Recap of the 2024 Telluride Film Festival Awards: Scott Feinberg and Rebecca Keegan
In keeping with annual tradition, The Hollywood Reporter‘s executive editor (awards) Scott Feinberg and senior editor (film) Rebecca Keegan huddled at the end of this year’s Telluride Film Festival to discuss their Labor Day weekend in the Rockies. (Please note: THR will now be posting a written back-and-forth of this sort every month under the banner of ‘The Awards Pundits,’ with Feinberg, Keegan, deputy awards editor Beatrice Verhoeven and senior awards editor Steven Zeitchik all participating.)
FEINBERG Not to sound like Saturday Night Live‘s Stefon, but the 2024 edition of Telluride seemingly had everything — or, at least, everyone. There was fake Donald Trump (The Apprentice‘s Sebastian Stan) and real Jack Smith (flanked by three Secret Service agents, the special counsel investigating Trump was here to support wife Katy Chevigny‘s film The Easy Kind); a guy who made a movie about SNL (Saturday Night‘s director Jason Reitman) and a real SNL alumnus (Bill Murray, here with a film of his own, The Friend); Hillary and Chelsea Clinton (EPs of the doc Zurawski v. Texas), James Carville (subject of the doc Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid) and Mary Matalin, and Trey Parker and Matt Stone (the South Park creators came to promote their doc ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!); plus, Angelina Jolie, Nobu, Martha Stewart, Pharrell, Selena Gomez, Robbie Williams, Will Ferrell (with Harper Steele, his co-subject in the doc Will & Harper), virtually all of Denzel Washington‘s family except for Denzel himself (in association with The Piano Lesson), a Navy Seal (Marcus Capone, subject of the doc In Waves and War), a giant dog (Bing, one of Murray’s costars in The Friend) and both Kendall and Roman Roy (The Apprentice‘s Jeremy Strong and A Real Pain‘s Kieran Culkin, respectively).