It’s the middle of October, do you know where your Academy Award frontrunner for Best Picture is?

Newsflash: no one really cares.

The aftermath of the deluge of sexual misconduct and rape accusations against Harvey Weinstein is all Hollywood is talking about these days.  Speaking to a well-placed Academy member this afternoon, they could not remember the last time so few members were aware of movies in the race or that they were “supposed” to see (and last fall featured the most consequential election in modern times). 

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 [Updated Feb. 4]

Winner Prediction:
1. Jordan Peele, “Get Out”
2. Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird”
3. Martin McDonagh, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
4. Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor, “The Shape of Water”
5. Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjani, “The Big Sick”

Current predictions:

Best Picture
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Director
Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay
Editing
Cinematography
Production Design
Original Score
Best Song
Costumes
Sound Mixing
Sound Editing
Documentary
Foreign Language Film
Animated Feature Film
Makeup and Hairstyling
Visual Effects

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TELLURIDE – A little less than three weeks from the publication of this review John Lithgow is expected to win an Emmy for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the Netflix series “The Crown.” Earlier this year Brian Cox earned positive notices for his own interpretation of the legendary British Prime Minister in the appropriately titled “Churchill.” In fact, Churchill appears in some form or another a few times a year and talents such as Brendan Gleeson, Albert Finney, Bob Hoskins, John Houseman and Richard Burton have tried to capture the once in a lifetime charisma of this historical figure on the big or small screen.

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One thing that non-Cannesgoers might not realize about this crazy festival is that underlying the stew of emotions served up by the programming, the one constant is guilt: every moment not spent either watching a film or writing about a film comes freighted with a low-level background hum of remorse, with a side order of vertiginous FOMO. But this year I’ve tried to come to terms with my inability to bilocate, and to explore just a few of the other experiences the festival has to offer.

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