Danny Boyle’s ‘Steve Jobs’ is NYFF53’s Centerpiece Film: A Blessing or a Curse?

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Michael Fassbender sees NYFF53 in his future

The biopic of Apple founder and inventor Steve Jobs from director Danny Boyle and starring Michael Fassbender in the titular role will be the Centerpiece film of the 53rd New York Film Festival in September. Since 2010, the Centerpiece films of the festival has followed their runs with both high praise and Oscar nominations or sometimes with mediocre reviews and no Oscar attention at all. Where will Steve Jobs land?

2010: The Tempest (Costume Design)

2011: My Week with Marilyn (Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor)

2012: Not Fade Away (zero nominations)

2013: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (zero nominations)

2014: Inherent Vice (Costume Design, Adapted Screenplay)

A mixed bag but it seems that with the pedigree behind Steve Jobs (director Danny Boyle’s Oscar win for Slumdog Millionaire, writer Aaron Sorkin’s Oscar win for The Social Network, Kate Winslet’s Oscar win for The Reader, Fassbender an Oscar nominee for 12 Years a Slave) it seems like its headed to a better track than the last five years.

Steve Jobs opens on October 9th from Universal Pictures.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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