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Monday, August 26, 2013

Best Picture Oscar 2013 - September Predictions

Posted on 8:22 PM by Unknown
I'm at the point with the Best Picture race that I'm starting to think more about what the winners might end up actually being, but probably not that much closer than I was in March.  One must always consider Harvey Weinstein first.  He has a great track record and knows how to groom a winner.  But, he always relies heavily on box-office.  Even a small black and white "silent" movie managed to rake in almost $45M under his supervision.  While Fruitvale Station has passed the $15M mark, I'm doubtful that the quiet indie has what it takes to go the distance, so, as a placeholder, it doesn't any longer make sense (watch me eat my words after it gains a huge audience on VOD).  Rounding out the Field of Nine now, I'm not saying that it won't end up getting nominated, but, I see it as a smaller film that will have to fight its way in.  Kind of how The Master was last year (and lost).  True, it wasn't as accessible of a film and definitely played less to the emotions as Fruitvale, but in a competitive field, it ended up falling short.  

If that will be the case this year for Fruitvale, that will be due in large part to Weinstein's other two contenders.  Lee Daniels' The Butler, for all intents and purposes is a box-office hit.  I have to eat crow over the fact that I said the movie would be a hot mess and Daniels would get no where near the director's race.  While a nod for him isn't exactly in the cards, he made his way into the conversation as an outlier.  However, its MC score is 16 points behind Harvey's BP-winning lowest scorer, Chicago--considerable amount that may or may not be overcome with undisputed commercial legs.  Harvey's December pony August: Osage County will be an entertaining, yet dark and grim family drama if it's anything resembling its theatrical source.  More episodic and less topical than previous winner Ordinary People, but, if it's somehow framed as "optimistic" and given a more epic tone like American Beauty, it may have enough fuel in its tank for a win.  There's always Mandela: The Long Walk Home, though, which may pull the carpet from underneath most of us.  

Moving beyond Weinstein, you have three titans in the industry offering fare which carry with them the most expectations.  
I've been quite bearish on The Wolf of Wall Street as the year has wore on and am waiting to see if my hunch will pan out.  American Hustle strikes me as having more potential, especially for a win.  Recently, The Monuments Men has tried to carefully extract itself from this small, elite group of contenders.  They've gotten star Cate Blanchett, and a collection of major Oscar bloggers to attest to its lack of awards-worthiness.  Smart move, but I don't buy it entirely.  Call me a conspiracy theorist, but is there something subversive going on?  Maybe it will end up being Ocean's 11 Goes to World War II, and that will be it, but for now, I'm calling B.S.  So, it remains to me to be one that could end up winning, or be left out of the race entirely.  Speaking of which ...

Back in May, I switched Monuments from the #1 slot for 20th-Century Fox' The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a debut on the list after reading some internet chatter post CinemaCon citing some impressive footage.  It was knee-jerk, I admit, as I knocked it down fourteen notches two months later.  I have to work on staying the course, because, after the trailer from a few weeks ago has settled in, I'm wondering if there was something to my hunch after all.  And, come NYFF where it will premiere for festival goers, if there isn't anything there, so be it.  Saving Mr. Banks might also be bait-failure, yet its Disney backing makes it a guess worth sticking with.  But, like Mitty, its enjoying a more unassuming profile. 

The two films that will be exploding in accolades shortly, however, are Gravity and 12 Years a Slave.  I imagine these two films will shoot up most of the Oscar blogger's lists in the next few weeks with the onset of the Venice and Toronto film festivals.  I tried tempering my prediction enthusiasm for Gravity, especially with my hunch that Sandra Bullock won't be reentering the race anytime soon (and with her performance all over this film, it's hard to imagine her not getting a nomination if the movie takes off), but it's hard to resist the buzz and anticipation.  And the more astute are bearish on 12 Years a Slave, taking into strong consideration controversial and media-unfriendly director Steve McQueen, complete with his cold, detached directing style.  I've been willfully ignorant of this for the last five months.  It's this year's show pony for Fox Searchlight (barring any unforeseen festival purchases)--a strong studio campaigner after TWC--and its period setting and subject matter give it a gravitas I'm investing a lot of faith in.  The recent positive indicators creeping in are only steeling my resolve.  Do I think it will win too?  Well, not for now.  But, it gets this month's honor of #1 placeholder.  

1 (+4). 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight).  RD: 10/18 (moved up two months).  Dir: Steve McQueen.  Screenplay: McQueen, John Ridley from Solomon Northup's memoir.  Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Giamatti, Paul Dano, Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Sarah Paulson, and Taran Killam.  Editor: Joe Walker.  Composer: Hans Zimmer.  Cinematographer: Sean Bobbitt.  Production Designer: Adam Stockhausen (Moonrise Kingdom).  Producers: Brad Pitt.  Upcoming Festivals: TIFF.
Feinberg, IC

2 (--). Inside Llewyn Davis (CBS).  RD: 12/ 6 limited (12/20 expansion).  Dir: Coen brothers.  Screenplay: Loosely based on folksinger Dave Van Ronk's 2005 memoir The Mayor of MacDougal (finished posthumously by Elijah Wald).  Cast: Oscar Isaac, Garrett Hedlund, Carey Mulligan, Adam Driver, John Goodman, and Justin Timberlake.  Cinematographer: Bruno Delbonnel (Amélie, A Very Long Engagement, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince).  Production Designer: Jess Gonchor (True Grit, Foxcatcher, The Lone Ranger).  Costume Designer: Mary Zophres (True Grit).  Producer: Scott Rudin, Coen brothers.  Upcoming Festivals: Telluride, NYFF. 
ROS

3 (+3). August: Osage County (TWC).  RD: 12/25.  Dir: John Wells.  Adapted Screenplay: Tracy Letts from his play.  Cast: Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Margo Martindale, Chris Cooper, Ewan McGregor, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juliette Lewis, Sam Shepard, Julianne Nicholson, Dermot Mulroney, and Abigail Breslin.  Editor: Stephen Mirrione (Babel, Traffic).  Cinematographer: Adriano Goldman (Jane Eyre, Sin Nombre).  Production Designer: David Gropman (Life of Pi, The Cide House Rules).  Costume Designer: Cindy Evans.  Producers: Argonauts Clooney, Heslov, and Weinstein.  Budget: $25M.  Upcoming Festivals: TIFF.
TFE, Feinberg, IC

4 (+8). Gravity (WB).  RD: 10/4.  Dir: Alfonso Cuarón.  Original Screenplay: Cuarón and brother Jonas.  Editors: Cuarón, Mark Sanger.  Composer: Steven Price.  Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki (Cuarón's longtime collaborator has been nominated five times without a win--twice for movies they've done together--being overlooked two years ago for The Tree of Life).  Production Designer: Andy Nicholson.  Costume Designer: Jany Temine (Skyfall, the Harry Potter franchise since Azkaban).  Upcoming Festivals: Telluride, TIFF, VFF.
TFE, Feinberg, IC

5 (--). Saving Mr. Banks (Walt Disney).  RD: 12/13 limited (12/20 expansion).  Dir: John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side).  Original Screenplay: Kelly Marcel & Sue Smith.  Cast: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Colin Farrell, Annie Rose Buckley.  Cinematographer: John Schwartzman (Seabiscuit).  Production Designer: Michael Corenblith (How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Apollo 13).  Composer: Thomas Newman (eleven times nominated, never won).  Producers: Alison Owen (Elizabeth).  Filmed Fall 2012 in SoCal.  
TFE, ROS, IC

6 (+1). American Hustle (Sony).  RD: 12/13 limited (12/25 expansion).  Dir: David O. Russell.  Original Screenplay: Eric Singer and Russell.  Cast: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence.  Cinematographer: Linus Sandgren (Promised Land).  Production Designer: Judy Becker (O. Russell's last two films, as well as Brokeback Mountain).  Costume Designer: Michael Wilkinson.  Producers: Megan Ellison, Charles Roven (The Dark Knight).
TFE, Feinberg, ROS, IC

7 (-4). The Monuments Men (Sony).  Release Date: 12/18.  Dir: George Clooney.  Adapted Screenplay: Clooney, Grant Heslov from Robert M. Edsel book.  Cast: Clooney, Daniel Craig, Matt Damon, John Goodman, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban. Cinematographer: Phedon Papamichael (The Descendants, The Pursuit of Happyness, Walk the Line, Sideways).  Composer: Alexandre Desplat (Argo, The King's Speech, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Queen).  Production Designer: James D. Bissell (Good Night, and Good Luck., E.T.).  Costume Designer: Louise Frogley (The Ides of March, Traffic).  Producers: Clooney, Heslov.  
ROS, IC

8 (+11). Lee Daniels' The Butler (TWC).  Released.  Dir: Lee Daniels.  "Adapted" Screenplay: Danny Strong from an article written by Wil Haygood.  Cast: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Terrence Howard, and a list of stunt-casting long and dubious enough to give one an elongated pause.  Editor: Joe Klotz (Precious, Rabbit Hole).  Cinematography: Andrew Dunn (The Madness of King George, Precious).  Costume Designer: Ruth E. Carter (Malcolm X, Amistad).  Producers: Daniels, Laura Ziskin (her final film), Cassian Elwes (Dallas Buyers Club, Margin Call, Blue Valentine), and around forty other people (not kidding).  Budget: $25M (filmed Summer 2012).  IMDb: 6.2 (5.3k users).  RT/MC: 73/66.  Box Office: $51.8M+.  
Feinberg, ROS

9 (-8). Fruitvale Station (TWC).  Released.  Director/Screenplay: Ryan Coogler.  Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer (also a coproducer), and Chad Michael Murray.  Costume Designer: Aggie Guerard Rodgers (The Color Purple, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Pee Wee's Big Adventure).  IMDb: 7.6 (174 users).  Pros: TWC, Great festival reviews; appeals to audience's emotions, especially liberals.  Cons: Smaller scale, potentially polarizing.  Producer: Forest Whitaker. IMDb: 7.7 (4.6k users).  RT/MC: 94/85.  Box Office: $15M+.
TFE

10 (+5).  The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (20th Century Fox).  RD: 12/25.  Dir: Ben Stiller.  Cast: Stiller, Kristen Wiig.  Editor: Greg Hayden.  Composer: Theodore Shapiro.  Cinematographer: Stuart Dryburgh (The Piano).  Production Designer: Jeff Mann.  Costume Designer: Sarah Edwards.  Producers: Stiller, Samuel Goldwyn Jr (Master and Commander), John Goldwyn (I'm Not There).  Upcoming Festivals: NYFF.
IC

11 (--). Blue Jasmine (SPC).  Released.  Dir: Woody Allen.  Cinematographer: Javier Aguirresarobe (The Others).  Production Designer: Santo Loquasto (longtime Allen collaborator nominated for three of his films).  Producers: Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum (Midnight in Paris).  IMDb: 7.9 (3.6k users).  RT/MC: 90/77.  Box Office: $14.5M+.  

12 (-2). All Is Lost (Lionsgate).  RD: 10/18.  Dir: J.C. Chandor.  Original Screenplay: Chandor.  Cast: Robert Redford.  Cinematographer: Frank G. DeMarco (Hedwig and the Angry Inch).  Editor: Peter Beaudreau.  Composer: Alex Ebert.  Production Designer: John P. Goldsmith.  Costume Designer: Van Broughton Ramsey.  Precursors: The Old Man and the Sea, Castaway, Life of Pi.  Upcoming Festivals: Telluride, NYFF.
TFE, Feinberg, ROS

13 (+1). The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount).  RD: 11/15.  Dir: Martin Scorsese.  Screenplay: Terence Winter adaptated Jordan Belfort's memoir.  Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew McConaughey, Jonah Hill, Kyle Chandler, Jon Favreau, Jean Dujardin, Rob Reiner, Spike Jonze, Christine Ebersole, Fran Lebowitz, Margot Robbie, and Joanna Lumley.  Editor: Thelma Schoonmaker.  Composer: Howard Shore (Hugo, LOTR).  Cinematographer: Rodrigo Prieto (Brokeback Mountain, Argo, Babel).  Production Designer: Bob Shaw.  Costume Designer: Sandy Powell.  Producers: Scorsese, DiCaprio. Budget: $100M. 
Feinberg, ROS

14 (-6). Nebraska (Paramount).  RD: 11/22 (limited).  Dir: Alexander Payne.  Original Screenplay: Bob Nelson. Cast: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Stacy Keach, Bob Odenkirk.  Editor: Kevin Tent (The Descendants).  Cinematographer: Phedon Papamichael (Walk the Line, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Ides of March, the Descendants, The Monuments Men).  Production Designer: J. Dennis Washington.  Costume Designer: Wendy Chuck.  Producers: Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa (Little Miss Sunshine, Cold Mountain, Little Children, Election).  Upcoming Festivals: Telluride, NYFF. 

15 (-2). Before Midnight (SPC).  Released.  Dir: Richard Linklater.  Screenplay: Linklater, Delpy, Hawke.  Cast: Delpy, Hawke.   Editor: Sandra Adair.  Cinematographer: Lee Daniel.  Composer: Fred Frith.  Production Designer: Florian Reichmanm.   IMDb: 8.4 (16k users).  RT/MC: 98/94.  Box Office: $8M.  
ROS

16 (+13). Blue Is the Warmest Color (Sundance Selects).  RD: 10/25.  Dir: Abdellatif Kechiche.  Upcoming Festivals: Telluride, TIFF, NYFF.  

17 (+6). Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom (TWC).  RD: 11/29 (limited; moved back from 11/27).  Dir: Justin Chadwick.  Screenplay: William Nicholson (Shadowlands, Gladiator, Les Misérables, Elizabeth: The Golden Age).  Cast: Idris Elba, Naomie Harris.  Composer: Alex Heffes (The Last King of Scotland).  Cinematographer: Lol Crawley (Hyde Park on Hudson).  Production Designer: Johnny Breedt (Hotel Rwanda).  Upcoming Festivals: TIFF.

18 (+2). Rush (Universal).  RD: 9/20 (limited with 9/27 expansion).  Dir: Ron Howard.  Original Screenplay: Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen).  Editor: Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill (Apollo 13, etc.).  Cinematographer: Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire).  Production Designer: Mark Digby.  Costume Designer: Julian Day.  Composer: Hans Zimmer.  Producers: Ron Howard, Brian Grazer (Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon), Eric Fellner (Elizabeth, Atonement, Frost/Nixon, Les Misérables), Brian Oliver (Black Swan).  Upcoming Festivals: TIFF.
IC

19 (-1). Captain Phillips (Sony).  RD: 10/11.  Dir: Paul Greengrass.  Screenplay: Billy Ray.  Cast: Tom Hanks.  Editor: Christopher Rouse (The Bourne Ultimatum, United 93).  Cinematographer: Barry Ackroyd (The Hurt Locker, United 93).  Costume Designer: Mark Bridges (The Artist, P.T. Anderson and David O. Russell films).  Producers: Scott Rudin, Michael De Luca (Moneyball, The Social Network), Dana Brunetti (The Social Network).  Upcoming Festivals: NYFF.
TFE, Feinberg, ROS

20 (+6). The Railway Man (N/A).  RD: N/A.  Dir: Jonathan Teplitzky (Burning Man).  Adapted Screenplay: Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson from the novel by Eric Lomax.  Cinematographer: Garry Phillips.  Production Designer: Steven Jones-Evans.  Costume Designer: Lizzy Gardiner (Priscilla, Queen of the Desert).  Composer: David Hirschfelder (Elizabeth, Shine, Australia).  Upcoming Festivals: TIFF.

21 (+17). Her (WB).  RD: 12/18 limited with 1/10 add (pushed back from 11/22).  Dir: Spike Jonze.  An Annapurna production.  Upcoming Festivals: NYFF.  
TFE

22 (+2). The Past (SPC).  RD: 12/20.  Dir: Asghar Farhadi (A Separation).  Screenplay: Farhadi and Massoumeh Lahidji.  Editor: Juliette Welfling (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly).  Cinematographer: Mahmoud Kalari (A Separation).  Production Designer: Claude Lenoir (Three Colours Trilogy).  Budget: $11M (filmed in Paris Fall 2012).  Upcoming Festivals: Telluride, TIFF.

23 (+5). The Counselor (20th Century Fox).  RD: 10/25.  Dir: Ridley Scott.  Original Screenplay: Cormac McCarthy.    Editor: Pietro Scalia (JFK, Good Will Hunting, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down).  Cinematographer: Dariusz Wolski (Sweeney Todd).  Production Designer: Arthur Max (Gladiator, American Gangster).  Costume Designer: Janty Yates (Gladiator).  Composer: Daniel Pemberton.  Producers; Ridley Scott, Nick Wechsler (The Player).  

24 (-3).  Mud (Lionsgate).  Released.  Dir: Jeff Nichols.  Producer: Sarah Green (The Tree of Life).  IMDb: 7.6 (28k users).  RT/MC: 98/76.  Box Office: $21.6M.

25 (-16).  Philomena (TWC).  RD: N/A.  Dir: Stephen Frears.  Adapted Screenplay: Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope from Martin Sixsmith's The Lost Child of Philomena Lee.  Cast: Judi Dench, Coogan, Sean Mahon.  Editor: Valerio Bonelli.  Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan.  Production Designer: Alan MacDonald.  Costume Designer: Consolata Boyle (The Queen).  Producers: Tracey Seaward (The Queen), Coogan.  Upcoming Festivals: TIFF, VFF.  

26 (+5). The Great Gatsby (WB).  Released.  Dir: Baz Luhrman.  Producers: Luhrman, Douglas Wick (Gladiator, Working Girl), Lucy Fisher (Memoirs of a Geisha).  IMDb: 7.5 (74k users).  RT/MC: 49/55.

27 (+5). Dallas Buyers Club (Focus).  RD: 11/1 (moved up from 12/6).  Dir: Jean-Marc Vallée.  Original Screenplay: Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack.  Editors: Martin Pensa and Vallée.  Cinematographer: Yves Bélanger.  Production Designer: John Paino.  Costume Designers: Kurt and Bart.  Upcoming Festivals: TIFF.
TFE

28 (+5). Foxcatcher (SPC; changed from Sony).  RD: 12/20.  Director: Bennett Miller.  Screenplay: E. Max Frye (Something Wild) and Dan Futterman (Capote).  Cinematographer: Greig Fraser (Zero Dark Thirty, Killing Them Softly).  Production Designer: Jess Gonchor (True Grit, Moneyball).  Costume Designer: Kasia Walicka-Maimone (Moonrise Kingdom, Moneyball).  Cast: Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, Channing Tatum, Sienna Miller, Vanessa Redgrave, Anthony Michael Hall, and Tara Subkoff.  Producers: Megan Ellison, Bennett Miller, Anthony Bregman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind).
Feinberg, IC

29 (+13). Labor Day (Paramount).  RD: 12/25 (limited; changed from 12/30).  Dir: Jason Reitman.  Upcoming Festivals: Telluride, TIFF.

30 (+13). Parkland (Open Road).  RD: 10/4.  Dir: Peter Landesman.  Upcoming Festivals: TIFF, VFF.  

31 (-15).  The Book Thief (Fox 2000).  RD: 11/15.  Dir: Brian Percival.  Adapted Screenplay: Michael Petroni from the book by Markus Zusak.  Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Sophie Nelisse.  Editor: John Wilson (Billy Elliot).  Costume Designer: Anna B. Sheppard (Schindler's List, The Pianist).  Filmed in Potsdam and Berlin.

32 (+28). The World's End (Focus).  RD: Released.  Dir: Edgar Wright.  RT/MC: 91/81

33 (-6). Black Nativity (Fox Searchlight).  RD: 11/27.  Dir: Kasi Lemmons.  Producer: William Horberg (Cold Mountain), Celine Rattray (The Kids Are All Right), and Sting's wife!

34 (-12).  Lone Survivor (Universal).  RD: 12/27 (rollout).  Editor, Composer, Cinematographer, and Production Designer have never been nominated before.  Producers: Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind), Barry Spikings (The Deer Hunter).

35 (-18). The Fifth Estate (Walt Disney).  RD: 10/18 (changed from 10/11).  Dir: Bill Condon (Dreamgirls, Gods and Monsters).  Adapted Screenplay: Josh Singer from several sources.  Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Anthony Mackie, and Carice van Houten.  Editor: Virginia Katz (Dreamgirls).  Cinematographer: Tobias A. Schliessler (Dreamgirls).  Production Designer: Mark Tildesley (The Constant Gardener).  Production Designer: Shay Cunliffe (part of the Bourne series).  Composer: Carter Burwell.  Producers: Steve Golin (Babel, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich).  Upcoming Festivals: TIFF.

36 (-11). A Most Wanted Man (Lionsgate).  RD: N/A.  Director: Anton Crobijn.  Adapted Screenplay: Andrew Bovell from a novel by John le Carré.  Editor: Claire Simpson (Platoon, The Constant Gardener, The Reader).  Cinematographer: Benoit Delhomme.  Production Designer: Sebastian T. Krawinkel.  Costume Designer: Nicole Fischnaller.  Composer: Herbert Grönemeyer.  

37 (New).  The Zero Theorem (N/A).  RD: N/A.  Dir: Terry Gilliam.  Upcoming Festivals: VFF.    

38 (New).  About Time (Universal).  RD: 11/1 (limited).  Dir. Richard Curtis.  Upcoming Festivals: NYFF.

39 (New).  Can a Song Save Your Life? (N/A).  RD: N/A.  Dir: John Carney.  Upcoming Festivals: TIFF.

40 (-12). Devil's Knot (N/A).  RD: N/A.  Dir: Atom Egoyan.  Dir: Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter).  Adapted Screenplay: Paul Harris and Scott Derrickson from the book by Mara Leveritt.  Editor: Susan Shipton.  Cinematographer: Paul Sarossy.  Production Designer: Phillip Barker.  Costume Designer: Kari Perkins (Mud).  Composer: Mychael Danna (Life of Pi, Moneyball, Little Miss Sunshine, Capote).  Upcoming Festivals: TIFF.

41 (+22). 47 Ronin (Universal).  RD: 12/25.  Dir: Carl Rinsch.

42 (-5). Grace of Monaco (TWC).  RD: 11/27 (limited).  Dir: Olivier Dahan.

43 (New).  Tracks (N/A).  RD: N/A.  Dir: John Curran. Upcoming Festivals: TIFF, VFF.   

44 (+7). Night Moves (N/A).  RD: N/A.  Dir: Kelly Reichardt.  Upcoming Festivals: TIFF, VFF.  
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