Jeff Nichols’ Loving (2016)

[FilmGuy619 Joined: Jan 13th, 2013 Topics: 119 Posts: 1019 View Predictions]

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So the movie Loving just got picked up by Focus Features and will likely be a factor in the awards race. Loving is based on a true story about a real-life couple named Mildred and Richard Loving, played by Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton, who were sentenced to prison in 1958 because of their interracial marriage. 

Michael Shannon also co-stars and Jeff Nichols (Mud, Take Shelter) is directing and writing. 

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[Damiansport1 Joined: Dec 2nd, 2014 Topics: 13 Posts: 433 View Predictions]

#216725

Agree. I got “Loving” with 7 nomination on my early 2017 oscar predictions
Best Picture, Best Director, Shannon, Negga, screengplay included

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[CanadianFan Joined: Jul 23rd, 2012 Topics: 42 Posts: 4091 View Predictions]

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Wait, Jeff Nichols is releasing two films he wrote and directed in 2016? 

I expect the critics to go hard for one of them. 

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[babypook Joined: Nov 4th, 2010 Topics: 143 Posts: 17022 View Predictions]

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I’m IN.

O man…if this were 1958 I’d be so in jail, and twice.

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[Atypical Joined: Dec 1st, 2011 Topics: 355 Posts: 21745 View Predictions]

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Watch “The Loving Story” on HBO as a primer to this. So looking forward to this story being told on the big screen, especially in this current racialized climate.

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[seabel Joined: Nov 21st, 2012 Topics: 70 Posts: 2209 View Predictions]

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Really great news.

Between this, The Birth of a Nation and Fences, we’ll see a lot of black actors-actresses getting recognition next year. Focus knows they ain’t fooling around. Too bad the characters are sterotyped in terms of fighting their skin color in their plots, but… what can we do? That’s up to the producers. We’re only audiences-predictors.

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