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2020 I have now seen all of the nominated performances by BAFTA and the Oscars for the 2020 awards with the exception of Andra Day in The United States vs. Billie Holiday. Sound of Metal is regarded as a 2019 release and Judas and the Black Messiah as a 2021 release by the imdb so they are not included on my lists. Here are my choices of the 64 films I've seen from 2020 for ... Best Actor 1. ANTHONY HOPKINS (Anthony), The Father 2. CHADWICK BOSEMAN (Levee Green), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 3. BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH (Greville Wynne), The Courier 4. COLIN FIRTH (Sam), Supernova 5. GARY OLDMAN (Herman Mankiewicz), Mank 6. TOM HANKS (Commander Ernest Krause), Greyhound Best Actress 1. VIOLA DAVIS (Ma Rainey), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 2. CAREY MULLIGAN (Cassandra ‘Cassie’ Thomas), Promising Young Woman 3. MARIA BAKALOVA (Tutar Sagdiyev), Borat Subsequent Moviefilm 4. FRANCES MCDORMAND (Fern), Nomadland 5. OLIVIA COLEMAN (Anne), The Father 6. VANESSA KIRBY (Martha Weiss), Pieces of a Woman 7. MERYL STREEP (Dee Dee Allen), The Prom 8. SOPHIA LOREN (Madame Rosa), The Life Ahead Best Supporting Actor 1. COLEMAN DOMINGO (Cutler), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 2. ARLISS HOWARD (Louis B. Mayer), Mank 3. TOM BURKE (Orson Welles), Mank 4. MAGNUS MILLANG (Nikolaj), Another Round 5. MARK RYLANCE (William Kunstler), The Trial of the Chicago 7 6. MICHAEL POTTS (‘Slow Drag’), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 7. SAM RILEY (Jack Favell), Rebecca 8. ROB MORGAN (Isaac Jefferson), The Photograph 9. GLYNN TURMAN (Toledo), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 10. DAVID THEWLIS (Father), I’m Thinking of Ending Things Runner Up: MERAB NINIDZE (Oleg Penkovsky), The Courier Best Supporting Actress 1. ELLEN BURSTYN (Elizabeth Weiss), Pieces of a Woman 2. CONNIE BRITTON (Dean Elizabeth Walker), Promising Young Woman Juvenile IBRAHIMA GUEYE (Mohamed/“Momo”), The Life Ahead

2020 I have now seen all the film nominated for the Oscar and BAFTA Best Picture Award. Sound of Metal is regarded as a 2019 release by the imdb. Judas and the Black Messiah is regarded as a 2021 release. Lots of the 2020 films in competition for these theatrical film awards are from Netflix and Amazon. Normal theatrical release criteria has been loosened due to the pandemic. I'm doing the same. Even so, the films were hardly great. My top films of 2020 (64 seen): 1. The Trial of the Chicago 7 2. The Father 3. David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet 4. Greyhound 5. Promising Young Woman 6. The Dissident 7. Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story 8. The Courier 9. On the Record 10. Nomadland Runner Ups: Onward

Wednesday, March 24/25 Greenstreet and Lorre 1:15 a.m. Passage to Marseille (1944). With Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains.

Tuesday, March 23 midnight. Foxes (1980). With Jodie Foster.

2019 Pinocchio (2019) Matteo Garrone, Italy Nominated for Best Make Up in this year’s Oscar and BAFTA Awards. Not bad at all. Robert Benigni, who can often give a cloying performance was good as Geppetto. The two who played Cat and Fox were very good. But Pinocchio was wooden.

Monday, March 22/23 Doris Day SOTM 5:30 a.m. Every Girl’s Dream (1966). Short subject featuring Doris Day.

Sunday, March 21 3:30 p.m. The Caine Mutiny (1954). Someone stole his election … er, I mean strawberries.

Saturday, March 20/21 4 a.m. Late Spring (1949). Yasujiro Ozu film with Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara

Friday, March 19/20 8:30 a.m. Blondes at Work (1938). Torchy Blaine. 3:45 a.m. Guru the Mad Monk (1970). This sounds interesting … A deranged 15th Century prison colony chaplain exploits his power to get money for his church including murder and grave robbing committed by his vampire mistress and one-eyed hunchback assistant. Moe and Larry above? Or Woody Tobias, Jr.? 5 a.m. Shake Hands With Danger (1970). Fun with construction site accidents.

He lived in Canada for many years. This from the imdb .. Moved from Littleton, Colorado to Canada, because he felt it would be safer to live there. Two years after moving, he saw the news coverage on Columbine, and recognized some of the kids fleeing the school. from wikipedia In 2000, he was living in Marmora, Ontario, Canada.[19] Ebden, Theresa (August 25, 2000). "An actor in search of character detail". The Globe and Mail.

Thursday, March 18 5:30 p.m. Ice Station Zebra (1968). Good cast in this cold war thriller.

Wednesday, March 17 Here we go again. St. Patrick’s day. But no St. David’s day, Robbie Burns day or even Canada day for TCM’s subscribers north of the border! Well, it figures because as Orson Welles said, St. Patrick’s Day as we know it was invented by the Americans. 12:30 a.m. Odd Man Out (1947). Brilliant sound track (not the music) by one of the best, Harry Miller.

The winner of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival Best Foreign Film Award was … Suicide Room: Hater (2020) Jan Komasa, Poland

Tuesday, March 16/17 2:15 a.m. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). "Thanks for the lovely evening."

Monday, March 15 Doris Day SOTM 10:15 p.m. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). Well, que sera.

Sunday, March 14/15 4:15 a.m. Il Bidone (1955). Broderick Crawford and Richard Basehart star in this Federico Fellini film.

Saturday, March 13 4 p.m. Inherit the Wind (1960). It seems there are still a lot of people in America who do not believe in evolution. Tell that to the covid-19 variants.

1. Terence Fisher, Horror of Dracula (1958) 2. Richard Fleischer, The Narrow Margin (1952) 3, Milos Forman, Amadeus (1984) 4, Neil Jordan, The Crying Game (1992) 5. Anthony Mann, Winchester '73 (1950) 6. Otto Preminger, Laura (1944) 7. Irving Rapper, The Corn Is Green (1945) 8. Mark Robson, Bright Victory (1951) 9.Frank Tashlin, The Geisha Boy (1958) 10. Robert Wise, The Sand Pebbles (1966)

A friend of mine dubbed Nomadland the Easy Rider for Seniors.

Friday, March 12 midnight. Citizen Kane (1941). George Coulouris (above) taking charge of the young Charles Foster Kane. Welles himself had a guardian take charge of him at a similar age. His name was Bernstein. Though the Coulouris character is named Thatcher in Kane, Welles gave the Bernstein name to the character played by Everett Sloane.

Thursday, March 11/12 Letterboxed reframed 2:30 a.m. Sinbad the Sailor (1947). With Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Maureen O’Hara.

Wednesday, March 10 1:45 p.m. Gabriel Over the White House (1932). “A crooked President reforms mysteriously.” Only in the movies.

I've now seen all of the shortlisted foreign films for this year's BAFTA awards many of which were actually released in 2019 so they are not included in my 2020 list. I have to say that of the 9 films that I have seen from 2020 I have not been blown away by any. My top FF films of 2020 of the 9 that I have seen are …. 1. The Life Ahead (2020) Edoardo Ponti, Italy 2. Dear Comrades (2020) Andrey Konchalovskiy, Russia 3. Minari (2020) Lee Isaac Chung, South Korea 4. The Mole Agent (2020) Maite Alberdi, Chile 5. Another Round (2020) Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark 6. Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020) Jasmila Zbanic, Bosnia and Herzegovina 7. New Order (2020) Michel Franco, Mexico and I’ve also seen … The Truffle Hunters (2020) Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw, Italy Beginning (2020) Dea Kutumbegashvili, Georgia

Tuesday, March 9/10 4:30 a.m. Guns of Diablo (1964). With Charles Bronson and Kurt Russell.

David Fincher's father's story of Mank is full of fabrications. For anyone interested in the real back-story of Kane I would recommend this article ... https://www.wellesnet.com/mank-welles-mcbride/