CELEBRITY
EXCLUSIVE: Venice and Toronto Film Festival Lineups Raise Our Oscar Hopes: Hotly anticipated films like Joker: Folie à Deux and The Piano Lesson are mixed with some wild cards that could shake up awards season.
Venice and Toronto Film Festival Lineups Raise Our Oscar Hopes. Hotly anticipated films like Joker: Folie à Deux and The Piano Lesson are mixed with some wild cards that could shake up awards season.
Every July, we get our first sneak peek at some of the films that will debut this coming Oscar season. On Monday, the Toronto International Film Festival announced much of its main lineup, followed quickly on Tuesday by the Venice International Film Festival’s own star-studded lineup—and with a little detective work by the Awards Insider team, we can also use these announcements to deduce which films will have their world premieres at the Telluride Film Festival.
Rebecca Ford is the senior awards correspondent at Vanity Fair, covering awards season’s Emmy and Oscar contenders. She previously worked at The Hollywood Reporter as the senior awards editor and a film reporter. A past honoree of the Gold House A100 list and a board member of the LA Press Club, Rebecca lives in Los Angeles with her husband, daughter, and two cats. Follow her on Twitter.