Oscar fans have been everywhere at the Toronto International Film Festival for over 40 years. fire trucks (1981), American Beauty (1999) and green book (2018) all had their world premieres at TIFF and won Best Picture, as did many other films that passed the festival earlier. In fact, just two of the last 10 Best Picture winners of 2014 bird Man and 2021 CODAdone No On the screen of the most prominent festival north of the border and those eight doneSami, 2013 12 years slave, green book and the 2020s nomadic countryThey were awarded the TIFF People’s Choice Award for the first time.
This year’s 47th TIFF is full of Oscar hopes. Notable world premieres include Steven Spielbergsemiautobiographical fabelmanns (Universal), marking the conductor’s first trip to the festival; Two Netflix titles, glass onion, Ryan Johnsonis a continuation of knives outs good nursewhat couples Jessica Chastain s eddie redmayne (Redmayne will also participate in an “In Conversation” interview at the festival); a female king (Sony), in collaboration with Gina Prince Bythewood s Viola Davis (which will also be “in the conversation”); and cars for that Harry Styles (Amazon my police), Jennifer Lawrence (A24/Apple Cause) S Nicolas Cage (blanket Kasaban crossing).
inspection (A24), who opened the festival on Thursday night, could also be a contender, especially for the headliner. father jeremy.
Toronto also hosts a series of highly anticipated documentaries, including in his hand (Netflix), which will be supported by executive producers on the ground Hillary Clinton s Chelsea Clinton; and two portraits of Black Icon Apple, Sasha Jenkins‘ Louis Armstrong’s Black and Blue s Reginald Hudlinyea sydney. producer of the latter Oprah Winfrey will be in town to promote the film.
Titles that premiered at other festivals and arrive at TIFF with Oscar excitement include English-language narrative films. Inisherin’s Banshees (search light), empire of light (search light), Life (Sony Classics), son (Sony Classics), winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes the triangle of sadness (neon), Format (A24), women are talking (RU) and Wonderful (Netflix); Projects in languages other than English All is quiet on the western front (Netflix), Hall (neon), Body (IFC), decision to leave (MUBI), EO (Janus), land of god (Janus), sacred spider (Utopia), Have a nice day (Sony Classics) and NMR (IFC); and documents All the beauty and the bloodshed (neon), Freedom on Fire: Ukraine’s fight for freedom (still looking for a US distributor), good night oops (Amazons), Moon Age daydream (Amazon) and The Return of Tanya Tucker (Sony Classics).
It is not by chance that the festival receives Taylor Swift for a live screening of his directorial debut short film Very good: the movieAlso a conversation with TIFF CEO Bailey Shrimp; This one jordan peele there will be a screening No, which has already toured theaters as part of the local IMAX festival; This one Damian Chazellefuture helmsman Babylon, will be in the “conversation” of the festival, with clips; The TIFF “Gala Tribute” on September 11th will be among the honorees everything everywhere at the same time Star michelle yoo, empire of light Writer/Director Sam Mendes, Format Star Brendan Fraser s my police The Ensemble: In fact, they’re all in serious contention for the Oscars and would love a good boost from TIFF.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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