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Post by Brother Fease on Oct 11, 2022 22:56:29 GMT
This much anticipated drama is going to be released on December 2nd, just in time for the start of awards season. Sarah Polley writes and directs her fourth featured film. Her first film, Away From Her, scored two Oscar nominations for Best Actress (Julie Christie) and Adapted Screenplay (Polley) back in 2008. Based on the 2018 novel by Miriam Toews, Women Talking revolves around 8 women from an isolated religious cult trying to reconcile with faith and reality. Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand headline the ensemble cast.
The reception so far has been quite good. It was a gigantic hit at both the Telluride Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival, winning the Silver Medallion and runner-up status for the People's Choice award. 7.7/10 rating per IMDB. 87% approval from Rotten Tomatoes.
What nominations do you think this will get? Do you think the actresses are going to go lead or supporting here? I know a couple people here have already seen it. I hear some people (not seen, no judgment from me) have said the movie gets too talky at times.
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Post by stephen on Oct 11, 2022 23:04:05 GMT
Picture, Supporting Actor (Whishaw), Supporting Actress (Foy and Buckley), Adapted Screenplay (where I have it pegged as the frontrunner), and a few token techs like Costume Design or Editing. Polley could get into Director but I feel there's a lot of criticism about the color grading that I feel like it might hamper her somewhat among the branch, but I have her in the top five at the moment.
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Post by JangoB on Oct 11, 2022 23:20:24 GMT
Picture, Director, Supporting Actress (Foy & Buckley), Supporting Actor & Adapted Screenplay. Maybe Score too - I read some nice things about it.
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Post by Brother Fease on Oct 11, 2022 23:25:42 GMT
Picture, Supporting Actor (Whishaw), Supporting Actress (Foy and Buckley), Adapted Screenplay (where I have it pegged as the frontrunner), and a few token techs like Costume Design or Editing. Polley could get into Director but I feel there's a lot of criticism about the color grading that I feel like it might hamper her somewhat among the branch, but I have her in the top five at the moment. Thank you for pointing that out. Do you think this movie maybe too "artsy" to win Best Picture? |
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Post by stephen on Oct 11, 2022 23:29:44 GMT
Picture, Supporting Actor (Whishaw), Supporting Actress (Foy and Buckley), Adapted Screenplay (where I have it pegged as the frontrunner), and a few token techs like Costume Design or Editing. Polley could get into Director but I feel there's a lot of criticism about the color grading that I feel like it might hamper her somewhat among the branch, but I have her in the top five at the moment. Thank you for pointing that out. Do you think this movie maybe too "artsy" to win Best Picture? I don't think it's too artsy at all to win Best Picture, but the color grading issue could be too distracting for some craftspeople to nominate it in key categories like Cinematography. And in the last five years, we've had two winners not get corresponding Best Director nominations, and if Polley is our Adapted Screenplay frontrunner, voters may find that she's getting her laurels there and deign to recognize other people elsewhere for Director, and I don't think that affects its positioning in Best Picture much. It's the socially conscious choice of the year, against the career capstone of Spielberg's semi-autobiography, McDonagh's provoking tragicomedy, the effects bonanzas of Avatar and Maverick, and the buckwild genre-bending Everything Everywhere All At Once. |
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Oct 12, 2022 0:34:51 GMT
Picture
Screenplay
Supporting Actress
Maybe a random tech or 2
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