Breaking Baz: Alfonso Cuarón Considers How Acclaimed Seven-Hour Apple TV+ Drama ‘Disclaimer’ Qualifies For Oscar Consideration— Telluride Film Festival
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón is studying the possibility of creating a version of his acclaimed seven hour Apple TV+ production Disclaimer that can qualify for Academy Award consideration.
The phenomenal work directed and adapted by Cuarón from Renée Knight’s 2015 unputdownable novel, about a documentary filmmaker by the name of Catherine Ravenscroft, brilliantly played at different stages of her life by Leila George and Cate Blanchett, whose “mask has fallen” when she receives a manuscript of a supposedly fictional tale called The Perfect Stranger.
There’s something in that book that connects to an incident in Ravenscroft’s life that she has kept secret for two decades. The seven-part Apple TV+ drama received its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and was shown in two parts at the Telluride Film Festival over the Labor Day weekend.
I was able to watch the thriller — well, it’s at once a super-charged thriller and also an incendiary family drama — in one sitting ahead of traveling to Colorado.
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