Cory Finley, a talented filmmaker, has directed three films so far: "Thoroughbreds" (2017), "Bad Education” (2020), and "Landscape with Invisible Hand.”
Bassim Tariq was the first one in the chair. The "Mogul Mowgli" director spent two years building out the Mahershala Ali vehicle before exiting in 2022, and he's now letting the air out on this one.
Claire Danes, Rachel McAdams, Dermot Mulroney, Craig T. Nelson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson, Tyrone Giordano, Elizabeth Reaser, Paul Schneider, and Brian White will all be back.
I was curious how Cristian Mungiu's "Fjord" would be received this fall. The Palme d'Or winner has become a culture-war flashpoint, and critics are more split on it than you might expect.
This year’s 12th edition of the Scary Movies festival at Film at Lincoln Center premiered Ari Aster’s extended version of “Midsommar” this past Saturday.
FRONTRUNNERS:
1917 (Universal)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Sony)
The Irishman (Netflix)
Marriage Story (Netflix)
The Two Popes (Netflix)
The Farewell (A24)
Parasite (Neon)
Joker (Warner Bros.)
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Sony)
Jojo Rabbit (Fox Searchlight)
Little Women (Sony)
FRONTRUNNERS
1) Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)
2) Adam Driver (Marriage Story)
3) Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes)
4) Leonardo DiCaprio (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood)
5) Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory)
1) Renee Zellweger (Judy)
2) Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story)
3) Charlize Theron (Bombshell)
4) Saoirse Ronan (Little Women)
5) Cynthia Erivo (Harriet)
1) Brad Pitt (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood)
2) Joe Pesci (The Irishman)
3) Tom Hanks (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood)
4) Al Pacino (The Irishman)
5) Anthony Hopkins (The Two Popes)
1) Laura Dern (Marriage Story)
2) Kathy Bates (Richard Jewell)
3) Margot Robbie (Bombshell)
4) Scarlett Johansson (Jojo Rabbit)
5) Florence Pugh (Little Women)
1) Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood)
2) Sam Mendes (1917)
3) Todd Phillips (Joker)
4) Martin Scorsese (The Irishman)
5) Bong Joon Ho (Parasite)
1) The Irishman (Steve Zaillian)
2) Little Women (Greta Gerwig & Sarah Polley)
3) Joker (Todd Phillips & Scott Silver)
4) Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi)
5) Two Popes (Anthony McCarten)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
Parasite (Bong Joon-ho & Jin Won Han)
1917 (Sam Mendes & Krysty Wilson-Cairns)
Knives Out (Rian Johnson)
1) Roger Deakins (“1917”)
2) Robert Richardson (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”)
3) Rodrigo Prieto (“The Irishman”)
4) Lawrence Sher (“Joker”)
5) Jarin Blaschke (“The Lighthouse”)
1) South Korea – Parasite
2) Spain – Pain and Glory
3) France – Les Misérables
4) Poland — Corpus Christi
5) North Macedonia — Honeyland
The short version: "Woman Unknown" was a compromise. The jury deadlocked over "Possible Love" and "NAZA," not able to com to terms, fell back on their #3, May el-Toukhy's film.