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And even for a lot of people that made her performance, the movie is a bit grating.

Interestingly enough, when I was at Middleburg a couple weeks ago, and I was... sitting down with Jazz Tankay and Ann Thompson, both of them singled out Emily Blunt for Disclosure Day as one to keep an eye on, which I think is very interesting and just shows really, really, you know, what is, how open this category is outside of Julianne Moore.

this one is going to probably, I feel like this one is going to deliver some real surprises on Oscar nomination.

Yeah, what's really interesting is when you take things that I think maybe some people thought would be more sure things, like, for example, say like, I don't know, Cynthia Erivo in Prima Facie.

And they got out of there.

I Play Rocky was sort of a similar thing for like a, screening that night which was very late but I got to speak with Brad Bird who was very enthusiastic and I got to speak with Tony Gilroy and Jack O'Connell but the main star of the weekend was La Bola Negra Zone who not only was doing a ton of interviews and did a cocktail hour and did a Q&A but did a live performance of the original song from La Bola Negra and did a second song where he serenaded uh my table uh where Ann Thompson and Katie Rich and everybody was there and if you ask Ann Thompson we and if you ask everybody involved at that table we saw the light And we saw, we saw that the, the tractor being that is what his, is his secret weapon.

It was what the hobbies have talked about where it's like the, he has this, this, his eyes and his, and his energy is, is what draws us in as an audience and he was on full display there um so and then there was a massive concert for daniel pemberton who did the score for project calmerian inc and masters in the universe and there wasn't a dry eye in the house when it came to two numbers to the project calmeria numbers and to uh the spider-man into the spider-verse uh across the spider-verse one of those two um and uh it was a lot of fun Kind of crazy that it all happened in three days.

It's a very different vibe than New York and Telluride and all the other places because it's literally at this resort and it's very different than even Mill Valley where it has more traditional theaters.

And to defend...

Touch of Evil is IndieWire's Ann Thompson, who put Touch of Evil on her top 10 sight and sound ballot.

Her official ballot, Josh.

She has a real ballot, unlike us, who pretend.

And to defend...

Touch of Evil is IndieWire's Ann Thompson, who put Touch of Evil on her top 10 sight and sound ballot.

Her official ballot, Josh.

She has a real ballot, unlike us, who pretend.

This is Oscar Confidential, a series where I sit down with some of the smartest and most admired people in the Oscar blogosphere to talk about their favorite films, their Oscar memories.

Today, I'm joined by none other than Anne Thompson, editor at large at IndieWire, author, co-host of the weekly Screen Talk podcast, and of course, Hollywood film journalism royalty.

Anne, welcome to the show.

You're very kind, happy to be here.