Get up close and personal with the biggest names at one of the season’s best Oscar predictors—including Nicole Kidman, Alfonso Cuarón, Matthew McConaughey, Laura Dern, Damien Chazelle, and the women of The Favourite.
This year’s lineup gave us all plenty to talk about, with a starry array of world premieres, European festival holdovers, and smaller curios that thrilled and enlightened. To capture some of the talent responsible for these films, photographer Justin Bishop roamed the festival all weekend, snapping portraits of some of the biggest movers and shakers at this year’s festival—photographic proof that they made the long journey.
Photograph by Justin Bishop
Marielle Heller, Melissa McCarthy, and Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
In Marielle Heller’s Can You Ever Forgive Me?, an adaptation of biographer Lee Israel’s memoir of the same name, Melissa McCarthyplays the broke, lonely, and wickedly smart Israel, who teams up with Richard E. Grant’s street-smart mischief-maker, Jack Hock, in a literary forgery scheme. “Lee, she cared about what people thought of her work and her writing, but in terms of people liking her, she had no time for it,” McCarthy said. “Which is really an appealing thing for me. I thought that was wildly exciting.”
Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone (The Favourite)
The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos made his first-ever trip to Telluride this year, while one of his leading ladies, Emma Stone,returned for her third time in a row. They arrived fresh from the Venice Film Festival, where The Favourite premiered to raves. The reception was equally enthusiastic in the Colorado mountains, where audiences were more than tickled by the bawdy hijinks in Queen Anne’s court. Stone, who received a special tribute from the festival this year, steps out of her contemporary comfort zone in the film (and dons a British accent) with striking results. Lanthimos has built a beautiful stage for three terrific actresses—joining Stone in the scheming are Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman—to go for broke. The Favourite leaves Telluride looking like one of the crown jewels of Oscar season.
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