VISUAL EFFECTS Read more RSS Load next 10 article(s) (22 left)Loading...