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  • Everything Everywhere All at Once Will Win Best Picture

    Everything Everywhere All at Once Will Win Best Picture

    Since 2015, when Todd McCarthy’s Spotlight won Best Picture, there has been a constant among the films the Academy has awarded with their highest honor: a sociocultural awareness. This is not to say the Academy’s desire to choose a socially aware film to represent what they believe to be the best of the year is new, far from it. In 1968, a famously landmark year for American political activism that saw major leaps in the public consciousness’ awareness of movements promoting anti-war sentiment, civil rights, women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, etc., the Sidney Poitier-starring In the Heat of the Night was declared the Academy’s winner. It’s no accident that a film featuring a white and Black man working together to solve a murder case in a racist contemporary Mississippi town won in a year where societal cognizance about injustices towards minority and marginalized groups was at a peak. All of this is to say that when political passion is at a high, Academy members do tend to lean towards media that they feel reflects and/or represents the sociocultural awareness they want to see.  

    Now for almost a decade, American culture has experienced an incredible amount of political passion and polarization and while this politicization has seen highs and lows during this timeframe, it has consistently been higher during this period than it has been in around 50 years. What this means is that the Academy choosing films like Spotlight (a film that celebrates journalists by telling the story of the intrepid Boston Globe reporters who uncovered widespread sex abuse among clergy in the Boston area), Moonlight (a coming-of-age story charting the early life of a young gay, Black man dealing with his identity), The Shape of Water (a love story between a deaf woman and a fish man, conveying the message that everybody deserves love no matter how different they seem), Green Book (a buddy film telling the story of an Italian-American bouncer hired to drive an African-American pianist on his tour of the South), Parasite (an examination of class discrimination through the lens of a home invasion thriller), Nomadland (a film that tells the story of a woman who, after losing everything in the Great Recession, becomes a nomad), and CODA (the story of a deaf family and their daughter who works to pursue her passion for music) is telling. Now I don’t enjoy reducing these films to these short descriptions because the majority of them are fantastic works of art that transcend these easy attempts to identify what they’re about, but I only hope to illustrate that they all share a level of consciousness over contemporary sociocultural issues. 

    This trend shows no signs of stopping anytime soon and therefore we must consider this factor when prognosticating our Best Picture winner. At this point in the season, we’ve established that our three frontrunners are Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Fabelmans, and The Banshees of Inisherin. These films have appeared at all the major precursors, they all have the Golden Globe nomination trifecta, and have found success with the critics’ groups. However, in my eyes, Everything Everywhere All at Once leads the pack. Both The Fabelmans and The Banshees of Inisherin don’t explicitly deal with any major sociocultural dilemma while EEAAO tackles themes of generational trauma and the experiences of immigrants (and their children) in America. On top of that, the film is probably one of the biggest word-of-mouth successes of the year and has sustained its momentum all the way from its original theatrical release in March. 

    Some may say that the old guard of the Academy won’t go for a film as wacky, deeply genre, and/or crude as EEAAO. But if the success of films like The Shape of Water, Get Out, and Parasite have shown anything it’s that these elements are not as much of a detriment in the eyes of the Academy as they used to be. If a film is beloved enough, which EEAAO most definitely is, it forgoes the need to conform to many of the traditional markings of a Best Picture winner. In my view, the film has the perfect cocktail of qualities on its side and doesn’t seem to be stopping anytime soon. Don’t be surprised to see the Daniels and the rest of their team on the stage waving that little gold man at the end of Oscar night. 

  • Golden Globes Nominations 2023: ‘Banshees’ Leads With 8, ‘Everything Everywhere’ and ‘Fabelmans’ Cement Themselves as the Frontrunners

    Golden Globes Nominations 2023: ‘Banshees’ Leads With 8, ‘Everything Everywhere’ and ‘Fabelmans’ Cement Themselves as the Frontrunners

    The Golden Globes released their slate of nominees this morning, shedding further light on what to expect this awards season. One thing I always mention when the Golden Globe noms are released is the stat that in the last 10 years (in all years except the most recent), the eventual Best Picture winner was nominated for a Best Film, Director, and Screenplay award at the Globes before going on to win Oscar’s biggest prize.

    This year, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Fabelmans, and Banshees of Inisherin received that nomination trifecta, cementing those films as the three biggest players of the season. The former pair will likely be the two biggest frontrunners and I predict EEAAO will end up winning it all in the end.

    Another stat I want to mention is that in the last ten years, at least four of the five nominees in Best Film – Drama went on to earn Best Picture nominations later on in their respective years. That means that at most one of Avatar 2, Elvis, The Fabelmans, Tar, and Top Gun: Maverick won’t make the slate. I think that film is most likely to be Avatar 2 (my current BP slate being EEAAO, The Fabelmans, ‘Banshees’, Tar, Women Talking, Babylon, Top Gun: Maverick, Elvis, She Said). However, there is also a pretty good chance that all the films nominated here will make it in, hopefully the CCA nominations coming out on Wednesday will provide another piece of the puzzle.

    Here are the 2023 Golden Globe nominees:

    Film

    Best Picture (Drama)

    • Avatar: The Way of Water
    • Elvis
    • The Fabelmans
    • Tar
    • Top Gun: Maverick

    Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)

    • Babylon
    • The Banshees of Inisherin
    • Everything Everywhere All at Once
    • Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
    • Triangle of Sadness

    Best Animated Film

    • Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
    • Inu-Oh
    • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
    • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
    • Turning Red

    Best Picture (Non-English Language)

    • All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)
    • Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)
    • Close (Belgium)
    • Decision to Leave (South Korea)
    • RRR (India)

    Best Actress (Drama)

    • Cate Blanchett (Tar)
    • Olivia Colman (Empire of Light)
    • Viola Davis (The Woman King)
    • Ana de Armas (Blonde)
    • Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans)

    Best Actor (Drama)

    • Austin Butler (Elvis)
    • Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
    • Hugh Jackman (The Son)
    • Bill Nighy (Living)
    • Jeremy Pope (The Inspection)

    Best Actress (Musical or Comedy)

    • Lesley Manville (Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris)
    • Margot Robbie (Babylon)
    • Anya Taylor-Joy (The Menu)
    • Emma Thompson (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande)
    • Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

    Best Actor (Musical or Comedy)

    • Diego Calva (Babylon)
    • Daniel Craig (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)
    • Adam Driver (White Noise)
    • Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)
    • Ralph Fiennes (The Menu)

    Best Supporting Actress

    • Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
    • Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin)
    • Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
    • Dolly De Leon (Triangle of Sadness)
    • Carey Mulligan (She Said)

    Best Supporting Actor

    • Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin)
    • Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin)
    • Brad Pitt (Babylon)
    • Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
    • Eddie Redmayne (The Good Nurse)

    Best Director

    • James Cameron (Avatar: The Way of Water)
    • Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
    • Baz Luhrmann (Elvis)
    • Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)
    • Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)

    Best Screenplay

    • The Banshees of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh
    • Everything Everywhere All at Once, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
    • The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner
    • Tar, Todd Field
    • Women Talking, Sarah Polley

    Best Original Score

    • Babylon, Justin Hurwitz
    • The Banshees of Inisherin, Carter Burwell
    • The Fabelmans, John Williams
    • Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Alexandre Desplat
    • Women Talking, Hildur Guðnadóttir

    Best Original Song

    • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, “Lift Me Up” by Tems, Ludwig Göransson, Rihanna and Ryan Coogler
    • Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, “Ciao Papa” by Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo del Toro
    • RRR, “Naatu Naatu” by Kala Bhairava, M.M. Keeravani, Rahul Sipligunj
    • Top Gun: Maverick, “Hold My Hand” by Lady Gaga, Bloodpop, Benjamin Rice
    • Where the Crawdads Sing, “Carolina” by Taylor Swift

    TV

    Best Drama Series

    • Better Call Saul
    • The Crown
    • House of the Dragon
    • Ozark
    • Severance

    Best Musical or Comedy Series

    • Abbott Elementary
    • The Bear
    • Hacks
    • Only Murders in the Building
    • Wednesday

    Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or TV Movie

    • Black Bird
    • Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
    • The Dropout
    • Pam and Tommy
    • The White Lotus

    Best Actress (Drama)

    • Emma D’Arcy (House of the Dragon)
    • Laura Linney (Ozark)
    • Imelda Staunton (The Crown)
    • Hilary Swank (Alaska Daily)
    • Zendaya (Euphoria)

    Best Actor (Drama)

    • Jeff Bridges (The Old Man)
    • Kevin Costner (Yellowstone)
    • Diego Luna (Andor)
    • Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul)
    • Adam Scott (Severance)

    Best Actress (Musical or Comedy)

    • Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary)
    • Kaley Cuoco (The Flight Attendant)
    • Selena Gomez (Only Murders in the Building)
    • Jenna Ortega (Wednesday)
    • Jean Smart (Hacks)

    Best Actor (Musical or Comedy)

    • Donald Glover (Atlanta)
    • Bill Hader (Barry)
    • Steve Martin (Only Murders in the Building)
    • Martin Short (Only Murders in the Building)
    • Jeremy Allen White (The Bear)

    Best Supporting Actress (Musical, Comedy or Drama)

    • Elizabeth Debicki (The Crown)
    • Hannah Einbinder (Hacks)
    • Julia Garner (Ozark)
    • Janelle James (Abbott Elementary)
    • Sheryl Lee Ralph (Abbott Elementary)

    Best Supporting Actor (Musical, Comedy or Drama)

    • John Lithgow (The Old Man)
    • Jonathan Pryce (The Crown)
    • John Turturro (Severance)
    • Tyler James Williams (Abbott Elementary)
    • Henry Winkler (Barry)

    Best Actress (Limited Series, Anthology Series or TV Movie)

    • Jessica Chastain (George and Tammy)
    • Julia Garner (Inventing Anna)
    • Lily James (Pam and Tommy)
    • Julia Roberts (Gaslit)
    • Amanda Seyfried (The Dropout)

    Best Actor (Limited Series, Anthology Series or TV Movie)

    • Taron Egerton (Black Bird)
    • Colin Firth (The Staircase)
    • Andrew Garfield (Under the Banner of Heaven)
    • Evan Peters (Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story)
    • Sebastian Stan (Pam and Tommy)

    Best Supporting Actress (Limited Series, Anthology Series or TV Movie)

    • Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus)
    • Claire Danes (Fleishman Is in Trouble)
    • Daisy Edgar-Jones (Under the Banner of Heaven)
    • Niecy Nash (Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story)
    • Aubrey Plaza (The White Lotus)

    Best Supporting Actor (Limited Series, Anthology Series or TV Movie)

    • F. Murray Abraham (The White Lotus)
    • Domhnall Gleeson (The Patient)
    • Paul Walter Hauser (Black Bird)
    • Richard Jenkins (Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story)
    • Seth Rogen (Pam and Tommy)

    Source: CNET

  • AFI Top 10 Announced: No Major Misses as This Year’s Contenders Become Much Clearer

    AFI Top 10 Announced: No Major Misses as This Year’s Contenders Become Much Clearer

    The AFI awards are announced over a month before nominations are released yet are consistently one of the most consistently strong predictors of the Best Picture slate. Last year, Drive My Car was the only Best Picture nominee that didn’t appear in AFI’s slate and in the last seven years, in a single year, a max of two films have made Best Picture without hitting AFI. That trend shows no signs of stopping and with that, here is AFI’s slate.

    AFI Movies of the Year

    • “Avatar: The Way of Water” (20th Century Studios)
    • “Elvis” (Warner Bros.)
    • “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
    • “The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures)
    • “Nope” (Universal Pictures)
    • “She Said” (Universal Pictures)
    • “Tár” (Focus Features)
    • “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount Pictures)
    • “The Woman King” (Sony Pictures)
    • “Women Talking” (MGM/United Artists Releasing)

    AFI Television Programs of the Year

    • “Abbott Elementary” (ABC)
    • “The Bear” (FX)
    • “Better Call Saul” (AMC)
    • “Hacks” (HBO Max)
    • “Mo” (Netflix)
    • “Pachinko” (Apple TV+)
    • “Reservation Dogs” (FX)
    • “Severance” (Apple TV+)
    • “Somebody Somewhere” (HBO)
    • “The White Lotus” (HBO)

    AFI Special Award

    • “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight Pictures)

    Source: Variety

    In past years, AFI has one of the best track records when it comes to predicting the Oscar nomination slate.

    • 2022 – 9 of the 10 Oscar nominees received a nod from the AFI (Missed: Drive My Car)
    • 2021 – 6 of 8 (Missed: Promising Young Woman and The Father)
    • 2020 – 8 of 9 (Missed: Ford v Ferrari)
    • 2019 – 6 of 8 (Missed: Vice and Bohemian Rhapsody)
    • 2018 – 7 of 9 (Missed: Phantom Thread and Darkest Hour)
    • 2017: 7 of 9 (Missed: Lion and Hidden Figures)
    • 2016: 6 of 8 (Missed: The Revenant and Brooklyn)

    (Note: The AFI Top 10 can only include American films but in 2020 and 2019, Parasite and Roma, respectively, won AFI Special Awards)

    Here’s every film that did not make the AFI cut but received either a Golden Globe, SAG, Critics Choice, BAFTA, or National Board of Review nod on their way to becoming a Best Picture nominee.

    • Drive My Car – none
    • The Father – Nominated at BAFTA and at the Golden Globes
    • Promising Young Woman – Nominated for Best Picture at Critics Choice. Also nominated by the Golden Globes, BAFTA, and the National Board of Review.
    • Ford v Ferrari – Nominated for Best Picture at the Critics Choice Awards and by the National Board of Review
    • Vice – Nominated at both Golden Globes and Critics Choice
    • Bohemian Rhapsody – Nominated at Golden Globes (won as well) and SAG
    • Phantom Thread – Nominated by National Board of Review
    • Darkest Hour – Nominated at BAFTA and at Critics Choice
    • Lion – Nominated at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice
    • Hidden Figures – Nominated at SAG (won as well) and picked by the NBR
    • The Revenant – Nominated by Golden Globes (won as well), BAFTAs (won as well), and the Critics Choice Awards
    • Brooklyn – Nominated at the Critics Choice Awards

    It seems likely that around 2 to 4 of the 11 films chosen by AFI (including The Banshees of Inisherin’s Special Award), and if four films do miss my picks for what those will be are (in order from most to least likely to miss): Nope, Avatar: The Way of the Water, The Woman King, and She Said.

  • National Board of Review Releases Their Top 10; ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Named Best Film

    National Board of Review Releases Their Top 10; ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Named Best Film

    ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ won its first major award and the second major critics award of the year (after Tar won NYFCC on December 2nd). Claudio Miranda also picked up his second major cinematography prize after starting the season by triumphing at NYFCC. Both my top frontrunners (Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Fabelmans) both made the cut, cementing their place as the top of this year’s contenders.

    The Banshees of Inisherin also performed well, winning for both its stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson (in Best Actor and Supporting Actor respectively) and in Original Screenplay. ‘Banshees’, along with Women Talking and NYFCC winner Tar (which did not make the cut here) round out the top five strongest players.

    NBR is our first semi-strong predictor of the Best Picture nominee slate, here is its track record in the past 10 years:

    2012 — 7/9
    2013 — 5/9
    2014 — 4/8
    2015 — 5/8
    2016 — 7/9
    2017 — 6/9 (The Shape of Water was not picked by the NBR)
    2018 — 4/8
    2019 — 6/9 (Parasite won Best Foreign Language Film)
    2020 — 5/8                                                                                                                                                                                       2021 – 7/10

    Also, in the last 10 years every eventual Best Picture winner except for The Shape of Water in 2017 was a member of the NBR’s Top 10 Films, which makes it seem very likely that the eventual Best Picture winner from this year will one of the 10 films chosen by the NBR.

    Here are the National Board of Review’s 2022 honorees:

    Best Film
    Top Gun: Maverick

    Best Director
    Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans

    Best Actor
    Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin

    Best Actress
    Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Best Supporting Actor
    Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin

    Best Supporting Actress
    Janelle Monáe, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

    Best Original Screenplay
    Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin

    Best Adapted Screenplay
    Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell, All Quiet on the Western Front

    Breakthrough Performance
    Danielle Deadwyler, Till

    Breakthrough Performance
    Gabriel LaBelle, The Fabelmans

    Best Directorial Debut
    Charlotte Wells, Aftersun

    Best Animated Feature
    Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

    Best International Film
    Close

    Best Documentary
    Sr.

    Best Ensemble
    Women Talking

    Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
    Claudio Miranda, Top Gun: Maverick

    NBR Freedom of Expression Awards

    All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    Argentina, 1985

    Top Films (in alphabetical order):

    Aftersun

    Avatar: The Way of Water

    The Banshees of Inisherin

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    The Fabelmans

    Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

    RRR

    Till

    The Woman King

    Women Talking

    Top 5 International Films (in alphabetical order)

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    Argentina, 1985

    Decision to Leave

    EO

    Saint Omer

    Top 5 Documentaries (in alphabetical order)

    All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    All That Breathes

    Descendant

    Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

    Wildcat

    Top 10 Independent Films (in alphabetical order)

    Armageddon Time

    Emily the Criminal

    The Eternal Daughter

    Funny Pages

    The Inspection

    Living

    A Love Song

    Nanny

    The Wonder

    To Leslie

    Source: Deadline

     

    Based on NBR’s track record, we can assume that it’s pretty likely that at least 6 of the 11 films picked by NBR will go on to become Best Picture nominees. In my mind, this is the list of NBR’s top eleven films in order of their likelihood to get a BP nomination: Everything Everywhere All at Once (my predicted winner at this stage), The Fabelmans, The Banshees of Inisherin, Women Talking, Top Gun: Maverick, Glass Onion, Till, Aftersun, The Woman King, Avatar: The Way of the Water, RRR.

    With AFI coming out with its list tomorrow, Oscar season is truly coming into full swing!

  • My 200(ish) Favorite Shots of All-Time

    My 200(ish) Favorite Shots of All-Time

    Even though I wasn’t able to choose only one shot from these movies I wanted to recognize the cinematography of ‘Far From Heaven’, ‘The Thin Red Line’, ‘All That Heaven Allows’, ‘Blood and Black Lace’, ‘The Umbrellas of Cherbourg’, and ‘Goodbye, Dragon Inn’ as fantastic

    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

    ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’

    Director: Robert Wiene

    Cinematographer: Willy Hameister

    Faust (1926)

    ‘Faust’ (Universum Film)

    Director: F.W. Murnau

    Cinematographer: Carl Hoffmann

    The General (1926)

    ‘The General’ (United Artists)

    Director: Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman

    Cinematographer: Bert Haines and Devereaux Jennings

    Metropolis (1927)

    Director: Fritz Lang

    Cinematographer: Karl Freund. Gunther Rittau, Walter Ruttman

    Earth (1930)

    ‘Earth’ (Amkino)

    Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko

    Cinematographer: Daniil Demutsky

    M (1931)

    ‘M’ (Vereinigte)

    Director: Fritz Lang

    Wooden Crosses (1932)

    ‘Wooden Crosses’ (Pathe-Natan)

    Gone With the Wind (1939)

    ‘Gone With The Wind’ (MGM)

    The Long Voyage Home (1940)

    ‘The Long Voyage Home’ (United Artists)

    Citizen Kane (1941)

    ‘Citizen Kane’ (RKO Radio)

    Director: Orson Welles

    Cinematographer: Gregg Toland

    Casablanca (1942)

    ‘Casablanca’ (Warner Bros.)

    Day of Wrath (1943)

    ‘Day of Wrath’ (Palladium)

    The Gang’s All Here (1943)

    ‘The Gang’s All Here’ (20th Century Fox)

    Leave Her to Heaven (1945)

    ‘Leave Her to Heaven’ (20th Century Fox)

    Black Narcissus (1947)

    ‘Black Narcissus’ (GFD)

    Macbeth (1948)

    The Third Man (1949)

    Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

    ‘Singin in the Rain’ (MGM)

    Ugetsu (1953)

    ‘Ugetsu’ (Daiei)

    The Night of the Hunter (1955)

    ‘The Night of the Hunter’ (United Artists)

    Pather Panchali (1955)

    ‘Pather Panchali’ (Curzon)

    The Searchers (1956)

    ‘The Searchers’ (Warner Bros.)

    Funny Face (1957)

    ‘Funny Face’ (Paramount)

    Vertigo (1958)

    ‘Vertigo’ (Paramount)
    ‘Vertigo’ (Paramount)

    Black Sunday (1960)

    ‘Black Sunday’ (Unidis)

    La Dolce Vita (1960)

    ‘La Dolce Vita’ (Cineriz)

    Letter Never Sent (1960)

    ‘Letter Never Sent’ (Mosfilm)

    Macario (1960)

    ‘Macario’ (Azteca)

    Psycho (1960)

    ‘Psycho’ (Paramount)

    The Virgin Spring (1960)

    ‘The Virgin Spring’ (SF-Produktion)

    La Notte (1961)

    ‘La Notte’ (United Artists)

    Ivan’s Childhood (1962)

    ‘Ivan’s Childhood’ (Mosfilm)

    8 1/2 (1963)

    ‘8 1/2’ (Cineriz)

    The Leopard (1963)

    ‘The Leopard’ (Titanus)

    Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

    ‘Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’ (Columbia)

    Kwaidan (1964)

    ‘Kwaidan’ (Toho)
    ‘Kwaidan’ (Toho)

    Soy Cuba (1964)

    ‘Soy Cuba’ (Mosfilm)

    Doctor Zhivago (1965)

    ‘Doctor Zhivago’ (MGM)

    The Sound of Music (1965)

    ‘The Sound of Music’ (20th Century Fox)

    The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)

    ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ (PEA)

    Persona (1966)

    ‘Persona’ (Svensk)

    Cool Hand Luke (1967)

    Marketa Lazarova (1967)

    ‘Marketa Lazarova’ (Barrandov)

    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

    “2001: A Space Odyssey” (MGM)
    “2001: A Space Odyssey” (MGM)

    The Conformist (1970)

    ‘The Conformist’ ()

    A Clockwork Orange (1971)

    ‘A Clockwork Orange’ (Warner Bros.)

    Dirty Harry (1971)

    ‘Dirty Harry’ (Warner Bros.)

    Walkabout (1971)

    ‘Walkabout’ (20th Century Fox)

    Cries and Whispers (1972)

    ‘Cries and Whispers’ (Svensk)

    The Godfather (1972)

    ‘The Godfather’ (Paramount)

    The Mechanic (1972)

    ‘The Mechanic’ (1972)

    Solaris (1972)

    ‘Solaris’ (Mosfilm)
    ‘Solaris’ (Mosfilm)

    The Exorcist (1973)

    ‘The Exorcist’ (Warner Bros.)

    The Holy Mountain (1973)

    ‘The Holy Mountain’ (ABKCO)

    Barry Lyndon (1975)

    ‘Barry Lyndon’ (Warner Bros.)
    ‘Barry Lyndon’ (Warner Bros.)

    The Mirror (1975)

    ‘The Mirror’ ()

    My American Friend (1977)

    ‘The American Friend’ (Cinegate)

    Star Wars (1977)

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    ‘Star Wars’ (20th Century Fox)

    Suspiria (1977)

    ‘Suspiria’ (Seda Spettacoli)

    Days of Heaven (1978)

    ‘Days of Heaven’ ()

    The Deer Hunter (1978)

    ‘The Deer Hunter’ (Universal)

    Alien (1979)

    ‘Alien’ (20th Century Fox)

    Apocalypse Now (1979)

    ‘Apocalypse Now’ (United Artists)

    Mad Max (1979)

    ‘Mad Max’ (Roadshow)

    Manhattan (1979)

    ‘Manhattan’ (United Artists)

    Stalker (1979)

    ‘Stalker’ (Mosfilm)

    Raging Bull (1980)

    ‘Raging Bull’ (United Artists)

    The Shining (1980)

    ‘The Shining’ (Warner Bros.)
    ‘The Shining’ (Warner Bros.)

    The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

    ‘Empire Strikes Back’ (20th Century Fox)
    ‘Empire Strikes Back’ (20th Century Fox)

    Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

    ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ (Paramount)

    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

    ‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’ (Universal)

    Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

    ‘Once Upon a Time in America’ (Warner Bros.)The Princess Bride (1987)

    Paris, Texas (1984)

    ‘Paris, Texas’ (20th Century Fox)

    Blue Velvet (1986)

    ‘Blue Velvet’ (DEG)

    Manhunter (1986)

    ‘Manhunter’ (DEG)

    Mirch Masala (1986)

    ‘Mirch Masala’ (NFDC)

    The Princess Bride (1987)

    ‘The Princess Bride’ (20th Century Fox)

    Wings of Desire (1987)

    ‘Wings of Desire’ (Orion)

    Akira (1988)

    ‘Akira’ (Toho)

    Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

    ‘Grave of the Fireflies’ (Studio Ghibli)
    ‘Grave of the Fireflies’ (Studio Ghibli)

    My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

    ‘My Neighbor Totoro’ (Studio Ghibli)

    Dreams (1990)

    ‘Dreams’ (Warner Bros.)

    Goodfellas (1990)

    ‘Goodfellas’ (Warner Bros.)

    Miller’s Crossing (1990)

    ‘Miller’s Crossing’ (20th Century Fox)

    Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

    ‘Raise the Red Lantern’ (Momentum)

    Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

    ‘Terminator 2: Judgement Day’ (Tristar)

    Thelma + Louise (1991)

    ‘Thelma and Louise’ (MGM)

    Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

    ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’ (Columbia)

    Jurassic Park (1993)

    ‘Jurassic Park’ (Universal)

    The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

    ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ (Disney/Touchstone)

    Schindler’s List (1993)

    ‘Schindler’s List’ (Universal)

    Forrest Gump (1994)

    ‘Forrest Gump’ (Paramount)

    The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

    ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ (Columbia)

    Three Colors: Red (1994)

    ‘Three Colors: Red’ (Miramax)

    Fallen Angels (1995)

    ‘Fallen Angels’

    Se7en (1995)

    ‘Se7en’ (New Line)

    Fargo (1996)

    ‘Fargo’ (Gramercy)

    Romeo + Juliet (1996)

    ‘Romeo + Juliet’ (20th Century Fox)

    A Little Princess (1997)

    ‘A Little Princess’ (Warner Bros.)

    L.A. Confidential (1997)

    ‘L.A. Confidential’ (Warner Bros.)

    Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evengelion (1997)

    Dil Se.. (1998)

    ‘Dil Se..’ (Eros)

    Mulan (1998)

    ‘Mulan’ (Disney)

    Saving Private Ryan (1998)

    ‘Saving Private Ryan’ (Dreamworks)

    The Truman Show (1998)

    ‘The Truman Show’ (Paramount)

    Adolescence of Utena (1999)

    Fight Club (1999)

    ‘Fight Club’ ()

    The Matrix (1999)

    ‘The Matrix’ (Warner Bros.)

    American Psycho (2000)

    ‘American Psycho’ (Lionsgate)

    The Cell (2000)

    ‘The Cell’ (New Line)

    In the Mood For Love (2000)

    ‘In the Mood For Love’ (GEM Entertainment)

    Amelie (2001)

    ‘Amelie’ (Miramax)

    The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

    ‘Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring’ (New Line)

    Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2001)

    ‘Kill Bill Vol. 1’

    Spirited Away (2001)

    ‘Spirited Away’ (Studio Ghibli)

    City of God (2002)

    ‘City of God’ (Miramax)

    Far From Heaven (2002)

     

    Hero (2002)

    ‘Hero’ (Miramax)
    ‘Hero’ (Miramax)

    Big Fish (2003)

    ‘Big Fish’ (Columbia)

    Lost in Translation (2003)

    ‘Lost in Translation’ (Focus Features)

    Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

    ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’ (Studio Ghibli)

    Shaun of the Dead (2004)

    ‘Shaun of the Dead’ (Universal)

    Jarhead (2005)

    ‘Jarhead’ (Universal)

    Children of Men (2006)

    ‘Children of Men’ (Universal)

    The Fall (2006)

    ‘The Fall’ (Roadside Attractions)

    Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

    ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ (Picturehouse)

    The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

    ‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford’ (Warner Bros.)

    Sunshine (2007)

    ‘Sunshine’ (Searchlight)

    There Will Be Blood (2007)

    ‘There Will Be Blood’ (Paramount Vantage)

    Enter the Void (2009)

    ‘Enter the Void’ (2009)

    The Road (2009)

    ‘The Road’ (The Weinstein Company)

    Up (2009)

    ‘Up’ (Disney/Pixar)

    Valhalla Rising (2009)

    ‘Valhalla Rising’ (IFC)

    Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)

    ‘Beyond the Black Rainbow’ (Elephant Eye)

    Black Swan (2010)

    ‘Black Swan’ (Searchlight)

    Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)

    ‘Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives’ (Strand)

    Drive (2011)

    ‘Drive’ (FilmDistrict)

    Melancholia (2011)

    ‘Melancholia’ (Magnolia)

    The Tree of Life (2011)

    ‘The Tree of Life’ (Searchlight)

    Django Unchained (2012)

    ‘Django Unchained’ (The Weinstein Company)

    Frances Ha (2012)

    ‘Frances Ha’ (IFC)

    Life of Pi (2012)

    ‘Life of Pi’ (20th Century Fox)

    The Master (2012)

    Skyfall (2012)

    ‘Skyfall’ (MGM)

    Only God Forgives (2013)

    ‘Only God Forgives’ (RADiUS-TWC)
    ‘Only God Forgives’ (RADiUS-TWC)

    Prisoners (2013)

    ‘Prisoners’ (Warner Bros.)

    A Girl Walks Home At Night (2014)

    ‘A Girl Walks Home At Night’ (Kino Lorber)

    The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

    ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ (Searchlight)
    ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ (Searchlight)

    Mr. Turner (2014)

    ‘Mr. Turner’ (Sony Classics)

    Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

    ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ (Warner Bros.)

    The Revenant (2015)

    ‘The Revenant’ (20th Century Fox)

    Slow West (2015)

    ‘Slow West’ (A24)

    Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

    ‘Hunt for the Wilderpeople’ (Madman)

    La La Land (2016)

    ‘La La Land’ (Lionsgate)

    Moonlight (2016)

    ‘Moonlight’ (A24)

    A Ghost Story (2017)

    ‘A Ghost Story’ (A24)

    Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

    ‘Blade Runner 2049’ (Warner Bros.)

    Dunkirk (2017)

    ‘Dunkirk’ (Warner Bros.)

    Phantom Thread (2017)

    ‘Phantom Thread’ (Focus)

    Black Panther (2018)

    ‘Black Panther’ (Disney/Marvel)

    Isle of Dogs (2018)

    Roma (2018)

    Tumbbad (2018)

    ‘Tumbbad’ (Amazon)

    1917 (2019)

    ‘1917’ (Universal)

    First Cow (2019)

    ‘First Cow’ (A24)

    Director: Kelly Reichardt

    Cinematographer: Christopher Blauvelt

     

    Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

    ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ (Neon)

    Director: Celine Sciamma

    Cinematographer: Claire Mathon

    Spencer (2021)

    ‘Spencer’ (NEON)

    Director: Pablo Larrain

    Cinematographer: Claire Mathon

    The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

    ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ (Apple+/A24)
    ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ (Apple+/A24)

    Director: Joel Coen

    Cinematography: Bruno Debonnel

  • Venice 2022 Lineup Announced: Baumbach’s ‘White Noise’ To Open Festival

    Venice 2022 Lineup Announced: Baumbach’s ‘White Noise’ To Open Festival

    The lineup for this year’s Venice Film Festival was just announced. This is the first major festival lineup announcement of the Oscar season and it gives us our first introductory look at this year’s possible contenders. In five of the past six years, a top two Picture contender has played at Venice and this trend shows no signs of stopping.

    In my predictions from last month, I have three of the films that have shown up in the Venice lineup in the top 10: The Son, Bardo, and White Noise. While I’m not confident that any of these films will become a top 2 Best Picture contender this season, I’m essentially guaranteeing that one of them will end up being a top 5 contender (The Whale could end up being the Venice top 5 Picture contender as well).

    Anyways, here is the Venice slate:

    Opening Night

    “White Noise,” Noah Baumbach (in competition)

    Competition/Venezia 79

    “Il Signore delle Formiche,” Gianni Amelio

    “The Whale,” Darren Aronofsky

    “L’Immensita,” Emanuele Crialese

    “Saint Omer,” Alice Diop

    “Blonde,” Andrew Dominik

    “TÁR,” Todd Field

    “Love Life,” Koji Fukada

    “Bardo,” Alejandro González Iñárritu

    “Athena,” Romain Gavras

    “Bones and All,” Luca Guadagnino

    “The Eternal Daughter,” Joanna Hogg

    “Beyond the Wall,” Vahid Jalilvand

    “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Martin McDonagh

    “Argentina, 1985,” Santiago Mitre

    “Chiara,” Susanna Nicchiarelli

    “Monica,” Andrea Pallaoro

    “No Bears,” Jafar Panahi

    “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” Laura Poitras

    “A Couple,” Frederick Wiseman

    “The Son,” Florian Zeller

    “Our Ties,” Roschdy Zem

    “Other People’s Children,” Rebecca Zlotowski

    Out of Competition (Fiction)

    Closing Film: “The Hanging Sun,” Francesco Carrozzini

    “When the Waves Are Gone,” Lav Diaz

    “Living,” Oliver Hermanus

    “Dead for a Dollar,” Walter Hill

    “Call of God,” Kim Ki-duk

    “Dreamin’ Wild,” Bill Pohlad

    “Master Gardener,” Paul Schrader

    “Siccita,” Paolo Virzi

    “Pearl,” Ti West

    “Don’t Worry Darling,” Olivia Wilde

    Here are the Best Picture nominees that went to Venice from the past 6 years:

    2021 – In Competition: The Power of the Dog; Out of Competition: Dune

    2020 – In Competition: Nomadland (Golden Lion winner)

    2019 – In Competition: Joker (Golden Lion winner), Marriage Story

    2018 – In Competition: The Favourite, Roma (Golden Lion winner); Out of Competition: A Star is Born

    2017 – In Competition: The Shape of Water (Golden Lion winner), Three Billboard Outside Ebbing, Missouri

    2016 – In Competition: Arrival, La La Land; Out of Competition: Hacksaw Ridge

    Based on this, it would be reasonable to suspect that at least two fiction films from this year’s in competition and out of competition slates will make it in Best Picture.

    In order of likelihood that will probably be Bardo, The Son, White Noise, The Whale, Don’t Worry Darling, and then The Banshees of Inisherin. Bardo and The Son are my current picks to become Best Picture nominees and I fear that White Noise might suffer the same fate that many other Venice openers have since La La Land in 2016 where they come from big auteurs yet aren’t met with the expected praise (Downsizing, First Man, and The Truth all fit this mold).

    Here is the rest of the slate:

    Out of Competition (Non Fiction)

    “Freedom on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom,” Evgeny Afineevsky

    “The Matchmaker,” Benedetta Argentieri

    “Gli Ultima Giorni Dell’Umanita,” Enrico Ghezzi, Alessandro Gagliardo

    “A Compassionate Spy,” Steve James

    “Music for Black Pigeons,” Jorgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed

    “The Kiev Trial,” Sergei Loznitsa

    “In Viaggio,” Gianfranco Rosi

    “Bobby White Ghetto President,” Christopher Sharp and Moses Bwayo

    “Nuclear,” Oliver Stone

    Out of Competition (Series)

    “The Kingdom Exodus,” Lars von Trier

    “Copenhagen Cowboy,” Nicolas Winding Refn

    Horizons/Orizzonti

    “Princess,” Roberto de Paolis

    “Victim,” Michal Blanko

    “On the Fringe,” Juan Diego Botto

    “Trenque Lauquen,” Laura Citarella

    “Vera,” Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel

    “Innocence,” Guy Davidi

    “Blanquita,” Fernando Guzzoni

    “Pour La France (For My Country,” Rachid Hami

    “A Man,” Kei Ishikawa

    “Bread and Salt,” Damian Kocur

    “Luxembourg, Luxembourg,” Antonio Lukich

    “Ti Mangio IL Cuore,” Pippo Mezzapesa

    “To the North,” Mihai Mincan

    “Autobiography,” Makbul Mubarak

    “La Syndicaliste (The Sitting Duck),” Jean-Paul Salomé

    “World War III,” Houman Seyedi

    “The Happiest Man in the World,” Teona Strugar Mitevska

    “The Bride,” Sérgio Tréfaut

    Horizons/Orizzonti Extra

    “Origin of Evil,” Sébastien Marnier

    “Hanging Gardens,” Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji

    “Amanda,” Carolina Cavalli

    “Red Shoes,” Carlos Eichelmann Kaiser

    “Nezouh,” Soudade Kaadan

    “Notte Fantasma,” Fulvio Risuleo

    “Without Her,” Arian Vazirdaftari

    “Valeria Is Getting Married,” Michal Vinik

    “Goliath,” Adilkhan Yerzhanov

    Source: IndieWire

  • Oscars 2022: ‘CODA’ Wins Best Picture

    Oscars 2022: ‘CODA’ Wins Best Picture

    It was a simultaneously crazy and unsurprising night. Will Smith punched Chris Rock live on television yet the favorite won in any every category except for Best Animated Short (where The Windshield Wiper beat out Robin Robin and Bestia). Anyway, this was the end of an exciting season that will definitely significantly affect the way I personally pick Best Picture. Also, my predictions were 15/9498 on GoldDerby’s rankings so I’m pretty proud of that as well.

    Well, when one season ends another one begins so look out for my first 2023 predictions next month!

    Here were tonight’s winners:

    BEST PICTURE

    Belfast (Focus Features) Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas, Producers

    CODA (Apple Original Films) Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger, Producers

    Don’t Look Up (Netflix) Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers

    Drive My Car (Sideshow/Janus Films)Teruhisa Yamamoto, Producer

    Dune (Warner Bros) Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve and Cale Boyter, Producers

    King Richard (Warner Bros) Tim White, Trevor White and Will Smith, Producers

    Licorice Pizza (MGM/UAR) Sara Murphy, Adam Somner and Paul Thomas Anderson, Producers

    Nightmare Alley (Searchlight Pictures) Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Bradley Cooper, Producers

    The Power of the Dog (Netflix) Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Roger Frappier, Producers

    West Side Story (20th Century Studios) Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers

    BEST DIRECTOR

    Belfast – Kenneth Branagh

    Drive My Car – Ryusuke Hamaguchi

    Licorice Pizza – Paul Thomas Anderson

    The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion – WINNER

    West Side Story – Steven Spielberg

    ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

    Javier Bardem in Being the Ricardos

    Benedict Cumberbatch in The Power of the Dog

    Andrew Garfield in tick, tick…BOOM!

    Will Smith in King Richard – WINNER

    Denzel Washington in The Tragedy of Macbeth

    ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

    Jessica Chastain in The Eyes of Tammy Faye – WINNER

    Olivia Colman in The Lost Daughter

    Penélope Cruz in Parallel Mothers

    Nicole Kidman in Being the Ricardos

    Kristen Stewart in Spencer

    ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

    Ciarán Hinds in Belfast

    Troy Kotsur in CODA – WINNER

    Jesse Plemons in The Power of the Dog

    J.K. Simmons in Being the Ricardos

    Kodi Smit-McPhee in The Power of the Dog

    ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

    Jessie Buckley in The Lost Daughter

    Ariana DeBose in West Side Story – WINNER

    Judi Dench in Belfast

    Kirsten Dunst in The Power of the Dog

    Aunjanue Ellis in King Richard

    WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)

    CODA – Screenplay by Siân Heder – WINNER

    Drive My Car – Screenplay by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe

    Dune – Screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth

    The Lost Daughter – Written by Maggie Gyllenhaal

    The Power of the Dog – Written by Jane Campion

    WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)

    Belfast – Written by Kenneth Branagh – WINNER

    Don’t Look Up – Screenplay by Adam McKay; Story by Adam McKay & David Sirota

    King Richard – Written by Zach Baylin

    Licorice Pizza – Written by Paul Thomas Anderson

    The Worst Person in the World – Written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier

    FILM EDITING

    Don’t Look Up – Hank Corwin

    Dune – Joe Walker – WINNER

    King Richard – Pamela Martin

    The Power of the Dog – Peter Sciberras

    tick, tick…BOOM! – Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum

    CINEMATOGRAPHY

    Dune – Greig Fraser – WINNER

    Nightmare Alley – Dan Laustsen

    The Power of the Dog – Ari Wegner

    The Tragedy of Macbeth – Bruno Delbonnel

    West Side Story – Janusz Kaminski

    PRODUCTION DESIGN

    Dune – Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Zsuzsanna Sipos – WINNER

    Nightmare Alley – Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau

    The Power of the Dog – Production Design: Grant Major; Set Decoration: Amber Richards

    The Tragedy of Macbeth – Production Design: Stefan Dechant; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh

    West Side Story – Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo

    COSTUME DESIGN

    Cruella – Jenny Beavan – WINNER

    Cyrano – Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran

    Dune – Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan

    Nightmare Alley – Luis Sequeira

    West Side Story – Paul Tazewell

    MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)

    Don’t Look Up – Nicholas Britell

    Dune – Hans Zimmer – WINNER

    Encanto – Germaine Franco

    Parallel Mothers – Alberto Iglesias

    The Power of the Dog – Jonny Greenwood

    MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

    “Be Alive” from King Richard
    Music and Lyric by DIXSON and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter

    “Dos Oruguitas” from Encanto
    Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda

    “Down To Joy” from Belfast
    Music and Lyric by Van Morrison

    “No Time To Die” from No Time to Die – WINNER
    Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell

    “Somehow You Do” from Four Good Days
    Music and Lyric by Diane Warren

    SOUND

    Belfast – Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather and Niv Adiri

    Dune – Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett – WINNER

    No Time to Die – Simon Hayes, Oliver Tarney, James Harrison, Paul Massey and Mark Taylor

    The Power of the Dog – Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie and Tara Webb

    West Side Story – Tod A. Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson and Shawn Murphy

    MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

    Coming 2 America – Mike Marino, Stacey Morris and Carla Farmer

    Cruella – Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne and Julia Vernon

    Dune – Donald Mowat, Love Larson and Eva von Bahr

    The Eyes of Tammy Faye – Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh – WINNER

    House of Gucci – Göran Lundström, Anna Carin Lock and Frederic Aspiras

    VISUAL EFFECTS

    Dune – Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor and Gerd Nefzer – WINNER

    Free Guy – Swen Gillberg, Bryan Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis and Dan Sudick

    No Time to Die – Charlie Noble, Joel Green, Jonathan Fawkner and Chris Corbould

    Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings – Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Noel Walker and Dan Oliver

    Spider-Man: No Way Home – Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein and Dan Sudick

    ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

    Encanto – Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino and Clark Spencer – WINNER

    Flee – Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie

    Luca – Enrico Casarosa and Andrea Warren

    The Mitchells vs. the Machines – Mike Rianda, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Kurt Albrecht

    Raya and the Last Dragon – Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, Osnat Shurer and Peter Del Vecho

    DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

    Ascension – Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy and Nathan Truesdell

    Attica – Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry

    Flee – Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie

    Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) – Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein – WINNER

    Writing with Fire – Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh

    INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

    Drive My Car (Japan)

    Flee (Denmark)

    The Hand of God (Italy)

    Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Bhutan)

    The Worst Person in the World (Norway)

    ANIMATED SHORT

    Affairs of the Art – Joanna Quinn and Les Mills

    Bestia – Hugo Covarrubias and Tevo Díaz

    Boxballet – Anton Dyakov

    Robin Robin – Dan Ojari and Mikey Please

    The Windshield Wiper – Alberto Mielgo and Leo Sanchez – WINNER

    DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

    Audible – Matt Ogens and Geoff McLean

    Lead Me Home – Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk

    The Queen of Basketball – Ben Proudfoot – WINNER

    Three Songs for Benazir – Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei

    When We Were Bullies – Jay Rosenblatt

    LIVE ACTION SHORT

    Ala Kachuu – Take and Run Maria Brendle and Nadine Lüchinger

    The Dress – Tadeusz Łysiak and Maciej Ślesicki

    The Long Goodbye – Aneil Karia and Riz Ahmed – WINNER

    On My Mind – Martin Strange-Hansen and Kim Magnusson

    Please Hold – K.D. Dávila and Levin Menekse

     

    Source: AwardsWatch

  • PGA Awards: ‘CODA’ Becomes a Very Possible Best Picture Contender

    PGA Awards: ‘CODA’ Becomes a Very Possible Best Picture Contender

    CODA now has won both PGA and SAG, a combination that no film since Birdman (2015’s Best Picture winner) has had. Couple that with a likely win at WGA later today and CODA could very possibly have the trifecta of PGA, WGA, and SAG. That would make it seem like the film is now the Best Picture frontrunner but I’m going to stay with The Power of the Dog for now.

    Encanto triumphed over The Mitchells vs. the Machines in Best Animated Feature and I don’t think it can be beat at the Oscars on Sunday. Summer of Soul’s win also cemented its place as the frontrunner in the Documentary category.

    Here is the full list of winners:

    Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures

    Being the Ricardos
    Producer: Todd Black, p.g.a.

    Belfast
    Producers: Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik, Tamar Thomas

    CODA – WINNER
    Producers: Philippe Rousselet, p.g.a., Fabrice Gianfermi, p.g.a., Patrick Wachsberger, p.g.a.

    Don’t Look Up
    Producers: Adam McKay, p.g.a., Kevin Messick, p.g.a.

    Dune
    Producers: Mary Parent, p.g.a., Cale Boyter, p.g.a., Denis Villeneuve, p.g.a.

    King Richard
    Producers: Tim White, p.g.a., Trevor White, p.g.a., Will Smith, p.g.a.

    Licorice Pizza
    Producers: Sara Murphy, Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Somner

    The Power of the Dog
    Producers: Jane Campion, p.g.a., Tanya Seghatchian, p.g.a., Emile Sherman, p.g.a. & Iain Canning, p.g.a., Roger Frappier, p.g.a.

    tick, tick…BOOM!
    Producers: Julie Oh, p.g.a., Lin-Manuel Miranda, p.g.a.

    West Side Story
    Producers: Steven Spielberg, p.g.a., Kristie Macosko Krieger, p.g.a.

    Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures

    Encanto – WINNER
    Producers: Yvett Merino, p.g.a., Clark Spencer, p.g.a.

    Luca
    Producers: Andrea Warren, p.g.a.

    The Mitchells vs. The Machines
    Producers: Phil Lord, p.g.a. & Christopher Miller, p.g.a., Kurt Albrecht, p.g.a.

    Raya and the Last Dragon
    Producers: Osnat Shurer, p.g.a., Peter Del Vecho, p.g.a.

    Sing 2
    Producers: Chris Meledandri, p.g.a., Janet Healy, p.g.a.

    Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures

    Ascension
    Producers: Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy, Nathan Truesdell

    The First Wave
    *Eligibility Determination Pending*

    Flee
    *Eligibility Determination Pending*

    In The Same Breath
    Producers: Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang, Julie Goldman & Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn

    The Rescue
    *Eligibility Determination Pending*

    Simple As Water
    Producers: Robin Hessman, Megan Mylan

    Summer Of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) – WINNER
    Producers: Joseph Patel, p.g.a., David Dinerstein, p.g.a., Robert Fyvolent, p.g.a.

    Writing With Fire
    Producers: Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh

    Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Drama

    The Handmaid’s Tale (Season 4)
    The Morning Show (Season 2)
    Squid Game (Season 1)
    Succession (Season 3) – WINNER
    Yellowstone (Season 4)

    Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Comedy

    Cobra Kai (Seasons 3 & 4)
    *Eligibility Determination Pending*

    Curb Your Enthusiasm (Season 11)
    *Eligibility Determination Pending*

    Hacks (Season 1)
    Producers: Jen Statsky, Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello, Michael Schur, David Miner, Morgan Sackett, Joanna Calo, Andrew Law, David Hyman, Joe Mande, Jessica Chaffin

    Only Murders in the Building (Season 1)
    *Eligibility Determination Pending*

    Ted Lasso (Season 2) – WINNER
    Producers: Bill Lawrence, Jason Sudeikis, Brendan Hunt, Joe Kelly, Jeff Ingold, Bill Wrubel, Jane Becker, Jamie Lee, Liza Katzer, Kip Kroeger, Declan Lowney, Leann Bowen, Ashley Nicole Black

    David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited or Anthology Series Television

    Dopesick
    Mare of Easttown – WINNER
    The Underground Railroad
    WandaVision
    The White Lotus

    Award for Outstanding Producer of Televised or Streamed Motion Pictures

    8-Bit Christmas
    Producers: Tim White, p.g.a. & Trevor White, p.g.a., Allan Mandelbaum, p.g.a.

    Come From Away
    *Eligibility Determination Pending*

    Oslo
    *Eligibility Determination Pending*

    Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia
    *Eligibility Determination Pending*

    Single All The Way
    Producer: Joel S. Rice, p.g.a.

    Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free: The Making of Wildflowers – WINNER
    *Eligibility Determination Pending*

    Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television

    60 Minutes (Season 54)
    Allen v. Farrow (Season 1)
    The Beatles: Get Back (Season 1) – WINNER
    Queer Eye (Season 6)
    Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy (Season 1)

    Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment, Variety, Sketch, Standup & Talk Television

    The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Season 27)
    Dave Chappelle: The Closer
    Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Season 8) – WINNER
    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (Season 7)
    Saturday Night Live (Season 47)

    Award for Outstanding Producer of Game & Competition Television

    America’s Got Talent (Season 16)
    Nailed It! (Seasons 5 & 6)
    RuPaul’s Drag Race (Season 13) – WINNER
    Top Chef (Season 18)
    The Voice (Season 20)

    Source: AwardsWatch

  • PGA Preview: ‘The Power of the Dog’ Should Continue Rolling and Can ‘Mitchells’ Beat ‘Encanto’?

    PGA Preview: ‘The Power of the Dog’ Should Continue Rolling and Can ‘Mitchells’ Beat ‘Encanto’?

    The Producers Guild Awards are tomorrow and are the last piece of the puzzle in the Best Picture, Best Animated Feature, and Best Documentary Feature races. Here is a preview of what will most likely be in store and what that means for the Oscars.

    BEST PICTURE

    The Power of the Dog has already won at the Golden Globes, the Critics’ Choice Awards, the Directors Guild Awards, and at BAFTA. To win Best Picture, a film needs at least one of PGA, SAG, and WGA. CODA got SAG and The Power of the Dog isn’t eligible for WGA, so in my eyes, it needs PGA for me to be confident about predicting it. If anything other than ‘Dog’ wins here, we have an actual race on our hands, but otherwise, we will almost undoubtedly be seeing Campion’s film take Best Picture on the 27th.

    BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

    Encanto has won the Golden Globe while The Mitchells vs. the Machines won both the Critics Choice award and the Annie award. Since Inside Out in 2015, every winner in this category has won both a CCA and a PGA. So if ‘Mitchells’ achieves that feat, I’ll gladly be predicting it as my winner. However, Encanto is easily the animated film with the most love from the general public and that fact alone could propel it to victory here at PGA and at the Oscars. Flee still has a chance but it wasn’t nominated at PGA and as it only has an Annie for best Indie film under its belt, I don’t think its chances are very high. Though I will maintain that if more people saw Flee, it would easily win as it’s both beautifully animated and the most emotionally resonant film of the bunch.

    BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

    I had predicted Summer of Soul missing out on a Documentary nomination due to the Doc branch’s infamous snubbing of films composed of mostly archival footage. However, now that Questlove’s film is nominated, and the whole Academy is selecting the winner, Summer of Soul should have an easy path to victory as it’s the doc with the most visibility and acclaim. Flee has a chance, but its lack of a DGA nod is troubling and I think Summer of Soul pretty much has this in the bag with wins at CCA, BAFTA, and ACE. It doesn’t even need to win here at PGA, though it wouldn’t hurt.

  • Critics Choice Awards: Campion, Smith, and DeBose Complete Their Sweeps

    Critics Choice Awards: Campion, Smith, and DeBose Complete Their Sweeps

    Jane Campion, Will Smith, and Ariana DeBose have swept all four major precursors in their respective categories and are essentially locked for wins come Oscar night. The Power of the Dog has now won the Golden Globe, the DGA, the BAFTA, and the CCA for Best Film and will likely win the PGA as well on Saturday. It’s already indisputably the frontrunner for the win, but if TPOTD wins the PGA, I really won’t be able to see any other film earning the top prize.

    In other news, Jessica Chastain and Troy Kotsur won in their respective categories and I think Kotsur will most probably win as a result of him earning 3 (SAG, BAFTA, CCA) of the major precursor awards. I think Kodi Smit-McPhee needed a win here for me to continue to have him as my frontrunner in Supporting Actor but since Kotsur ended up winning, I think the CODA star is the favorite.

    I was expecting three different actresses to win GG, SAG, and CCA, yet Jessica Chastain has now won the latter two. With these wins, she is automatically catapulted to frontrunner status, though she is easily the most vulnerable of any of the other acting category frontrunners.

    Here are the Critics Choice results:

    FILM

    BEST PICTURE

    The Power of the Dog (WINNER)

    Belfast

    CODA

    Don’t Look Up

    Dune

    King Richard

    Licorice Pizza

    Nightmare Alley

    Tick, Tick … Boom!

    West Side Story

    BEST ACTOR

    Will Smith – King Richard (WINNER)

    Nicolas Cage – Pig

    Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog

    Peter Dinklage – Cyrano

    Andrew Garfield – Tick, Tick … Boom!

    Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth

    BEST ACTRESS

    Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye (WINNER)

    Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter

    Lady Gaga – House of Gucci

    Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza

    Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos

    Kristen Stewart – Spencer

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

    Troy Kotsur – CODA (WINNER)

    Jamie Dornan – Belfast

    Ciarán Hinds – Belfast

    Jared Leto – House of Gucci

    J.K. Simmons – Being the Ricardos

    Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

    Ariana DeBose – West Side Story (WINNER)

    Caitríona Balfe – Belfast

    Ann Dowd – Mass

    Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog

    Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard

    Rita Moreno – West Side Story

    BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS

    Jude Hill – Belfast (WINNER)

    Cooper Hoffman – Licorice Pizza

    Emilia Jones – CODA

    Woody Norman – C’mon, C’mon

    Saniyya Sidney – King Richard

    Rachel Zegler – West Side Story

    BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

    Belfast (WINNER)

    Don’t Look Up

    The Harder They Fall

    Licorice Pizza

    The Power of the Dog

    West Side Story

    BEST DIRECTOR

    Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog (WINNER)

    Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza

    Kenneth Branagh – Belfast

    Guillermo del Toro – Nightmare Alley

    Steven Spielberg – West Side Story

    Denis Villeneuve – Dune

    BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

    Kenneth Branagh – Belfast (WINNER)

    Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza

    Zach Baylin – King Richard

    Adam McKay, David Sirota – Don’t Look Up

    Aaron Sorkin – Being the Ricardos

    BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

    Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog (WINNER)

    Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Lost Daughter

    Siân Heder – CODA

    Tony Kushner – West Side Story

    Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Roth – Dune

    BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

    Ari Wegner – The Power of the Dog (WINNER)

    Bruno Delbonnel – The Tragedy of Macbeth

    Greig Fraser – Dune

    Janusz Kaminski – West Side Story

    Dan Laustsen – Nightmare Alley

    Haris Zambarloukos – Belfast

    BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

    Patrice Vermette, Zsuzsanna Sipos – Dune (WINNER)

    Jim Clay, Claire Nia Richards – Belfast

    Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau – Nightmare Alley

    Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo – The French Dispatch

    Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo – West Side Story

    BEST EDITING

    Sarah Broshar and Michael Kahn – West Side Story (WINNER)

    Úna Ní Dhonghaíle – Belfast

    Andy Jurgensen – Licorice Pizza

    Peter Sciberras – The Power of the Dog

    Joe Walker – Dune

    BEST COSTUME DESIGN

    Jenny Beavan – Cruella (WINNER)

    Luis Sequeira – Nightmare Alley

    Paul Tazewell – West Side Story

    Jacqueline West, Robert Morgan – Dune

    Janty Yates – House of Gucci

    BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP

    The Eyes of Tammy Faye (WINNER) Cruella

    Dune

    House of Gucci

    Nightmare Alley

    BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

    Dune (WINNER)

    The Matrix Resurrections

    Nightmare Alley

    No Time to Die

    Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

    BEST COMEDY

    Licorice Pizza (WINNER) Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar

    Don’t Look Up

    Free Guy

    The French Dispatch

    BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

    The Mitchells vs. the Machines (WINNER) Encanto

    Flee

    Luca

    Raya and the Last Dragon

    BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

    Drive My Car (WINNER)

    A Hero

    Flee

    The Hand of God

    The Worst Person in the World

    BEST SONG

    “No Time to Die” – No Time to Die (WINNER)

    “Be Alive” – King Richard

    “Dos Oruguitas” – Encanto

    “Guns Go Bang” – The Harder They Fall

    “Just Look Up” – Don’t Look Up

    BEST SCORE

    Hans Zimmer – Dune (WINNER)

    Nicholas Britell – Don’t Look Up

    Jonny Greenwood – The Power of the Dog

    Jonny Greenwood – Spencer

    Nathan Johnson – Nightmare Alley

     

    TELEVISION

    BEST DRAMA SERIES

    Succession (HBO) (WINNER)

    Evil (Paramount+)

    For All Mankind (Apple TV+)

    The Good Fight (Paramount+)

    Pose (FX)

    Squid Game (Netflix)

    This Is Us (NBC)

    Yellowjackets (Showtime)

    BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

    Lee Jung-jae – Squid Game (Netflix) (WINNER)

    Sterling K. Brown – This Is Us (NBC)

    Mike Colter – Evil (Paramount+)

    Brian Cox – Succession (HBO)

    Billy Porter – Pose (FX)

    Jeremy Strong – Succession (HBO)

    BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

    Melanie Lynskey – Yellowjackets (Showtime) (WINNER)

    Uzo Aduba – In Treatment (HBO)

    Chiara Aurelia – Cruel Summer (Freeform)

    Christine Baranski – The Good Fight (Paramount+)

    Katja Herbers – Evil (Paramount+)

    MJ Rodriguez – Pose (FX)

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

    Kieran Culkin – Succession (HBO) (WINNER)

    Nicholas Braun – Succession (HBO)

    Billy Crudup – The Morning Show (Apple TV+)

    Justin Hartley – This Is Us (NBC)

    Matthew Macfadyen – Succession (HBO)

    Mandy Patinkin – The Good Fight (Paramount+)

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

    Sarah Snook – Succession (HBO) (WINNER)

    Andrea Martin – Evil (Paramount+)

    Audra McDonald – The Good Fight (Paramount+)

    Christine Lahti – Evil (Paramount+)

    J. Smith-Cameron – Succession (HBO)

    Susan Kelechi Watson – This Is Us (NBC)

    BEST COMEDY SERIES

    Ted Lasso (Apple TV+) (WINNER)

    The Great (Hulu)

    Hacks (HBO Max)

    Insecure (HBO)

    Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

    The Other Two (HBO Max)

    Reservation Dogs (FX on Hulu)

    What We Do in the Shadows (FX)

    BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

    Jason Sudeikis – Ted Lasso (Apple TV+) (WINNER)

    Iain Armitage – Young Sheldon (CBS)

    Nicholas Hoult – The Great (Hulu)

    Steve Martin – Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

    Kayvan Novak – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)

    Martin Short – Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

    BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES

    Jean Smart – Hacks (HBO Max) (WINNER)

    Elle Fanning – The Great (Hulu)

    Renée Elise Goldsberry – Girls5eva (Peacock)

    Selena Gomez – Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

    Sandra Oh – The Chair (Netflix)

    Issa Rae – Insecure (HBO)

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

    Brett Goldstein – Ted Lasso (Apple TV+) (WINNER)

    Ncuti Gatwa – Sex Education (Netflix)

    Harvey Guillén – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)

    Brandon Scott Jones – Ghosts (CBS)

    Ray Romano – Made for Love (HBO Max)

    Bowen Yang – Saturday Night Live (NBC)

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES

    Hannah Waddingham – Ted Lasso (Apple TV+) (WINNER)

    Hannah Einbinder – Hacks (HBO Max)

    Kristin Chenoweth – Schmigadoon! (Apple TV+)

    Molly Shannon – The Other Two (HBO Max)

    Cecily Strong – Saturday Night Live (NBC)

    Josie Totah – Saved By the Bell (Peacock)

    BEST LIMITED SERIES

    Mare of Easttown (HBO) (WINNER)

    Dopesick (Hulu)

    Dr. Death (Peacock)

    It’s a Sin (HBO Max)

    Maid (Netflix)

    Midnight Mass (Netflix)

    The Underground Railroad (Amazon Prime Video)

    WandaVision (Disney+)

    BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

    Oslo (HBO) (WINNER)

    Come From Away (Apple TV+)

    List of a Lifetime (Lifetime)

    The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (Amazon Prime Video)

    Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia (Lifetime)

    Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas (The Roku Channel)

    BEST ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

    Michael Keaton – Dopesick (Hulu) (WINNER)

    Olly Alexander – It’s a Sin (HBO Max)

    Paul Bettany – WandaVision (Disney+)

    William Jackson Harper – Love Life (HBO Max)

    Joshua Jackson – Dr. Death (Peacock)

    Hamish Linklater – Midnight Mass (Netflix)

    BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

    Kate Winslet – Mare of Easttown (HBO) (WINNER)

    Danielle Brooks – Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia (Lifetime)

    Cynthia Erivo – Genius: Aretha (National Geographic)

    Thuso Mbedu – The Underground Railroad (Amazon Prime Video)

    Elizabeth Olsen – WandaVision (Disney+)

    Margaret Qualley – Maid (Netflix)

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

    Murray Bartlett – The White Lotus (HBO) (WINNER)

    Zach Gilford – Midnight Mass (Netflix)

    William Jackson Harper – The Underground Railroad (Amazon Prime Video)

    Evan Peters – Mare of Easttown (HBO)

    Christian Slater – Dr. Death (Peacock)

    Courtney B. Vance – Genius: Aretha (National Geographic)

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

    Jennifer Coolidge – The White Lotus (HBO) (WINNER)

    Kaitlyn Dever – Dopesick (Hulu)

    Kathryn Hahn – WandaVision (Disney+)

    Melissa McCarthy – Nine Perfect Strangers (Hulu)

    Julianne Nicholson – Mare of Easttown (HBO)

    Jean Smart – Mare of Easttown (HBO)

    BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE SERIES

    Squid Game (Netflix) (WINNER)

    Acapulco (Apple TV+)

    Call My Agent! (Netflix)

    Lupin (Netflix)

    Money Heist (Netflix)

    Narcos: Mexico (Netflix)

    BEST ANIMATED SERIES

    What If…? (Disney+) (WINNER)

    Big Mouth (Netflix)

    Bluey (Disney+)

    Bob’s Burgers (Fox)

    The Great North (Fox)

    Q-Force (Netflix)

    BEST TALK SHOW

    Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO) (WINNER)

    The Amber Ruffin Show (Peacock)

    Desus & Mero (Showtime)

    The Kelly Clarkson Show (NBC)

    Late Night With Seth Meyers (NBC)

    Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen (Bravo)

    BEST COMEDY SPECIAL

    Bo Burnham: Inside (Netflix) (WINNER)

    Good Timing With Jo Firestone (Peacock)

    James Acaster: Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 (Vimeo)

    Joyelle Nicole Johnson: Love Joy (Peacock)

    Nate Bargatze: The Greatest Average American (Netflix)

    Trixie Mattel: One Night Only (YouTube)

    Source: The Hollywood Reporter