With 3 prestige films scheduled for next year, 2026 could easily be a career best year for Caitríona Balfe.

THIS is how you move on the film scene after your decade-long hit TV show wraps.

She continues to show epic range, also Oscar-calibre work in Ford v Ferrari and Belfast.

What in the Baby Caitríona ?!?

Outlander casting people still cooking with fire after all these years, I see.

Caitríona Balfe back in studio film mode at last, with reliably epic red carpet game.

I hope she will book something great and auteur-y soon.

Now that her decade-long TV gig is done, she deserves a full-time film career with the best collaborators.

8 actors who lost tonight, could be back in the Oscar race next season.

Timothee Chalamet, Ralph Fiennes, Sebastian Stan, Cynthia Erivo, Colman Domingo, Jeremy Strong, Ariana Grande, Demi Moore.

Wouldn't THAT be quite the next chapter for them all ?

P.S. March will be quiet. The buzziest SXSW world premieres (Another Simple Favor, Holland) will probably end up on the TV side just like Bridget Jones. Tribeca 2024 Best Feature winner, Audrey's Children, looks promising but may struggle getting industry support. We'll see.

Updates

- Dylan O'Brien & Diego Luna are now in supporting.
- TIFF (The Friend, The Life of Chuck, On Swift Horses)
- Berlinale (Mickey 17, Blue Moon, Dreams)
- Long Day's Journey Into Night !
- Egregiously enough the acclaimed Bridget Jones pic will be a TV award contender.

IF THE THE OSCARS WERE TODAY (February)

Since this Oscar season is chop, I am now focusing on the 2025 slate with a post on the last day of every month (January below).

I will only add performances that had been already reviewed, could be interesting to see these in December.

Since this Oscar season is chop, I will just focus on the 2025 slate with a post on the last day of every month, starting today.

IF THE THE OSCARS WERE TODAY.

I will only add performances that had been already reviewed, it could be interesting to see these a year from now.

P.S. As for new adaptations : I would love to see Jodie Comer - who expressed a desire to do a musical - put her epic accent talents to work in My Fair Lady (directed by Marianne Elliott from Emma Thompson's 2008 script). Also a Steven Spielberg + Lady Gaga joint slay with Hello, Dolly.

At the moment probably every major film studio is feverishly looking for (preferably yet unadapted) stage musicals to turn into BO smash hits and I really hope some variation of these, WILL happen.

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Claire : I was born in 1918.
New Jenny and Fam :

It is quite interesting how the two wildly different film musicals of 2024, are getting the same critics consensus.

I am curious to see where both will land this Oscar season.

#WickedMovie will be helped by Box Office, #EmiliaPérez will be helped by the Cannes/Auteur prestige.

If The Oscars Were Today

#1-5 - Timothee Chalamet & Ariana Grande entered the chat ... could Jonathan Bailey surprise?

#6-12 - The "need SAG/Bafta love to secure a slot in the Oscar top5" crowd.

#13-20 - Watch out for LRD (great early word) & Kate Winslet's surprise campaign.

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