Telluride Festival Lineup Includes ‘Nickel Boys,’ ‘The Piano Lesson’ and ‘Saturday Night’ With Tributes for Jacques Audiard and Saoirse Ronan
variety.comClayton Davis Senior Awards Editor The official lineup for the 51st Telluride Film Festival has been announced, unveiling a series of world premieres from awards hopefuls.
Highlights include Edward Berger’s religious thriller “Conclave,” RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” film adaptation, Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night,” Joshua Oppenheimer’s apocalyptic musical “The End,” and Malcolm Washington’s film adaptation of the August Wilson play “The Piano Lesson.” The Colorado-based festival will also honor three distinguished figures in cinema: four-time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan, who stars in and produced the drama “The Outrun”; three-time Oscar-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker; and French director Jacques Audiard, whose film “Emilia Pérez” will make its U.S.
debut after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won best actress for its stars Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz.
Among the U.S. debuts are several notable Cannes selections, including Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner “Anora,” Payal Kapadia’s runner-up “All We Imagine as Light,” Andrea Arnold’s “Bird” and Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig.” The festival will also feature the world premieres of musician biopics “Better Man,” which chronicles Robbie Williams’s life, and “Piece by Piece,” an animated music biopic about Pharrell Williams.
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