Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Sabin wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 12:32 pm Is it possible that a film can win two awards?

IIRC, if the jury wants to do that, they would have to ask permission from the head of the festival and make their case why and that person will decide on it.

Winners:

Palme d'Or: Anatomy of a Fall
Grand Prix: The Zone of Interest
Jury Prize: Fallen Leaves
Best Actor: Koji Yakusho, Perfect Days
Best Actress: Merve Dizdar, About Dry Grasses
Best Director: Tràn Anh Hùng, The Pot-Au-Feu
Best Screenplay: Monster

Sabin wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 12:32 pm Is it possible that a film can win two awards? Or are they giving Sandra Huller and Justine Triet a joined award for the Palme?

I think the Palme winner can't get an additional award, but acting + screenplay, for instance, is possible.

Is it possible that a film can win two awards? Or are they giving Sandra Huller and Justine Triet a joined award for the Palme?

So Loach, Haynes, Anderson, and Rorwacher go home empty handed.

Further: apparently authentic list of people called back to Cannes for today's ceremony:

Hirokazu Kore-eda
Jonathan Glazer
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Wim Wenders
Tran Anh Hung
Justine Triet
Aki Kaurismaki
Sandra Huller

Floating-around buzz (which is often accurate) says Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses has won "a big prize" (though maybe not the Palme), and Ken Loach has departed, so likely nothing for him.

Cannot imagine anything more boring than another dreary-sounding Ken Loach joint winning a major prize, but he's won that particular prize three times already, so it wouldn't surprise me. And he's been crowing about how it would be his final film (although of course now he's been backtracking in press today) for awhile, so there may be a desire to reward him one last time.

Edit: Even though it got largely negative reviews, Club Zero is produced by Philippe Bober, who has produced Ostlund's films for the past decade, so I would expect an award for it. Also Jessica Hausner is reportedly still in town.

Here are my Cannes predictions. Hopefully, I’ll get more than one right this year.

Palme D’Or: La Chimera by Alice Rohrwacher
Grand Prix: About Dry Grasses by Nuri Birge Ceylan
Best Director: Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest
Best Actor: Koji Yakusho, Perfect Days
Best Actress: Sandra Huller, Anatomy of a Fall
Best Screenplay: Yuji Sakamoto, Monster
Jury Prize: The Old Oak by Ken Loach

Predictions...
Palme: The Pot-au-Feu
Grande Prix: The Zone of Interest
Jury Prize: Fallen Leaves and Monster
Actor: Koji Yashuko, Perfect Days
Actress: Sandra Huller, Anatomy of a Fall
Director: Jessica Hausner, Club Zero
Screenplay: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, About Dry Grasses

The Variety article is less authoritative, since it was published Monday (my first clue was when he mentioned May December not yet having screened).

I'm actually surprised both have Haynes' film so far up on the list; my impression had been that people were mostly unenthusiastic.

I think the biggest handicap Anatomy of Fall might have as far as the Palme is a desire to honor Huller as best actress.

I do agree Anatomy and Zone of Interest seem to be the critical/popular favorites, but we've seen many times that Cannes juries can be deaf to such consensus.

Canne Odds from Indiewire and Variety. Both have Anatomy of a Fall at no.1 with The Zone of Interest right behind.

https://www.indiewire.com/awards/predic ... 234864878/
https://variety.com/2023/film/awards/ca ... 235621230/

Could be a Palme contender?
The Pot-au-Feu, the latest Trần Anh Hùng

https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/mov ... 234867465/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie ... 235497317/
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/m ... n-to-drool
https://variety.com/2023/film/festivals ... 235623784/

Victor Erice and Lisandro Alonso have both made statements about Thierry Fremaux somewhat dishonestly screwing their films out of competition spots. Erice, who hasn't made a film in over thirty years, didn't attend the premiere, and had been offered competition spots at other festivals but held off while waiting to hear back from Cannes and didn't find out it wouldn't be in competition until the press conference announcing the lineups. Maybe not coincidentally, both films are in Spanish, and outside of big names like Almodovar, Cannes has not been super-friendly to Spanish-language films over the past several years.

May/December has been picked up by Netflix; Anatomy of a Fall has been picked up by NEON.

Edit: Netflix has May/December for US and Canada only.

Sabin wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 3:49 pm I already did a May December thread.

Apologies. I didn't see it there near the bottom.