The Venice Film Festival announced winners:
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Golden Lion
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed
Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize
Saint Omer; dir: Alice Diop
Silver Lion Best Director
Luca Guadagnino, Bones and All
Special Jury Prize
No Bears, dir: Jafar Panahi
Best Screenplay
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, Tar
Best Actor
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Marcello Mastroianni Award for for Best New Young Actor or Actress
Taylor Russell, Bones And All
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As far as matching with Oscar, the two that seem to be the most influential would be Best Actress.
A sampling of recent Best Actress/Oscar matches
Penelope Cruz, Parallel Mothers (nom)
Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of Woman (nom)
Olivia Colman, The Favourite (winner)
Emma Stone, La La Land (winner)
Hellen MIrren, The Queen
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake (nom)
Julianne Moore, Far From Heaven (nom)
We already knew Cate Blanchett was heading in for the nomination. We just don’t know if she will win her second Best Actress Oscar, and third overall.
Just with the Emmy’s ……and it part parcel of entire Hollywood picture THANKFULLY tv series arm of Hollywood continues to grow stronger and trhrive and reject socialist ideals and politics and embrace tv series of vision and intrigue…while enhancing their profile in embracing connecting to variety and diversity culturally WITHOUT LETTING THE LATTER COMPLETELY RUIN the merits of the WINNER.. THE ACADEMY AND AWARDS SEASON FOR FILM CAN LEARN SOO MUCH FROM THE EMMY’S winner of White Lotus and Succession are well deserved and continue to show the Emmy’s are publicly far more respected not in decline unlike their film award season cousins…Emmys ar ein VERY GOOD health indeed in their choices..as i engage with streaming who know? i may be commenting more on and follow more tv series blogs online here going forward…Seriously? why cant film awards season pull itself into line like emmy’s?
Those who familair with me i have DEEP CONCERNS AS MANY OF US ABSOLUTELY SHOULD BE…. because i strongly feel film festivals have TOO MUCH POWER AND SWAY OVER eventual oscar contenders and whiule they entitled to have some say it SHOULD BE limited…esp WHEN LOW BUDGET sociological fanfare through film festivals eyes become all TOO PROMINENT AND DOMINANT effectively ISOLATING AND SUFFOCATING the lifeblood of the academy by DRIVING THE CORE FILM DEMOGRAPHIC Academy needs to SURVIVE as VIABLE BIG TIME GLOBAL event culmination of awards season each year so desperately needs THE MORE DEPENDENT THEY ARE TO LOOK TO FILM FESTIVALS THAT BACK IN THE lesser known, obscure and clearly less regarded and cared about films BOTH on streaming AND in cinemas…the MORE CORE TRADITIONAL OSCAR AUDIENCES PUSHED AWAY…
Despite what i said below..i said ‘ hopeful’ but i not at all confident that Academy will resist growing alarming experctations that low budget sociological…semi leftist fanfare byt that i refer to:
1. The Banshees of Inisherin
2. Bones and All
THE ACADEMY DO NOT NEED MORE OF THE SAME..ONE OF ONLY 2 EXCEPTIONS WAS LAST YRS STUNNING CODA UPSET WIN..BUT WE AND THE ACADEMY CANNOT AFFORD TO SO BLATANTLY FAVOUR FILMS OF THIS ILK…BLACK COMEDIES WON PLENTY AND DRAMA ON CRYS OF FRINGES OF SOCIETY? LIKE WOW HOW MANY MORE TIMES IS ACADEMY GONNA IGNORE IT TRUE INTERESTS IN NAME OF SURVIVABILITY AND RESTORE SOME BROAD APPEAL?
Frankly…Venice and Cannes far too often ignore the big screen intended studio produced films..there is such thing as balance..and Academy would be VERY WISE not to take the film festival bait …for gazillionth time…UNLESS THEY WANT TO ABANDON TOTALLY SILENT MAJORITY OF COMMON SESNE FILM AUDIENCES…
Tar Losing the Golden Lion isn’t a big surprise considering how much praise All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is getting. However, Field not getting any award is kind of a slap in the face. In particular losing director to Cuadagnino must really hurt (not that the Italian didn’t deserve it). I think TAR’s relative poor performance at Venice has lessened its chances at the Oscars, especially in Best Picture (and that always looked a tall order because it isn’t an Oscar bait). But what these results have shown is not so much the weakness of TAR as much as the true strength of its competitors at Venice, especially the Golden Lion winner. All the Beauty and The Bloodshed isn’t only a big favourite for Best Documentary at the Oscars, but could also become the first nonfiction Best Picture nominee. In fact, I think Poitras could be nominated for Best Director in 2023. Looking at other female directors this year, there isn’t really one outstanding and none of them have as strong a film as hers. I mean, she just beat an obvious major Oscar contender for BP in TAR and BD in Field. The possible nominees alongside Field are Spielberg and Chazelle, but we still don’t know how well their respective films will be received. I think they’ll be one women and international nominee. At the moment I have Poitras and Park Chan-Wook in BD.
I think you’re going a bit too far with these ‘relative poor performance’ and ‘slap in the face’. I wouldn’t call it like that.
Blanchett is heart and soul of the story, her performance IS the movie. With awarding her with best actress they awarded TAR as a movie. Besides, no one is winning more than one big prize.
And yeah, TAR isn’t exactly AMPAS taste and very likely won’t win Best Picture at the Oscars. But Blanchett could.
And honestly, what would TAR gain with Best Picture Oscar anyway? Movies like this don’t need it.
Well, you kind of backed up my point. Cate Blanchet is the best thing about the movie and I’m but even sure she’ll win the Oscar. I think k it’s more like Carol and could be difficult for the Academy to connect with it it. That doesn’t bode well for the film if she’s the beat thi g about and her win is far from certain. Banshees did win two big awards. And TAR did relatively poor for a film that’s supposedly a front runner for the Oscar Best Picture and Director awards. It has strengthened both All The Beauty and The Bloodshed and Banshees of Inisherin. BP was always difficult,but Field has to dominate critics awards for director stand a chance of win BD.
the movie may not need it in the long run, but everyone in the cast and the crew wouldn’t mind putting that they worked on an Oscar nominee on their resume. Such a thing will separate you from the masses looking for work.
Blue Jasmine was never a Best Picture or Best Director nominee with the critics and the industry. But that didn’t stop Blanchett from sweeping.
I know that. I’m currently predicting Fraser to run away with Lead Actor and his film to miss BP and BD. It’s not about that link for. I just think Blanchet has a very still competing in Thompson and Yeoh. She only had a Supporting Actress win when she win for Blue Jasmine. It’s a very different story now. She might sweep again, who knows? We’ll have to wait and see. I’m cautioning premature crowning when she actually has big competition unlike Fraser.
It’s way too premature to announce anyone as the winner at this point – including Fraser.
True, but his category is much weaker than Blanchet’s. We could be barking up the wrong tree completely, for all we know. I’m hedging my bet either. It’s just that some people are way to premature on declaring winners and locks. However, I think it’s a fair point that Lead Actor is very weak compared to Lead Actress. There’s ar least a new challenger for Fraser in the shape of Jeremy Pope. But he’s not that well known ,so it’s highly unlikely he could upset Fraser. There are many things that favour Fraser, but we’ll have to wait and see.
It is way too early to claim that Fraser has little competition. He also has negatives that he will have to overcome.
That’s what the best documentary category is for. Not best picture.
Is that also the case for International Feature Films and Animated Feature Films? Any film, in any form, that’s eligible for Best Picture could be nominated for that category. Just because it hadn’t happened yet doesn’t mean it can’t happen. If a documentary is better than a normal Feature Film, it deserves to be nominated gor BP. It’s not often that a documentary beats highly acclaimed films and big Oscar contenders. When that happens, you must pay attention.
Remember that there were seven people who took part in deciding these awards, and that we perhaps shouldn’t draw Oscar conclusions from Venice winners. After all, Tár won the exact same award that La La Land did (and Arrival didn’t win anything that year), and that didn’t mean anything for Lav Diaz in terms of Oscar attention.
I’m more doubtful of Tár’s chances than some here (I have it around 5th-6th place in best picture, the descriptions of the movie don’t really make it sound like a best picture winner and I think there’s a genuinely non-negligible chance of a Carol/Inside Llewyn Davis situation) but I don’t think the Venice wins are proof.
We have to look at what it means for the winners and those that under perform. Winning a major award like the Golden Lion might not mean a great deal for Oscar prospects of filmmakers that don’t have any overlap with the Academy, but it does for those that do and those with big names. Laura Poitras is a previous Oscar winner and all evidence suggests that her film will be one of the most lauded in the awards season and already looks like a clear favourite in documentary for Oscar. I think it looks likely to get more than just documentary from critics and that could possibly push the film to a BP and BD nominations. TAR is supposed to be a critics/festival darling but it looks ti have some competition in that and I doubt the Academy will embrace it if the critics don’t. It looks to have competition in All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, if not others like Aftersun, and it would require TAR to dominate critics awards to stand any chance of winning BD let alone BP. Spielberg will be big competition in BD now and Chazelle might come charging in late with Babylon. Already it’s starting to look TAR’S best hope of winning looks like Blanchet and it’s never an easy hurdle to overcone when an actor is going for their third Oscar.
Thrilled for Colin and Cate. Is Saint Omer eligible for France this year for International Feature?
What time will reviews for The Fabelmans and The Lost King come from TIFF?
Cate should’ve won Supporting for Nightmare Alley imo. I think it’s Ana de Armas, Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett, Glenda Jackson and Yeoh but what do I know
Colin Farrell joins Best Actor w Michael Ward, Hugh, and Brendan Fraser who I hope sweeps. What a shame Viggo is not getting buzz for Crimes of the Future
Nightmare Alley performance was worthy of nomination but not win, in my opinion.
She was snubbed for nomination last season.
I wouldn’t have even nominated her !
And I would. And what now?
Glenda Jackson? Did she come out of her long retirement?
I think we have three definite in Blanchet, Thompson and Yeoh. After that I think it’s going to be Davis, Deadwyler and Lawrence. Blonde will be shut out. Too much for the Academy.
Thompson is definite?
Davis, Deadwyler and Lawrence before Robbie?
Thompson has one of her best performances and is very loved (well, at least by me). The other ones I’m not sure about. I forgot about Robbie and it could well depend on the film and whether it’s not too much for the Academy. The others have Oscar bait roles and that’s something to never underestimate when it comes yo the Oscars.
Hoped for Blonde to win something here but knew it was an uphill battle probably.
Blanchett might be undeniable this season. Like DDL was in There Will Be Blood.
She has three things working against her:
1. Already two time winner and her main competition (Yeoh, Robbie) are Oscarless.
2. Her movie will be almost certainly “cold”, un-sentimental and probably too intelectual for average Oscar voter.
3. Box-office very likely won’t be high (for the reasons see above)
But in the end, sheer might of her performance might be enough.
The type of film makes me think it’s not an obvious winner. There are Warner films and performances. Yeoh could easily win. And I think Deadwyler is beung underestimated, that’s if her film is good enough.
It’s been a long while since 1988 when Meryl Streep easily gave the best performance of the year as Lindsey Chamberlain in A Cry in the Dark. It would have been her third, but I don’t think she had a real chance because her character was so unlikeable (Although I had great sympathy for her and thought she was not guilty).
Overall it was a strong year and Jodie Foster seemed the least likely to win since her film was the most obscure of the lot. But there ya go.
So happy for Cate the Great! Hope she sweeps her way through the rest of the season.
Farrell won’t be going far in this race. ☑️
Oh yeah? Why not? Assume that you have seen the film and performance and can offer a reason.
He’s not a good actor, the role is comedic, the film is a two-hander, my money is on Gleason. Shall I go on?
I think he might be a nominee because the category is so weak this year, especially if his film is BP nominee. There isn’t another big British film that’s a major award contender this year, is there? That will push it and Mcdonagh has a pedigree so it’s not a new territory.
Is Brendan Fraser going to cry ? I hope not ! He’s so sweet !